This afternoon the wind had died down, and it was pleasantly sunny. Finally, we got around to planting up the remaining two planters at the major cross-roads of Preston Circus, and filling the gaps in the two planters we planted back in May.

We’ve had terrible winds torturing plants for the last few days. We had to cancel the planting session on Friday because we feared the wind would destroy any newly planted plants. Sure enough, some of the Cosmos that had established well in the planters outside the Duke of York’s cinema had been broken and uprooted.

Calinbrachoa

We planted the two remaining planters with both annuals and our remaining perennials. There’s a ‘hot’ planter with reds, oranges and yellow – red hot pokers in the centre, tagetes dotted around, yellow and orange calibrachoa and nasturtium – just outside the Circus Circus.

Further down, in the middle of the lanes of traffic, we’ve planted pink and purple plants: pink and purple calibrachoa, pink petunia, lavender, hemerocallis, sage and verbena bonariensis. Now it’s about water … the planters have been liberally mulched, but with very little shade, they will need watering soon.