I’d hoped to do a better job of juggling cooking in preparation for a weekend with visitors and putting together a blog post for Christina’s Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day meme, but I have failed – so apologies, this is a little rushed! I am more than usually obsessed with foliage at the moment, thanks to…
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My acer put out the red carpet for Autumn earlier last week, but since then the weather has been dark, damp, gloomy – and very windy. And then, suddenly, mid afternoon, we got sunshine and clear blue skies. I rushed in from the greenhouse to grab my camera, as I fear it may be the…
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For lots of stunning pictures celebrating Autumn check out Dave’s Fall Colour Project.
We had been promised 20C (68F) and bright sunshine. We got 17C (63F) and dull grey skies. We went anyway, en masse, 9 adults and two small boys. We all love Westonbirt Arboretum, and the autumn colours are famous world-wide. This trip, however, was more about playing hide-and-seek in the undergrowth, kicking up leaves, and…
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Autumn sunlight streaming through still-green silver birches. Seedlings thriving in the greenhouse. A Californian Poppy deciding to flower in October. The garden glowing in soft sunlight.