Lots of yellow flowers

Today I visited the RHS gardens at Wisley. I’ve not been for a couple of months so it was nice to see how the Hilltop Garden has developed this summer. Lots of yellow flowers including sunflowers, a very nice view as we were having coffee. ( but the queues for coffee have not improved)
The vegetables are looking very good as usual including some amazing large squashes,  but I did note one of the RHS workers watering with a hosepipe the whole time we were there. I guess they have to do that to show off all the varieties to the many visitors but not necessarily a good example to the rest of us who are being urged to restrict watering !  Southern Water have already imposed a hosepipe ban and Thames Water are thinking of doing so very soon.

We also sat in on an interesting short talk about the alder tree, we learnt a lot. There are short talks every Saturday in the Hilltop centre about trees.

I was surprised how many visitors were at Wisley before 10am there were even car park attendants directing traffic. I don’t usually go at the weekend. However once in the garden it was not too busy .

The M25 looked very busy and queues to get on it from the A3 so I’m glad we are not travelling far this weekend.