Monday

Its very windy again today so I expect a lot more leaves to have landed in the garden by tomorrow and a few more overturned pots & horizontal plants. There’s plenty of bloom around though in both front & back garden.

Saturday & Not working!

I had wonderful sleep last night mainly because I didn’t have to get up to go to work. I spent the afternoon in the front garden, clearing the first fall of leaves and litter and planting out four new plants. The geum is red, the echinacea is a dusky pinky & the double Japanese anemone a pink. The penstemon is supposed to be red but its flowers definitely don’t look red to me!

Geum ‘Mrs Bradshaw’

Echinacea Magnus

Penstenom ‘red’

Ben seemed to enjoy being out with me in the front garden & watched me carefully as I brushed up the leaves but didn’t try to help!

Thursday

Life’s complications continue but I have at least got a car again. I was working this afternoon but before I went into town I had a quick reci into the Magic Garden. I’m really pleased still with how the back corner is coming on with Ben’s catmints and the heuchera but there is a good patch of nettles needing dealt with and I need to redo the part of the garden next to the fence divide us from next-door.

Tuesday

Life was a bit complicated today as after going out for lunch, my car decided to die so I didn’t get quite the time I expected to be in the Magic Garden or do any of the many tasks that need sorting out in the house.

I am very pleased with how well the front garden border is settling in and the heuchera are looking superb

Sunday

I spent some time tidying up in the Magic Garden today. I noticed that my rosemary beetles are not in the lavender or rosemary but rather were on the seedheads of the globe thistles & the perovskia, assuming they are rosemary beetles.

Saturday

I had a little time in the Magic Garden this afternoon. It is still windy and although not exactly cold. I dug out a stump of hazel from the east quadrant before planting out the beautiful heuchera in its place

I am really enjoying the birds at the feeders and I have a pair of lovely blue tits who are raiding both the suet balls and the peanuts.

Ben was less than enthusiastic about joining me but is still enjoying the bower seat and did spend a couple of hours outdoors today

Thursday

I again was at work doing extra today. I did get to see light at the start of the day though and did a quick inspection of the damage that the wind wrought last night. I have some leeks growing in containers which I need to weed but most of my container crops are now over. I still have plenty of apples to come and some blackberries and the kale is going strong in the back bed.

Tuesday

Its mild but very windy here & we’ve had scattered rain showers. Ben and I sat & watched the birds from the arbour seat and I watched the insects on the monkshood. It always puzzles me that these are supposed to be poisonous in all parts but clearly not to bees & wasps

Monday - a day off

I was being a patient this morning so I decided to take the whole day off. I celebrated by visiting a garden centre and buying some crocus bulbs and some garlic. I also bought a heuchera but haven’t decided where to put it yet. Ben came and supervised proceedings from the bower seat while I planted out some wallflowers and some of the crocuses. I am enjoying the pots I’ve planted up particularly the one with the Persicaria ‘Red Dragon’

Sunday

Its been an okay day here with bits of sunshine and lots of wind. I am enjoying the colour my blueberries’ leaves are going & am still cropping them too. At the back of the garden the Japanese anemones are still going strong and providing a corner of colour under the black elder tree.

Saturday

In the Magic Garden, I harvested more blackberries before planting a new blackcurrant bush and enjoying some of the late flowers for early autumn now we are into October. I cooked the blackberries with a couple of the bramley apples from the Magic Garden

It was great not to be at work today! I opened the door to find Ben’s catsitter had brought me a fig tree that one her other clients no longer has room for sitting there! The front garden looks good despite the litter that the wind keeps dumping in it

Wednesday

I was again out from dark to dark but found this great spider from 8 years ago! Its clearly rained hard here today as all is soggy and Ben didn’t volunteer to come down and help me put out the bins.