I remembered the turn the calendar over at about 2pm this afternoon, apparently it is November. I know it is November as last night it sounded like the zombie apocalypse was in full flow: there was a lot of treat or treating going on.....
I am enjoy the Ipomoea lobata that is escaping over the side fence from the back to the front. Whilst it was a late flowerer it is a very welcome flowerer and I shall attempt to replicate this next year.
The hanging basket is doing very well. I have fed it a couple of times and it is growing beautifully.
and bulbs are starting to emerge in the side lawn. I mowed around them and will not mow this lawn again until June next year.
The Salvia ulginosa is sprawly and straggly
and a true blue. I adore this plant, adore it.
and this is growing self-sown in the border. I hope it gets through the winter. I grew milk thistle some years ago, and this has just popped up.
As I wander around to the back garden the relatively newly bought Amicia zygomeris is flowering. This makes me very happy. The previous one I had planted in the garden for more than ten years never flowered. I must have put it in the wrong place. It did not re-emerge this Spring so I am hoping that this replacement will thrive. It is still in a pot at the moment. I may plant it out next Spring after overwintering it some where out of the worst of the weather.
The ornamental cardoon is at its fluffy seed head stage. I love this stage, I love all stages of this plant. I like to think in the Spring that birds will use the fluff in their nests.
I gave the lawns a cut before taking these photos, this is rare for me, I usually photograph first then mow which is a bit silly really. The lawn is now fabulously green again with no signs of the summer's drought. The borders still have some colour.
I have planted three Salvia ulginosas in the Pond Border. Have I mentioned I adore this plant? I am looking forward to its sprawly blueness making its presence felt next year.
I have also planted three dark red/purple heucheras, bought on a recent trip to the North Yorkshire coast. I have big hopes for these heucheras.
The Euphorbia mellifera is still too big, but it is too late to cut it back this year, so in the Spring.....
The standard wisteria has rather lovely autumn colour. I don't think I have ever noticed this previously. That is shame on me.
I pruned the pleached hornbeams yesterday. I did not prune them well, but they are pruned and I feel like I need a medal as ladder work is never my favourite work.
I cut back some self-sown viburnams that had placed themselves in front of the pleached hedge. I think I have reclaimed four feet of border and it made the hedge pruning so much easier. They just sort of appeared, several feet high, over night....
The Cornus mas is also too close to the pleached hedge and whilst it will get pruned, it will not be removed. I am very fond of it. Admittedly I don't think I quite understood how big it would get when I planted it.
The Medlar tree is devoid of medlars. I am pretty sure it was covered in them last week, but today there are none. Squirrels - j'accuse!
The Hydrangea querifolia is looking magnificent. The autumn colour is always good.
I am fairly sure that this Cornus is dead. It does not look well. I will leave it until the Spring but I am not holding my breath.
I had thought that this ornamental cherry was dead, another victim of this year's drought - but lo' there is hope.
The beech pillars are starting to take their autumn colour. They were pruned a few weeks ago and look good at the moment.
and the other ginkgo is just that little bit more yellow day by day.
The Acer Orange Dream is looking wonderful this year. It was planted probably fifteen or so years ago as a 9cm plant. Look at it now! Wonderful.
Natasha and Elsie are in their gothic phase.
and look - snowdrops!
It is hard to see water in the pond, it is about half full I think. It does need clearing - I will, one day.
Until then
Take care and be kind
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