“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it...”

By the time this blog is published we will have just under two weeks until we close for winter, crazy I know. We are getting through the autumn jobs and some much needed thinning and tidying in some of the garden areas. We've also been working on getting more of the plants we sell planted so you can see how they grow once in the ground. This has been very useful learning for Isabel, building her knowledge in all things horticulture and we've had a laugh about how some planting ideas just don't work and we learn as much from mistakes as we do from the successes.

Dawn on the marshes

Catching up on September

Crazy Maisie and her rat

Beautiful autumn colours on a lovely autumnal day. Customers have been very complimentary on the gardens and how there is still so much colour and interest as we go through October.

You can easily do the same as most of the plants looking good now in the gardens are also for sale in the nursery.

Regarding bulbs, tulips are selling well, so if you want to get some, sooner rather than later to get the best colours

No sale video on Saturday, it was take away and movie night

Here's a photo of the glorious if rather enthusiastic Aster Monte Cassino who along with all our other Asters is starting to come into flower. Perfect for late season colour in the garden, they are divided into 2 camps, clump forming and well behaved or an rampant runner, which is great if you have the space. Its worth doing a bit of research to see which varieties will suit your garden, but they are very definitely worth growing

You can read all about them on my blog here: Asters, the jewels of Autumn

Autumn in the garden at home

Some lovely autumn colours in the nursery gardens this week with the grasses really coming into their own. With a supporting cast of persicaria, late Astrantia and solidago they look amazing this year, especially the Miscanthus. Waiting in the wings are the divas that are asters in all their colours and growing habits. All the above are available to buy in the nursery until we close for winter.

Last week it was all about the autumn jobs and finishing off tasks before we close for winter. The weather has been unseasonably warm and not too much rain, the seasons of old are definitely changing. We are well ahead with the strimming of the wildflower areas with the aim of having it all done before we close rather than having to come in when we are on holiday.

Isabel and I have been working on re doing some plantings in the garden which haven’t worked, died or just need refreshed or have got over grown as they are the oldest areas and now 10 to 11 years old. We’ve gathered seed and potted up plants we’ve thinned out from the gardens, so there will be plenty Persicaria next year!

I harvested the medlars and sadly not as many as last year so I don’t think there will be enough for medlar cheese. I made that last year and it was a great hit at Christmas with our Christmas eve buffet.

The hedges are all cut and looking much better with all the material going onto the dead headge and the stock take sheets are printed out ready to start that big job next week. I also had the first use of my Hori hori knife having been dragged into the 21^st century of gardening tools for my birthday. Its very good, though like most things designed for right handed people!

We still have a good selection of plants in our sale including 1 Prunus Autumnalis, 2 Asparagus, a few water plants, 4 roses, a few climbers, some grasses and a couple of tables of shrubs and perennials, so plenty to choose from. There are still a good choice of bulbs if you haven’t got your yet and theres still plenty time to plant bulbs and plants before it gets too cold.

This is a painting I’ve done before, but I didn’t get the scale right as I wanted to sit with my previous two wriggly tin building paintings, so I’ve done another this week which I think works much better.

Maisie and I had a lovely autumnal walk along the river and back through the woods after a garden consultation this morning in the town and then an afternoon at home catching up on chores

Title Quote — George Eliot

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