Usually Hypericum ‘Hidcote’ would have vivid yellow flowers through July and August. It’s a garden stalwart, widely sold and grown. But we’re getting day after day in the high 20s and low 30s centigrade, with no rain, and the garden is beginning to suffer. The grass is crispy brown (ok, not so unusual) and so are the Hypericum flowers. This isn’t something that has finished flowering: it seems to have been dried up and ‘preserved’ in full bloom. The shrub is in semi-shade.
Limestone Garden 