Joseph Atkin's Aberglasney column
Aberglasney’s Head Gardener Joseph Atkin continues his weekly column in the South Wales Evening Post -
With September looming, the garden usually looks dry and a little tired but not this year.
The monsoon summer, which is not as much of a shock as it used to be, provides different types of challenges to other years.
This year, in our area anyway, the foliage is still green and the moisture lovers are more than happy.
This is not the same for the rest of the country many of the gardeners over the border are complaining of no rain. So these different conditions give different gardeners and plants advantages and disadvantages.
An important part of gardening is studying your plants to see how they have done in the conditions that you have.
I have spent a lot of time studying the new woodland garden we have created to see how different plants cope with the conditions.
This is really interesting as the soil in this area is really damp in fact the site has stayed wet all season. It ...