M Dyson considers the walled garden at Preston Manor has become “so overgrown ... you would need a scythe to cut a pathway through” (Letters, August 11).

Herbaceous gardens such as the walled garden require a great deal of work and this is not the best time of year for this type of garden as autumn seems to have come early and the summer flowers are largely over.

Maybe the regular gardener and some of the volunteer gardeners are away on holiday.

This is a real garden which reflects the changing seasons of springing up in full flower, dying back and lying low in winter.

A new garden designer must be at work as the former bunches of sticks known as roses on the vicarage bowling green have been replaced with an interesting array of colours, shapes and heights.

Could this person please get to work on the bedding plants alongside Preston Road – sheets of crude colours without shape or form.

Selma Montford Preston and Old Patcham Society, Clermont Road Brighton