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Autumn in the garden - 2.10.2012

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Good morning everyone – hope you are all still able to get out into your gardens and enjoy some autumnal colour. I walked up a very damp, with dew, garden this morning and it just seemed to glow out there. I just could not resist snapping the borders, beautiful colours, lovely atmosphere and very peaceful.

Hope you enjoy as much as I did:

Hanging baskets – filled yesterday with Heuchera and trailing Ivy – for a splash of colour over the next few months.

On the left side is the very big border in the middle of the garden, so colourful this year, the gaps have been filled in and the colour at the front with the Sedum and Asters is totally beautiful. Even the seed heads of the Lythrum are adding to the picture. To the right probably one of my favourite flowers (well especially at this time of year) Rudbekkia – Goldstrum, beginning to fade now a little but still holding on in there.

This photo shows the beginning of the raised border (used to be a veggie patch) much better with flowers and shrubs. lol
The Erysimum – Bowles Mauve has flowered all year and is just such a colourful addition to what used to be a dark and dismal area. I am so pleased I took it over for flowers, much nicer.

Next two pictures are of the woodland border, which I have been trying to develop and make it look more as if it is included in the garden, rather than the edge of the garden if you see what I mean. Well I know what I mean, it was just being left to its own devices and I was never happy with it. Made a grass pathway into it and it does look more like it is cared for now.

This is the Hosta from which I saved seeds and have grown into little Hostas, not looking too good though in their little pots, the damp and lack of sunshine has not been good for them. I was hoping that they would have got many more leaves than they have just now. I think they would have benefitted from being in a greenhouse over our horrible wet summer. Ah well I will move them into shelter over the winter and keep my fingers crossed that they come back in the spring.

Looking back from the top of the garden towards the cottage.

Back at the back door I looked over the garden and it glistened in the early morning light.


The walk was damp but lovely, hope you enjoyed, light has changed now and it is back to a darker and different atmosphere out there, so pleased I got out early and took these pictures. Hope you enjoyed and that the walk has not tired you out too much.

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Enjoyed my morning stroll oliveoil, gonna have a cup of coffee now. Love the shaping of the garden, ours is a long rectangle, but am trying to make it as interesting as i can.Hope there are many morning morning strolls :o)

2 Oct, 2012

 

Hi there, thank you for your lovely comments, I too am off now to find a coffee have been sat at this computer too long. Pleased to have met you. :O) Hope you enjoy your coffee. :O)

2 Oct, 2012

 

Lovely photos Olive, thanks for the stroll :o))

2 Oct, 2012

 

The garden looks really lovely Mum. Even though it has been a bad year, you still have loads of colour and it all looks really well-kept. Brilliant addition of the Heuchs. They are wonderful for their rich colours aren't they? Definitely winning plants. The Rudbeckia shines doens't it? and it all looks lush. I have to agree, Hostas have not been wonderful this year, in spite of their love of moisture. Strange.

2 Oct, 2012

 

Agree with Karen ... garden looks lovely :o)

2 Oct, 2012

 

A truly wonderful garden, lots of hard work gone into the planning and upkeep, you now have created a little bit of heaven ;0))

2 Oct, 2012

 

Thank you all :O) It has been quite a nice sunny day if a little bit on the breezy side. Bonus - washing dried - just been out and tidied some leaves away, that will be the next massive task, once the leaves start to fall I shall be busy collecting and barrowing. Ah well it is still green for the moment. Rain forecast for late afternoon and evening. Thanks again everyone so pleased you like the pictures. :O)

2 Oct, 2012

 

I managed to get a rose pruned. Poor thing, it was about 7' tall, no flowers or leaves on it at all, just lanky stems (black spot got all the leaves). I cut the whole lot down to about 9" and am hoping for the best. Summer Song, one of my favourites. I think it's had about six flowers on it this year....pathetic. ANyway, as I was saying, I managed to get one rose pruned before I was soaked. Suun is out again now though.

2 Oct, 2012

 

Not surprised you enjoyed your walk down the garden - it looks lovely

2 Oct, 2012

 

Your garden is really beautiful, Barbara. Mine is really battered about - I haven't been able to get out for almost a week and there's loads to do. We have had so much rain! Never mind - I'm sure it'll dry up eventually and a few hours will put it back to rights - or a bit closer, anyway! The colours in yours are really lovely - I love the view in the first photo.

