Autumn Swansong in my Garden

Aww...what a lovely blog Sid! I really enjoyed having a nosey round your garden. It still looks great, and very colourful :)

P.S. Hope you feel better soon xx

Sid, your garden looks really lovely :-))))
You still have lots of colour left too, quite a few of our
gardens are hanging onto summer with their flowers ....
...Little Birtie's gorgeous !
I want her !!!

Lovely blog Sid - get well soon!

Its amazing how much colour there still is in the garden.You have some lovely plants and a what a bonny cat.

Looks remarkably tidy Sid considering you been confined indoors .. hope this means sypmtoms subsiding and you re on the mend.

Lovely garden with some great plants and colours .

Di's right that is a brilliant blog Sid, wonderful pics, wonderful plants and wonderful Birtie. What a treat. You have so many interesting plants and so much colour still, my Cosmos is just about gone. Don't blame you for going back to the Azalea, it's lovely and so is that Cotinus - I might have to find a space for one of those somewhere! I hope you're on the mend now, give Birtie a cuddle from me. :o))

Gad you're a true Brit, Bulldog spirit and all that. You must be feeling rough though. I really like your garden and as you say it's still full of colour, interest too. Too many pics to comment on bit suffice to say I like them all. I'll take a rain check on commenting on the colour of the fence, lol. except to say that I too chose that colour and went over it again with a darker colour. I enjoyed reading your blog, like your sense of humour.

I hope you're feeling better now. Bertie is lovely :o) My satellite fuchsiais flowering now. It's got unusual flowers. Don't worry about the path. It looks natural in autumn with leaves on it.

I agree Hywel, i liked it like that !

lovely garden hope you are soon better Birtie looks a great campanian lovely socks he has.

Glad you felt up to wandering around your lovely garden - great photos and still so much colour. Birtie is a star! Hope you are completely well very soon.

Lovely photos Sid, hope the dreaded bug leaves you soon.

Thanks for the trip around your garden Sid, you have some smashing plants there and they are providing a lot of colour, this year they seem to be lasting so well and thats an added bonus, especially like the black and white plant, he`s a cute one. Pleased you are feeling better,take care.

Great blog Sid...hope you are better tonight. What's the blue flower behind your fennel? Birtie is a little like my Phoebe.

Hi Sid... Hope you are feeling better...
Is that a neighbour's fence which is orange ?
It seems to blend in well with your plant colours :o)
Lovely photos...Well done.

Enjoyed your blog Sid and the tour round your lovely colourful garden .together with comentary...Hope you are feeling better soon.
Lou
xx

PS...those leaves look very natural...artistically strewn round the garden...which is where they are supposed to be....lol

Hi Sid, I too enjoyed your blog and tour but do you really have time to be roaming around your garden with a camera?
Only joking of course. I think your garden is gorgeous and that fence is ..... well ........ it's ........... orange! ! ! Lol ;~)))

Hi Sid - oh dear! The dreaded swine flu strikes another GOY member! You take care - and get well soon!

I'm glad you felt well enough to amble round your garden and show us some lovely photos. :-))

Enjoyed your tour of your garden, hope you feeling better soon, my daughter went back to work Monday after getting over the swine flu.

Hope you get well soon. A garden as colourful and interesting will be a real tonic better than Tamiflu!!

brilliant and how good of bertie to come with you,
thats a lovely pic of him peeping out of the flower beds

lots of colour still

wish you better very soon

x x x

Lovely pics and still so much colour. Hope you are feeling much better today.

Lovely blog - great pics and lovely Birtie keeping you company - hope you feel better soon!

Thank you all for the lovely and comforting comments! You have all made me smile, which is sure to help me get better!

Louise - you can't have her!! lol

Hywel - glad to hear your Satellite is flowering for you - it's an odd shape isn't it...?!

Lincslass - do you mean my Felix domesticus 'Variegatus'?

Fluff - it's Verbena bonariensis - you can see it more clearly in the picture with the Eccremocarpus. Yes, Pheobe does look a little like my Birts :-)

TT - no, it's our fence, but it's attached to our neighbour's shed, which is falling down. So the fence will have to come down at some point, so I'm reluctant to do anything with it. Just trying to cover it up with plants! Had hoped the paint would fade a bit, but it must have been really good paint, unfortunately!

