August was spent looking after my flowers, dead heading the dahlia's which just looked stunning, albeit a few weeks too early. I have been dead heading in the hope that new buds will arrive and open in time for my big day this Saturday.

My sweetpeas which were very slow to start, (well wasn't everything) were flowering their little socks off and I was cutting them every week and filling the house with the most gorgeous scent.

With the lovely warm weather this week, it has just been too much for the sweetpeas and one plant has given up the ghost but I still have high hopes for some sweetpeas adorning my wedding table.

My chrysanthumums on the other hand are no where near ready but my wonderful florist is helping me out with some and I shall look forward to cutting mine and bringing them in doors in the autumn.

When watching Gardeners' World a few weeks ago, Monty was telling us about his greenhouse tomatoes and how the leaves had started to curl but he wasn't worried because blight, he said, doesn't affect greenhouse tomatoes. A few alarm bells rung in my head when I saw the state of his tomatoes and thought oh dear, I think I know what's coming next. 

The following week, he gave us the news that his greenhouse tomatoes had been struck by the dreaded blight. My heart went out to him, it's so upsetting when you have nurtured your little seedlings, thinking to yourself, it doesn't matter what the weather throws at us, we will be fine with our greenhouse tomatoes, then bam! they turn all pathetic then the black stems arrive.

Thankfully my other row of tomatoes were not affected at all and we are harvesting the most delicious tomatoes and my poblano chillies have room to grow and are looking fabulous!

Where I haven't grown too many vegetables this year, my butternut squash has had the room to spread and the leaves are looking so green, which is unheard of at this time of year. I am hoping the few fruits I have will have time to rippen off - we'll see.

I have netted my sprouts which is a good job because the garden is now full of cabbage whites, in fact the beautiful weather this week has bought out the insects which is a wonderful sight and just in time for my wedding in a Dorset orchard - I am so grateful and it's just what I ordered!