Thread by @Hal_Duncan

Today in #Rakesden...

The clematis is loving the iron frame.

The salad burnet is coming back a treat, even putting up flowers to work nicely with the hydrangea and the heuchera.

I'm liking the combo of sage and self heal too, happy to have the latter spreading in between the crocosmia and heuchera and achillea as ground cover.

Herb robert swathing the strawberry patch. The weeds do seem to have kept the strawberries hidden, though the weather seems to be less to their liking than the scorching sun of 2018. They're ripening more erratically, less of a bright red bounty just suddenly there.

Letting the herb robert swathe the bugle too while it goes through its brown phase. Started snipping off the seed heads of the latter that have done their thing, and already there's signs of new green.

I have no idea if I'm havering, but my theory is that the herb robert's a nice sunshade for the bugle. They seem to get on, the bugle that's gone to seed & looks full-on autumnal quietly revivifying beneath the herb robert, which is so shallowly rooted it doesn't seem to compete.

So by the time the herb robert has gone to seed and can just be cleared, if memory serves, the bugle is back to looking healthy in its nice dark green lushness. From the looks of it, the cyclamen also under the herb robert is also happily putting on its new growth.

I have another batch of nettle juice brewing for the bugle and cyclamen in that corner of Undercherry that's properly under the cherry, hoping to get the woodlandy ground cover aesthetic really knitted together for winter and next spring.