2 Oct, 2012

 

I had a stiff neck yesterday, it was so painful. Much better this morning so am going to catch up on here. What a shame about the roses, lots of mine have got blackspot now. We didn't get heavy rain yesterday and the daytime was lovely weather. Think it is the same sort for today (weather that is).

Thank you Steragram glad you like it. :O)

Melchi I am still tidying up borders from the wet summer, they were not at their best because they were so wet. But we were the lucky ones here in Lincolnshire as we got very wet but not so many of us were flooded out like the poor people in Yorkshire and surrounding areas. It will eventually change and we shall be able to do more, my oh says November days are good usually, but I hate November, it is always dark and dismal. Hope you can get out today and enjoy some of your garden. Thanks for your lovely comments. :O)

3 Oct, 2012

 

Oh I do love your garden. I would never get fed up of looking at it. is the arbour seat at the bottom of the path new, or was it a new project ? I love the idea of Heucheras in baskets, I might pinch that idea from you. I would love to have more paths and less grass , but hubby won't hear of it.

3 Oct, 2012

 

Thank you Rose, that arbour seat was my last big project in the garden, done at springtime, it was so heavy putting it in place and moving slabs and digging out to get it level. My OH doesn't get an opinion in the garden as it is my garden, if I want grass out I get grass out. lol. it causes lots of hilarity as one of his friends always asks him if I have had planning permission to do things. lol. He is a groundsman (sportsfield) cuts grass and looks after cricket and football pitches for a living. He doesn't do anything with grass or plants at home. Quite understandable really and that suits me just fine, but sometimes I have to ask for help with lifting things. Climbing is a no no for me (I hate heights) so anything high up I get help with. I did manage this project though all by myself to my cost, my muscles hurt for weeks afterwards. lol.

4 Oct, 2012

 

ps: Rose you can copy the Heuchera idea with pleasure I stole it from somewhere else too. lol. think it might have been Gardeners World mag or programme just cannot remember now. lol.

4 Oct, 2012

 

I had to laugh at what you said about your husband's friend. My hubby would have a fit if I started to dig the lawn up. Every time I edge it and take a bit more! Mind you, one time , a head popped out the upstairs window saying, " anymore grass dug up then I'm leaving!" Hahaa!
You have done so well on your own with your garden. I'm impressed. The problem is that on a good day he can cut the grass and If I took it up, he would have nothing to do.
I'm definitely going to try the Heucharas in a basket. This is what is so good about this site. finding different ideas.

4 Oct, 2012

 

I agree Rose, so very useful for ideas and lots of helpful advice too if and when you need it. :O)

4 Oct, 2012

 

Your garden is just beautiful, Olive. I remember seeing the photos before you re-arranged it. It looked good then - but it's wonderful now. Well done, what a fine job you've done.
It's easy to see where Karen gets her green fingers from! :)

5 Oct, 2012

 

Oh thank you Karenfrance that is kind of you to say :O) I love my garden, have been out there this morning you would not believe how much rubbish I have taken out of only 1/3rd of a border. I don't know where it all comes from, must be all the rain we have had making it grow so fast. Hope you are getting some nice sunshine in your part of the world. :O)

5 Oct, 2012

 

I often consider the possibility of removing some of the grass (it's not much of a lawn, to be honest). As I am in sole charge of the garden, that is not a problem. I do wonder if I might just make things a bit too complicated, though. At least it is easy to maintain when it's under grass. One of these days, I'll come to a definite conclusion - then I'll just do it. But I'm not holding my breath till then...!

7 Oct, 2012

 

The removal of grass has been gradual, over a number of years, in my garden Melchi, little by little, usually enlarging borders which started out quite small, now are quite big lol. It used to take me a couple of hours to cut the grass when it was all grass and nothing much else, now it takes about half an hour, fiddly bits take much longer but it is much nicer (in my eyes) to see the plants and how it has developed into a cottage garden. It gets a little more grass taken out each year, as and when I find another plant which needs a good home. lol. When I started out on it I had no idea what it would turn out to look like, each year I see places that can be changed and altered and incorporated into the garden. It does keep me fairly well occupied and at this time of the year when plants are dying down for the winter it can be a long old task clearing out and getting it ready for spring. As we all know a garden is never ever finished as such it is just a work in progress, if you take out grass and are not happy with it you can always plant it back up again with grass seed or turf. I have done this too, made a couple of new grass pathways this year. You just have to be brave and go with the flow. lol. Happy Gardening xxx

7 Oct, 2012

 

Thanks, Barbara. You are quite right, of course!

9 Oct, 2012

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