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A Bank Holiday weekend and Chantal and I have agreed that she will cover the office on Monday while I have done Saturday and Sunday.

Its been all very quiet and what with one thing and another I felt in need of a little gardening therapy. We have a 25 yard path running from the garden centre's car park to the fountain in front of our office. Either side are alternating dwarf hedges of  Santolina or Lavender with narrow beds which I plant with annual bedding. I have trimmed all the hedges (including the Box hedges in front of the office) and cleared the beds ready for planting with Pansies next week. Finally the approach to the office is looking professional and tidy again!

The idea with the hedges is to encourage a little regrowth prior to the first frosts. I always push my luck by cutting back as far as I dare, sometimes well into old growth, or clients would never get down the path. I run the risk of getting no more growth at all but mostly get away with it, although at home I have killed portions of Rosemary hedge doing the same thing a little too late in the year.

As at home, the rains have encouraged some plants to flower again: the Roses are doing especially well. Otherwise colour is provided by some late-flowering herbacious plants like Aster, Anemone and others beginning with 'A'.

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