My Little Garden 22nd October
Last weekend saw a major announcement on the Six on Saturday front with our leader of the last few years passing over his baton to someone new, namely Jim Stephens who ‘ruminates’ about all things gardening. https://gardenruminations.co.uk/2022
Now I have to confess, that I only got involved with these Saturday shenanigans in 2020 because of Twitter, and I’ve been very lax in commenting directly on any blogs. That’s partly because of time pressures (ok laziness) and partly because my blog is on Medium rather than Wordpress. To check out the blog of our new leader (and very interesting it is) I was forced to log onto Wordpress in order to leave both a comment and a link to my Medium site. There could be a whole new world there waiting for me to explore. Hopefully though, the folks who also share their photos as part of the twitter hashtag will carry on regardless.
Anyway, let’s get on to my autumn garden this week. There’s been some fabulously sunny days, and I’m only disappointed that most of my time has been spent in other peoples gardens rather than my own. Nevertheless, here are six photos of six things that have been pleasing me this week.
- Symphyotrichum or ‘chum for short
I was going on about asters that aren’t asters any more last week, and if you’re wishing that I didn’t have quite as many ‘chums, well so am I. At some point in the future, I won’t need to check the spelling any more, but for this week I’ve looked it up as the label still says ‘Aster’ when of course it should be that well known, easily remembered name of Symphyotrichum novi-belgii Snow Cushion
2. Gaura
Gaura ‘Rosyjane’ is one of my favourite and the flowers will be wafting around for another few weeks before I cut it back for winter.
3. Ready for the chop? Or not?
I quite like the dying flowers of the echinacea. Like many of my perennials, it’s great to see them covered in the first frosts, and we almost had one earlier this week.
4. Clematis ‘Miss Bateman’
She just doesn’t give up and there’s still one more bud to come.
5. Perennial Wallflower
Flowering since March, I’ve certainly had value for money from Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’. In terms of colour, I prefer Erysimum ‘Pastel Patchwork’ or ‘Winter Orchid’, but neither are quite as floriferous as this one. It doesn’t get any sun at this time of year, but doesn’t seem to care.
6. Leaves
The leaves of the deciduous shrubs are all turning shades of yellow, orange and red now. This is Prunus incisa ‘Kojo-no-mai’, which tries its b3st to join in the autumn party.
And that’s it folks. Thank you for reading and have a great weekend. If you get a moment, please check out the ruminations of the new Six on Saturday leader over on WordPress. Happy gardening!
