Reflection Through The Seasons

MEMORIES OF SUNNIER DAYS.....

Summer days have quietly slipped into Autumn now...... one feels the familiar nip in the air that foretells of the cold and bleak days soon to come when frosts will destroy the splendours of both garden and countryside.

.......Harvest home

Leaves on the Virginia Creeper have finally turned a bright crimson and fall fast....... a daily chore of sweeping the yard

This little box hedge is my pride and joy...... I grew it all from cuttings I'd gathered up when John was trimming the front hedge a few years ago.

Looking after Mummy's apple.......

John takes a welcome rest in the summer house...... is this the next project he's looking up?

Mist lingers in the mornings and the grass is continually wet.....

This sheltered bench is a favourite place to relax with a good book

The agapanthus have been a delight this year, sadly their beautiful blue flowers are over now, but the attractive seed heads are left and give an interesting shape in the winter garden.

The tree fern is quite hardy and it is only in a severe winter that it needs a jacket.......

The phormium grows well here in the garden, I enjoy it architectural shape and the way the spiky leaves move in the wind.

The fanned finger leaves of the Trachycarpus palm is another shape I enjoy.......

The autumnal show flares and fades and all too soon there will be..... 'no fruit, no flowers, no leaves, no birds.... November' (Thomas Hood)

..... but, the promise of the rainbow.