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!)
I am amazed at the speed of my daughter’s recovery Jude, but then she is working very hard at it after her operations. From a distance the garden doesn’t look too bad, but doesn’t bear close inspection!
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.
Thank you Graeme for your good wishes for my daughter, very kind. Yes, they certainly crunch don’t they, but not good when the old legs are still a bit wobbly!
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.
I love the colour on the Mahonia Beth, so unexpected, but then so was the drought this summer! My daughter is improving day by day, she can’t wait to be back driving again and working full time once more!
It must be a change to be nursing your daughter instead of the other way round! You garden certainly looks very autumnal – is the oak and horse chestnut a recognised cross? It’s not something I have heard of before
The accident happened at the end of August Cathy and this was my second visit, the first was when my daughter was in hospital just after her operation. In spite of having braces all down both legs she is quite mobile thank goodness, determined to recover as quickly as she can. The tree was bred to mark the wedding of Churchill to his American wife, the oak with a copper beech, I have mentioned it a few times in my posts.
Autumn is a wonderful time to see the leaves turning colour and the Japanese maple is a perfect example. I have 3 and can’t stop photographing them in autumn. Otherwise, I wish your daughter a very speedy recovery… That must have been painful
I’m the same with my Acers Fred, so tempting to photograph them all the time with each little change! My daughter’s accident was very painful, even after her operation. She is determined to get fit again as soon as possible and back to work full time as soon as possible.
Wishing your daughter well, she’s so determined that I’m sure she’ll make a full recovery.
Lovely autumn colours, I especially like the mahonia.
Thank you Helen, I’m sure my daughter will make a full recovery but she has been warned it will take a long time. Autumn is definitely here, the evidence is all around me!
Oh no. So sorry to read about your daughter’s accident. No bones broken, but she must be in pain with torn tendons – and something like that is such a frightening experience. Happy hear that she is healing. The Mahonia leaves are fabulous. I love when acers change colour at this time of year and your Acer Osakazuki is a beauty. My A. ‘Bloodgood’s’ leaves are dried out and horrible – there’s no recovery from that this year. You have already noted the problems with my Berberis, and I have to say that I really like your B. ‘atropurpurea Nana’ – that might be a better alternative once I get mine out. Hope you have a good week, Pauline!
My daughter is improving all the time, thanks Catherine, she is determined to get back to normal as quickly as possible. I have one Acer whose leaves turned to a crisp in the drought, but the rest seem ok, thank goodness, so should have some lovely tints from them soon. I have inspected my Berberis Nana and there are thorns but so tiny they aren’t a problem.