Night-scented stocks are finally dying off - haven't had any scent off them for 3-4 weeks now. Still flowering though. Not bad to get a 4-month flowering season off them! The caryopteris is doing its blue pom-pom bit (and attracting lots of bees) and the ceratostigma still has plenty of lovely blue flowers too. And the hawthorn and ribes are going lovely autumn colours.

The pink lilac which should flower again in late summer hasn't actually done anything - we think the late frosts confused it. Ah well.

Pruning needed though - need to tidy up the wisteria and forsythia before autumn gets its claws in too much.

Graham.