Well, after some growth and some heavy rain it turned into a very laid-back explosion.
The alchemilla flowers got tired and decided to lie down, bringing the geraniums and phlox down (for a change). Gaah. The stalks showed no sign of resuming an upright posture even when dry(ish) and were basically getting smushed against the ground.
As I'm using the past tense you'll have guessed that I took action by removing the heaviest alchemilla flowers - I started out by cutting them all off, then realised it was too much and changed my strategy to thinning, but that wasn't much better, just the worst of both worlds.
The flowerbed now looks like a particularly shoddy explosion that someone half-heartedly tried to tidy up but made it worse.
What should I do? Cut everything off? Cut some things off? Dig the bloody thing up and plant boring but well-behaved bushes?
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