October in My Garden...

Yes, but the swan dies after its sung and your plants will come back in glory again next year!

Stera that is true, some will be the same plants but they will be next years flowers, well hopefully, not these though, the ones that struggled to survive and produce the lovely flowers I'm looking out the window at....LOL.X

So lovely to see so many flowers still in your garden, Lincs! 👏 😀

I've started ringing the changes on the balcony & most of the summer planting has been removed from the railings & put in the mini-greenhouse or brought into the kitchen for the winter. There are still others that will be thrown away but I'm waiting to get some more Pansies this weekend. 😀 I did plant some Pansies in pots but there are not nearly enough - I still need at least another 40 or 50 yet!

Thankyou Balc... That sounds a lot of plants but remembering how colourful your balcony looks when in bloom I'm not surprised at you needing more, I love pansies and viola's, do you use the trailing pansies, I tried to get some, didn't have any around here so unless I buy online I'm out of luck...

I always like to look round your garden Sue!
I like green in the garden, but it's strange that your ferns are turning brown!
Our ferns didn't even die die last winter and stayed green which was unusual.
I love your pond and all the little animals around it!
My rudbeckias are still going strong but my antirhinums didn't do much at all, but I think I put them too far back in the border.
Never mind..a lesson learnt!

Gosh a garden of 2 halves indeed. Both look lovely though.

No, I've never grown trailing Pansies, Lincs! Like you I've never seen them for sale except on the internet! I'm always very wary about buying plants, especially bedding plants, online. I've bought seeds but never plants or bulbs.

Strange as this may seem, my tropicals are the last to succumb to the bite of frosty temperatures. My hibiscus is still blooming and my mandevilla vines are still in full bloom. Rudebaka, dahlias, etc. are still flowering. My only chores left are to blow off the leaves falling on my Zen Garden and to place the now adequately grown fish in my fish nursery into the fish pond. Lincs, does the upper part of your garden get the first exposure to the morning sun? Reason why I ask this is that everything in flower in my garden gets hit with the first rays of the sun thus limiting the time that they are exposed to damaging frost.

Seaburn thankyou, the pics were all taken within 10mins , I do have more light down the bottom since removing the willow and those old conifers, sadly that lost the protection for the acers though but it was needs must as they were becoming unstable...

I do buy online Balc but only from tried and tested suppliers, same ones I've used for years...

L'strife I'm lucky like that also, it bursts forth within an hour of sunrise....We hardly had any frost last year, then it was very late winter, nearly springtime, some flowers never stopped, I'm hoping the same happens again, the roses are all producing new buds, they think they've already had their sleep whilst not getting any rain, I know that might be too much to hope for though, lol....

Loved the wander around you garden so much to see colourful and peaceful 🙂