Well Autumn is truly upon us now. The Colchicums are flowering, the leaves are falling and the clocks went back an hour last night. I’ve always enjoyed Autumn, just as I do Spring. I remember as a child one of the highlights of the season was raking up huge piles of beech leaves and jumping into them. For some reason autumn leaves always seem to be damp these days so not conducive to jumping in.
Hugh’s Border is slowly losing its foliage and preparing for winter but many of the plants are deciduous so some interest will remain through the winter. Come early spring the snowdrops will flower and if I remember rightly some narcissus.
I’m including some photos of the wider view mainly because I have treated myself to a wide-angle lens ahead of my trip to Japan in a week’s time. We will be doing a lot of traveling to temples, castles and into the wider landscape so I thought a wide-angle lens would be a worthwhile investment – well that’s the excuse I am making to myself! The photos on this post are all with the new lens and it means I can show you the wider garden view so the different bits make more sense and you soon realize just how small the garden is and inevitably how much it slopes.
Oh and you are probably spotted the large timber scattered around. These are to replace some of the risers on the steps from the patio and also to provide a more definitive edge to the bottom of the Big Border. Work has started now that many of the plants are being cut back and there is less chance of damage from large feet. The aim is to get the new hard landscaping completed over the winter before my spring bulbs start making life more challenging for the landscaper.
Its interesting looking at these photos how much color there is still in the garden and how much of it comes from foliage as opposed to flowers – reinforcement of my view that if you get the foliage right the flower are just the icing on the cake.
Anyone is welcome to join in with the End of Month meme. You can use it to follow a specific part of the garden through the year or to give your readers a tour of the whole garden – whatever works for you. I like to follow one area through the year as it helps me to be more critical of the space and make improvements. All I ask is that you leave a link to your post in the comments box below and link back to this post in yours – that way everyone can connect.
