This year the garden has really taken a bashing

Oh kittylester that is so pretty.

This was my new border yesterday...it was all grass in March, I took up the turf, planted it and this is the result.

This morning it's a wet mess and blown to bits. Hoping if I do the same as you WW2 and cut it back it will come back again. If not, there's always next year.

We’ve had a terrible summer and looking at the forecast nothing better for the following couple of weeks.

Today gusts up to 50+ miles an hour.

Still good to know you up north are having a good summer.

You've been unlucky with the weather, Wwmk2. After a very chilly start everything in my garden just romped away; I've never known it to grow so vigorously. But we missed a lot of the rain and wind that you lot got in the south. It's raining here now, but not in a damaging way and I'm glad of it because we've had a long dry spell.

It's not often that the weather up here is better than the weather down there...

Had a lovely first flush of roses totally ruined by the rain and still sulking. Plants bashed despite having supports. Looked like the Somme in places. Then the heatwave. Then the wind. I’ve done a lot of cutting back. Thank goodness for the hydrangeas which enjoyed the rain, but so did the weeds. How on earth do people who open their gardens cope?

The bindweed is loving it as are all the little brambles coming from nowhere at 0 to 6ft in a day!

Add in rabbits

Ours had had periods of looking good but not so many.