Found I had to stake those I planted too, Mike.
Doing serious cutting back and also dividing, reducing and adding to maintain the perennial diversity.
Yesterday.
Garden phlox left; all second bloom.
Thought we'd lost my favourite Helenium ('Feuersiegal') and then found a surviving scrap.
The flowers of the magenta 'Alma Pötschke', in the front garden, closed (first cold day for months).
The pink perennial chrysanthemum is 'Clara Curtis'.
