Just like that its the end of our 2024 season for the nursery, its been quite a year in so many ways. We are now ready for a break and a holiday then back to get on with all the winter jobs.
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| Late October colour in the nursery garden |
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| Loch and mountains in two colours -
Prussian Blue and Indigo |
Corylus maxima 'Purpurea' has produced nuts for the first time and they are pink! Standing out now the purple foliage is coming off they show another example of keeping colour and interest going in the garden well into autumn and winter.
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| In the pumpkin patch |
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| The Quercus Garden Plants team enjoying a well deserved end of season dinner |
Sunday was our last day of our 2024 season and you know us, never ones to take it easy....we decided to cover the first new tunnel in our new nursery area 
Massive massive thanks to Adam, Wim, Fiona, Isabel and David for all their hard work to achieve this today especially when the wind decided to pick up 
fortunately no one took off and parachuted somewhere else and we now have a shiny new polytunnel which we've already moved all the tender display plants into 
Team Quercus doing what it does best, working hard, achieving a lot and having a laugh along the way 
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Autumn leaves on the way to Peebles high street   |
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| Autumn river views |
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| A soggy Maisie Mouse at the dog field at Eksrickle |
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| Lunch at Errington Barn which was excellent,
they've made great changes to the place |
Maisie Mouse loved chasing her ball in the dog field
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Oh yes! Its that time of year  christmas sheep with sparkly snow |
Tuesday and a walk up the hill past Tantah and on to the top of Spoon wood then back down through Spoon Wood and Southpark Wood.
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| Looking back to Peebles |
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| Views over Manor |
Wednesday ended up being a bit of a nostalgia trip, didn’t plan it, just the way it went. Lunch with Betty was planned which was lovely but I meandered over to Linlithgow to Betty’s via the house the boys grew up in, haven’t been up past Auchengray for years. Then Maisie and I had a walk up Cockleroy, the hill behind Linlithgow that I could see from my bedroom window growing up. It felt huge climbing it as a child lol and its been decades since I was last up there. Next was a visit to my Dad’s grave, again a long long time since I was there. He’s always with me in my heart and my memories, so I don’t feel I need to go there, but there are circumstances that make it challenging to go. But today it felt good and right. Lunch with Betty as always was great, good to catch up and of course Maisie loves Granny Biscuits!
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| Climbing up Cockleroy |
The lamp shade that inspired a room colour theme and then I managed to track down the fabric to get some cushions for the sofa bed made. But it’s taken me a year to get around to getting them made, because I thought I would do it myself, don’t have a sewing machine anymore, time or skills. So I asked our lovely nursery customer Rosalind of Pretty Rose Home Décor if she could make three cushions and a shaped cushion for David’s old chair. The room now looks finished and perfect with them. Really pleased with the cushions and there’s still fabric left for something else Thanks Rosalind 
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