Is your backyard stuffed with dying vegetation due to this summer time’s excessive warmth or drought?
My persicaria seems like a bowl of crisps, the Virginia creeper’s leaves are limp, the veronicastrum is flagging and lots of leaves have brown suggestions.
So what can we do? I made a decision to ask an knowledgeable.
I visited the attractive Grade 2* Listed Borde Corridor Gardens in Sussex to speak to their head of horticulture, Harry Baldwin. Borde Hill Gardens has a number of collections of uncommon vegetation, together with over 80 ‘champion bushes’ and delightful borders, the most recent of which is designed by Chris Beardshaw.

Borde Hill’s lovely rose backyard. The backyard is open to the general public from February to November, so it has to look good all 12 months spherical.
Re-think the backyard to cease subsequent 12 months’s vegetation dying
Firstly, Harry suggests you take a look at …