JUST who am I kidding ....... ?
Happy New Year everyone! This compound image was taken up at my VERY blustery plot on January first this year. You can see that it wasn't really THAT cold, quite possible to wear flip flops darling .............. hmmmmmmm much hilarity but not alot of gardening went on
the autumn clear up begins ......... same day as the wonderful sun in the last post, clouds are hovering, weeds are being pulled, edges are being revealed .......... AND I do love the peppery smell of the nasturtiums as I pull up their soggy remains
Today is Nov 14th, the late autumn sun has been shining and gently warming my back while I was working. BUT I was stopped in my clearing up tracks by this totally amazing chrysanthemum sweetly smiling in the sunlight and whose colour is quite luscious and wondrous. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
Agrostis 'fibre optics' the best ever filler for late summer and autumn. It grows and re-grows, looks stunning with everything. Looks stunning on its own. Actually if I could wear it I would ....
Here are the little wonders ready to be planted! A bunch of these flowers to anyone who can tell me, within 50 either way, how many bulbs there are ............
So far this October the weather has been so wonderfully benign that even the summer flowering Romneya (tree poppy) had a single bloom on it. You can tell its late in the year though by the light of the background exposure. And of course the ever faithful cosmos have just kept on flowering and flowering and get stronger and last longer as the days get cooler and nghts get longer. QUITE amazing.
Wonderful late summer sun encouraging these amazing cosmos to keep on flowering. Much to the joy of the bees and of me toooooooo .....
The Shoo Fly plant. This is my current fav and is the most entrancing thing. You have to look at it over and again, and the more you do the more intriguing it is.
Picture by Ben of www.caffe-mobile.co.uk who bought the flowers for his coffee stall at the folk festival here in Cambridge last weekend.