Ian - well, honestly! LOL

Thanks for all your kind wishes folks!

Sarah.

Enjoyed the stroll through your garden; with the commentary, I felt like I was listening to you explain it all to me. Hope you are feeling much better after the tour. It blessed my socks off.

You've still got lots of colour in the garden Sid.
Sorry to hear you've been ill :-)
Love your Stipa Gigantea.

And what's so wrong about orange young Digger me lad...I have orange decking....nothing remotely weird about that...just been tangoed that's all!

Wishing you a speedy recovery! Flying pigs, eh? Poor you! Just dont start grunting & growing a curly tail!
Lovely blog, great pics, shame about the fence! I would just HAVE to paint it!
Take it easy!

Feel better soon! Is the flying pig fever the same thing as swine flu? Never heard it called that...Your garden looks great! Wish I could have a bite of that apple...

Hi Sid, glad you're feeling well enough to stroll in the garden with your cat and camera. I enjoyed going along. I've been taking pix of my shrubs as they turn bright but my flowers and tomatos are a thing of summer long past. That is a very impressive pepper! Fell in love with Birtie during our stroll. Love her expressive face.

What a beautiful and varied garden you have. Glad it's cheering you up and really hope you're back to strength soon. Don't bother sweeping up quite all the leaves, life's too short!
Lovely blog Sid : )

glad you're feeling well enough to take a walk round your garden, it's beautiful out there, no wonder you didn't want to stay indoors :)

Some folk think that come October, "it's all over" well judging by the colour in your pics and today's weather forecast, it will be quit a while before we can say "it is now" I can well remember when the October frosts would cut everything down on a regular basis but recently the winters are getting shorter which means more time in our gardens. Can't be bad.

Your garden is lovely Sid. Especially the Azalea ! Birtie is a babe !! Hope you're feeling better today :-)))

excellent blog, thanks for showing us around your garden.

Thank you for all the kind comments! Still got a cough, but feeling much better now and back at work today - Boo-Hoo!

Madperth - I'll try not to LOL

Raquel - Flying Pig Fever is what you get when Bird Flu mutates with Swine Flu lol

Weeds - I know! That pepper is a meal in itself! x-) Birtie is my Best Girl - but I don't tell her so in case she gets big-headed ;-)

Avis - I will have to check my book on propagation and get back to you on that one! It didn't produce any viable seed last year, but it did the year before and I managed to germinate 2 seeds - one died, but the other did well and I have a healthy young plant that will flower......one day!

So glad to get to the end of the comments and find you well Sarah..goodness..I did love the walk through your garden..what a pretty garden..I enjoyed it all..! :) and Birtie was a big help to you I could tell..and has been a big help in curing you of your FPF...so glad you are ok..
xxx ~Cat

LOL

Thanks Cat! I'm well and dandy again now....well just about....and about as well and dandy as I ever was....cough...sneeeeezse...cough.....grooooaaaannnn.... Birtie has been very helpful in chasing away all those flying pigs and cuddled up to me and did her hotwaterbottle bit when I was feeling poorly ;-)

really enjoyed a peek in your garden sid, hope your feeling alot better soon, lovely to get some fresh air i bet, birtie is so cute bless him, anyway lots of lovely colours still :o)

Hope you get better soon, your blog was lovely especially the wonderful colours you have a mixture some autumn some left from summer, love the roses and dahlias and Bertie too so cute.

Lovely stroll round your autumn garden. Birtie is a real sweetie. Some pussy cats like to stroll around with you and keep you company when you are not well.. Must check out the Azalia Glowing Embers. Hope the flu doesn't linger much longer.

Thanks for your nice comments San, Morgana and Dorjac :-)

Your welcome Sid

A month late & a dollar short, but worth catching up on your autumn display. Pulmonaria Diana Clare caught my eye so I had to strain to see the fuchsia! Glowing Embers takes off the chill & went in my little book. Thanks for making your "almost last act" photographs of the garden & glad you're better after the beach.

Thanks Orgratis :-) That Pulmonaria is a little stunner isn't she! Can't wait to see what the flowers look like in the spring.