Take a deep breath, pick up your clippers and shear these plants back right now.
July is a month when hot weather saps the energy of gardeners, but July-blooming plants are undaunted.
Chicory is a weedy looking late herb, but when it blooms it transforms itself with scores of small sky blue daisy like flowers.
The price one pays for this indulgence is that once something flowers it usually self seeds. Before long the garden's original design becomes blurred...