Here at Ty Glyn Davis Trust’s Walled Garden we are making the most of an Indian Summer! The veg garden is starting to slow down now with the mad bean picking and courgette collecting calming down finally, giving us the time to turn our attention to other projects we have been waiting to do.

The terrace beds are in need of a re-vamp and we began this with help from HSBC to clear and re-plant one bed. Here’s how it looks now:

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Cleomes, Calendula and Penstemon putting on a show now.

A second bed has been replanted after clearing geranium and pineapple mint and replacing them with a more diverse mix of planting including Crocosmiia ‘Severn Sunrise’ with large apricot -peach blooms, Eryngium and lovely lemon Kniphofias ;

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Once again thanks to Cath, for her donations of gorgeous top quality plants to the garden.

The third bed to be replanted is just starting to be cleared, this bed was originally a lemon and blue themed bed, which we are hoping to re-instate. I have just begun clearing the geranium which has run riot in there and the Phygelius which, though it has happily layered itself throughout the whole bed, for some reason best known to itself generally provides a poor display. A piece of this Cape Fuschia has been moved as a trial by the Fig Trees in the hope it is happier there.

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Here is the before, watch this space for the after or come and look!

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Our new bench

in memory of our gardener Tommy Jones, now under the shelter before it’s final placement in the garden in Tommy’s favourite spot.

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Finally here is an

early morning glimpse of the garden,

when the air is still and the garden is quiet,

the sun comes up and reveals a riot,

of shape and texture, colour and hue,

growing here to be looked at by you.