My Autumn Garden.........

~ great ~Lots of flowers still and just starting to turn Autumnal ~I don't particularly want to rush into winter frosts yet~ we haven't had any either thank goodness!

Lovely garden and i love your plants :-))

I know what you mean about the cold Arlene... but I just love the autumn colours and you don't get them without a proper frost.... just one would be nice, enought to turn everything red, then go back to being warm again...so i can go out and enjoy it....

Thaks Louise

nice to have a walk round your autumn garden ang. but im not liking the cold thats coming thats for sure, just cant wait for spring,your garden still looks good now :o))

~as long as it isn't a heavy one!I still have buds and flowers opening on a couple of clematis and a heavy frost will probably see them go brown!

Lovely pics Ang...
What is the tree in the 15th photo down, below your word Spider ?... thanks :o)

looks like lots is still going on in your garden, looks great!

Your garden looks great - frost or no frost, Angie! Thanks for the tour. There really are signs of autumn when you look for them - I should know! I've been head first bottom up in the border rescuing plants from drowning in poplar leaves this afternoon. (Don't try to picture the scene, though, please! LOL).

Oh, and that Dahlia is a stunner! :-))

Looks fab Ang its changed so much :)

What lovely pix. Angie. I sometimes think we can be in too much of a hurry to 'put the garden to bed' that we miss seeing things.

lovely to walk round your garden Angie I could have stayed longer its so pretty.

Looks as good in the autumn as in the summer wonderful flowering plants still and love the Phormium its gorgous lovely colour it's turned.

oh San and Arlene..... everything in its season guys... you are suposed to be gardeners, dealing with the cold is all part of it i'm affraid..anyway this is not cold...do you remeber last winter???.... and it is a Salix TT, the common name is 'Falmingo Tree' it also has catkins in the spring, have a look on my garden page, loads more info and pic's...
And thanks all for so many nice comments, yes it has changed a lot since this time last year, do you remeber I wrote several blogs at the begining of the year, on all the changes i made, i think they have improved the garden really well...and Spritz...now i have the image in my head lol.... as long as you had fun i gues....

~ yes Angie I am fraid it's because I remember -8 and freezing ice and my hubby breaking his leg in three places that I would prefer if it freezes later ~ it still is mild here with quite high temperatures but damp or wet~we have had quite a lot of rain.
Maybe now is the time to order those things with spikes you put over your boots!

Forward thinking, always a good idea Arlene, sorry to hear about your hubby, i am never very fond of the icy mornings to be honest, i don't mind the cold it is the danger factor on the roads and paths especially now i will be walking with Brooke to school every morning, can be very dangerous can't it. but the cold weather i do quite like, it makes every thing feel clean and coming in from the cold into a nice warm house is nice.... and not forgetting Christmas! :D

Totally agree about the roads comment.
In the winter months i start work later in the hope that the 'danger factor' has passed/thawed a bit by 9.30 when i'm on them !!!

I hate icy and Fog too but I have noticed that we dont get the fogs down here that we use to?

mmm thats a good option Louise, your lucky to have it, i wonder if Brookes teacher would mind if i took her in a 10am lol...no i don't think so.... never mind will have to continue the skating routine with her lol.... and we have had fog last few days Drc did you get it? not freezing though...

No fog here at all damp and mild still.

it is still damp and mild but last two mornings thick fog first thing, soon cleared up though was sunny yesterday,,,, not so much today... bit gloomy looking out there

nice to see you back on here..... glad you found your camera....your garden is looking lovely..........

thanks Holly... :D

Thanks for the tour and welcome back. It all looks lovely still.

thanks i am glad i managed to find my camera... i have lots more photo's now to bore you all with lol...

Good - look forward to seeing them :-)

you might regret saying that Moon grower... do you know how many i often load all at once... usually without comments or even lables/titles for a few days lol.... i am always being told off for it! lol :D

Good to have you back, great pics, we havnt much autumn colour, it is still too warm here, the leaves are falling before that can change their colour.

thanks DD2 nice to be back, although i just don't get the same amount of time for this i used to, i will still be around here and there..... and i know just what you mean... i have lots of leaf fall but no orange or red anywhere in the garden there is a cherry tree an apple, a rhus several acers and they are all yellow or brown :-( never mind i managed to get some autumness with this other stuff glad you enjoyed.... i am off to collect some of the fallen leaves in a mo... both me and Brooke have the dreaded swine flu we are over the worst - i think but still within the 10 days so are confined in the house... i thought we could do some autumn leaf rubbing pictures today.....

Oh dear sorry to hear you are both poorly, hope you will be feeling better soon, at least you will be ok for Christmas if that is any consolation?

thanks Dd2 but not necessarly, this is the second time we have had it, apparently it has mutated and now there are so many different strians of it that any cold or flu is probably linked with it... we are both over the worst but still spreading germs so staying in for a few more days so as not to spread it around.... just as well looking at how the weather has been.....

Poor things. :-(( Get well soon, both of you!

sniff, sneeze cough cough.... thanks x

your garden looks lovely :))

thanks Grindle

Not really a cheat to have plants that shine all year, with different contrasts as the seasons change --- just excellent planning on your part! Love that Jester. Hope you all feel better soon, maybe drinking some of that elderberry extract you no doubt put up in your "spare" time...

thanks Orgratis, :-)

Enjoyed your autumn garden tour Majeek, I had the salix flamingo in my old garden, but lost it. I love it but found it to be but a little tender. Do you have to protect it at all in the winter?

hi Bornagain, to be honest no, i have 2 of them a standard and a bush type and i don't protect either of them, this will be their third year without any problems, i notice you are in the middlands, maybe this is why, i am just outside of London, why not try again and protect with fleese for the winter?

I've seen a bargain one on ebay so I may :-)