Liquidambar

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This is an early November journal about the colours of autumn in the Horniman Museum Gardens. Most captures are taken between 7:30 and 9:30am when leaf blowing around the park takes place. I often get distracted, but always get the job done.

Sorry Indian Bean Tree, I have fallen in love with something new.

LIQUIDAMBAR STYRACIFLUA

Isn’t she beautiful?

Let’s dive into all those photos.

She lives next to a cherry plum; Prunus cerasifera.

And she’s getting naked.

Enough about her. Here’s the mulberry in the yard:

Our swamp cypresses are changing colour:

And swishing off the rain:

There are still many paths to be blown:

Some are yellow:

And some have squirrels, burying acorns:

It’s been so wet recently. Wet and mild.

Pruning the avenue has been completed. Now a little maintenance of the museum frontage, where there are some lovely myrtles with sapphire berries:

Under a large loquat:

And we tidied up the towering phormiums. Now to wait for new flower spikes next year.

Living in the heart of a phormium was this eight-legged creature:

And of course the damp spell has brought about many clusters of mushrooms:

And what better way to end a Friday…

…than two lorry-loads of plants?

Bring on Monday!

• 5 Nov, 2011
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