November blog.

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I have been fairly busy in the garden this past week, having felt poorly for a few days following daughter’s wedding, just a cough and cold but it left me with a very painful back so the sensible thing to do was rest up for a while.

I had an idea of what I wanted to do in the way of tidying up the garden for Winter, not ‘putting the garden to bed’ as seems to be the fashion to say these days as I think that’s an impossibility!

Take a wander around my little garden to see what OH and I have achieved before the temperatures drop in the coming week.

Sedums were cut right down as they hadn’t looked great this year and the home made compost ( hard work getting that out of the Dalek bin) along with the spent soil from some pots of annuals were used as a mulch.

The day started with blue skies, no wind blowing and a temperature of nine degrees.

Between OH and myself we moved pots to the shelter of the vine, I looked back to last year and found we did the same and most of the plants survived.

There are a few Hydrangeas, grown from cuttings, that I shall give to a local charity for their plant sale next year. By the way, the bright green plastic watering can had a really good clean as it was pretty mucky, along with a snail blocking up the spout!

All of the Hostas are now in the unheated greenhouse, along with some Fuchsias that were planted in a little wooden wheelbarrow.

The opened bags of compost, top soil, ericaceous compost, Vermiculite etc. are now in one place.

It remains to be seen if any of these cuttings and seedings get through the Winter. I’m not very hopeful for them really.

The wooden table and chairs from the patio are now stored away for Winter, along with the glass topped table set. While we were doing that we saw a Magpie trying to reach the remaining grapes, it was far too big and clumsy and did not succeed.

At the base of one of the pergola supports an Aquilegia had self sown, the flowers are a lovely rich deep mauve so I have saved seeds from it. Fingers crossed they will germinate.

It may be November 17th but there is still a fair amount of colour in the garden …

The large Pittosporum is awaiting a haircut, but my tree man hasn’t been feeling well either, so it could be another couple of weeks for that job to be done.

I hope, wherever you may be in the world, that the weather treats you kindly this Winter.

• 17 Nov, 2024
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