Gradually, the nights are drawing in and there is a faint hint of autumn on the wind. The beechnuts are falling along with the apples. The leaves won’t be far behind. I cut the bamboo down to half its size as it was beginning to dominate the back garden, I do hope I haven’t killed …
Summer onions out… Winter onions in. Still they come, young and oh so sweet! Even sweeter, the best I’ve ever tasted. First ever home grown apricots. The parsley has been particularly strong and flavoursome this year… and the Accidental Orchards’ underplanting of wild flowers is beginning to bloom. There have been mallows, cornflowers, love-in-a-mist and …
There’s a subtle scent of Autumn on the wind now, which is strange given how hot it’s been and how hot it still is. Beech leaves are already raining down and the climbing roses are forming hips, in preparation for the grand display. Such tiny roses, yet such lethal thorns. Rowan berries are ripe and …
Birds, branches and bedraggled beech nuts. Wilting hibiscus. Sodden leaves and boisterous dogs. Raised beds and bird sown yew tree. Entangled vines. Iris seed pods. Glowing dogwoods. Fading, papery hydrangeas. In other news… I’ve been out and about rather a lot recently, but my favourite’s are… when the “Whatever the Weather Girls” took themselves across …
Cosmos, grown from seed. I do enjoy cosmos, how it suits it’s name. In Greek, it means beautiful and ornamental, or “love flower” most apt. I rather like how these begonias and marigolds compliment each other. The marigolds just keep on going. I was collecting seed, but now I’m just composting the seed heads. This yellow …
