Just a few snaps for this Saturday’s selection.
- The twisted hazel is showing off it’s curly branches as the leaves fall away, and we’re planning to clear some space around this beautiful tree, so we can see more of it next year.
- The leaves have fallen from our neighbours copper beech, which means we can now see the other side of the valley and get a bit of borrowed landscape to enjoy.
- The vibrurnum that I planted in our fairly awkward ‘triangle’ by the deck is growing strongly and putting out a few flowers. Hopefully we will have a flowering shrubbery around here one day.
- Basket of fire chilli peppers in the greenhouse, next to the sweetpea seedlings. The chillis will come into the house soon, making room for the dahlia’s and a few tender plants to come into the greenhouse. Frost is forecast soon, so we are in the middle of some greenhouse shuffling to get ready for the cold weather.
- Leaves. My darling husband has collected buckets full of leaves from the lawn and the decks, and reckons there are at least a dozen different types of leaves in there. I’m assuming diversity in your leaf mulch must be a good thing, it’s usually far more helpful than homogeneity.
- Begonia flower – these brave little bedding plants, a few busy lizzies, and some nasturtiums are just about all that remain of the summer blooms. With a frost coming soon, we’re probably at the end of the year for the tender plants.
But I’m hopeful that the viburnum, cyclamen and winter pansies will keep going through the frosts. And there are some very hopeful looking buds on the hellebore!
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Have a lovely week
J xx
Those chillies look good! This is one of the plants on our wishlist for next year, too!
That is a very mature twisted hazel. The only hazels that I have seen that mature were the larger sort that produce nuts. Is a copper beech the same as a purple beech? I remember them as two different colors.