I had hoped to add a video to this end-of-month report on the garden, but sadly it is not going to happen because Time, as always, is ‘of the essence’. Hey ho…let’s just get on with it then, because time, as you know….
We start as usual at the back of the house, looking across the paved area towards the sitooterie (above). Hanging over the table and chairs is the old pond liner removed from the reservoir of the stream, which I have hosed down and will store once it is dry, which won’t be any time soon – it would be a shame not to keep it ‘just in case’, as most of it is still perfectly serviceable. Below is the streamside grass and shrub border, with witch hazels grabbing attention as their foliage takes on their autumn colouring. Looking from the other direction, the three cornus on the left, beyond the apple tree, are now dropping their leaves and will soon display their distinctive stems.
The floor of the woodland is thick and crunchy with beech nut cases, dropped from our neighbour’s tree. It is too early for the snowdrops here, but nevertheless I will still add the large distinctive plant labels soon to supplement the usual small black ones, thus making it easier to spot where the bulbs will emerge in due course. At the far end of the woodland, from the bothy, we can look down over the bottom end of the garden before seeing the main borders from a viewpoint at the back of the shed. You can see I have now planted more carex in the pots in the sunken area.
Galloping through the woodland edge borders, we reach the grass border and two bold borders – I am itching to tidy up the latter two!
As you know, the cutting beds are now cleared other than the dahlias which, although bedraggled, continue to defy the lateness of the
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