My apologies for missing the last couple of SOSs, the first week was because I was in Bristol with my daughter, she had had a nasty accident falling downstairs in her house, but is now on the mend and doing really well, nothing broken, thank goodness, but all the tendons in both knees have been torn, which is bad enough. Last Saturday I wandered round the garden and really there wasn’t anything worth photographing that you hadn’t seen before. Autumn has now really taken hold, the leaves are starting to change colour and it is much cooler first thing in the morning. This week I did manage to find a few things to photograph, so on with SOS.
Mahonia nitans Cabaret in full autumn glory, I think the leaves are this wonderful colour because of the summer drought.
A creeping geranium which thinks it has world domination in the front border. Each spring I pull most of it out but then am glad at this time of year that what I have left has woven itself through all the other plants and is flowering when most of the others have finished.
We have a bumper crop of seeds from the tree which is a cross between an oak and a copper beech, they are all over the drive making walking underneath rather difficult, must sweep them up.
Acer Osakazuki is changing, the colours are coming on nicely, maybe by next Saturday she will be in full autumn finery.
Lots of little berries on my Berberis atropurpurea Nana. A dwarf shrub with little berries for all my small furry mammals!
Fruit of the Aesculus tree or to those in the UK, conkers, fruit of the Horse Chestnut tree! The squirrels seem to enjoy planting them in my pots, they start growing in the most unlikely places, can be a bit of a problem when I have 4 Chestnut trees!
There we have my six for this week, very autumnal I think you would agree. A lot of tidying is now being done but still a lot more to tackle before it will look presentable once more. I haven’t really caught up with when I came out of hospital in March and wasn’t able to do much at all. I have heard of a lady gardener that just likes to do weeding, maybe a phone call is needed!
Thanks to Jim at Garden Ruminations for hosting, do pay him a visit to see other gardens from around the world.
Sorry to hear about your daughter, tendons can take longer to heal than a broken bone!
Your autumn garden looks lovely. Gardens always look untidy at this time of year (unless you have a full time gardener!)
Wishing your daughter a speedy recovery. Lots of autumnal loveliness in your six today. I remember walking on similar seeds of the beech trees as a child, on the way to cubs near the church hall – I can hear the crunch.
Oh my goodness! The color on the Mahonia foliage and berries is so vibrant. And all the other fall lovelies are quite impressive, too. Sorry to hear about your daughter’s accident–I hope her recovery will continue to speed along.