Wednesday 14 November 2012

Last of the flowers

Leaves have gone from the trees (on to my lawn...sweep, sweep, sweep...sigh) so it's time to turn indoors but before that, on show for the last time is the last of the flowers from the garden.

The chewed up white dahlias
The yellow Dahlia
The dahlias are among my favourites in garden, but it would appear that I'm not alone. Last year's plant was chewed to the ground, and it looks like this year is no different...sigh! In addition to the white dahlia, I have a yellow one this year, it seems to have faired better.

They are no fans of the cold, so this year, I will fleece them for the winter months and hopefully, they will survive.

The others that bring the last colours are the pink rose, this plant has been in the garden for a year now, it is growing too well and only have a few blooms but they are really large and vibrant!

The pink lily is another eye catching splash of colour when everything else is turning dull like the weather.

The purple allium and pink heather brings on the curtain call, alliums are late this year compared to last year and this is the second flowering for the heather, once in spring and again in late autumn.

 

 



The pink rose
The pink rose
Purple heather
The pink rose
The pink tiger lily
The pink tiger lily
 

Sunday 4 November 2012

Sunflower

The garden is currently being given the rest that its earned so now is the time to reflect on some of plants that I didn't get a chance to showcase earlier on the year. One of them is the sunflower, this is the first time I've tried to grown them and the sprouted easily and once establishe kept reaching for the sky. I had a phot taken of myself when I was hardly 2 so I intended to capture a similar shot of my girl as she just turned 2 this year, alas all too often we forget that Mother Nature gets the last say in all to do in the garden.... Just as the sunflowers bloomed to their full size and I was ready for my photo shoot, the weather turned and we experienced high winds, on the morn the sunflowers were down and the opportunity for the photo was gone. Maybe next year.....

The raspberry canes
suffered too but they
had stopped producing by then
The downed sunflower