Summer is a bit more settled and "quiet": your wild garden does not need the proceedings that characterize preliminary periods such as spring and autumn. However, some maintenance work is still needed even in this interval. Here are some tips:
- Direct your creepers and secure them on proper holders.
- Cut dry flowers: you will give the plant new life-force and more opportunities to produce new flowers.
- This is the right time to harvest the seeds of the plants after the decay: you will sow again the following year.
- Do not trim plants and bushes in summer: you may kill and damage eggs and chrysalises.
- Let the grass grow more than usual (5-9 cm).
- Water the new plants, paying particular attention to those in pot which, living in a more restricted space and with a limited quantity of soil, seek to dry up more frequently.
- Remove some of the excess aquatic plants in the pond. Remember: do not throw them away, but leave them wet on the ground near the water. In this way, you will give any animals the chance to come back to the pond.
- Install a bowl full of water in the garden, so the birds can drink. If in this period is full of insects everywhere, it’s not the same for water.
