NOVEMBER'S HERE

 So there is a definite chill in the air and the nights are drawing in and we have now moved into the month of November.

Paul's been putting plants away for the last few weeks, emptying pots and putting them into storage, the leaves that had turned red are now dropping.

The field maple inside the folly walls

The last of the sun hitting the walls of the folly.

This Clematis is still flowering despite the cold.

from the path

inside the folly

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The folly floor covered by the maple leaves.

Out in the front garden the smoke bush is vibrantly burning red in the corner.

It's beautiful red leaves sing out for several weeks.

The red of the spindle tree brightens the opposite corner by the edge of the drive.

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Still flowering at the front are three different Fuchsia's all taken as cuttings by Paul years back. The pale pink came from the garden of a cottage we stayed at in Yorkshire.

The 'Yorkshire ' Fuchsia.

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View from the road of the house, well it's behind this wall for shrubs we planted to save us looking out on any cars parked in the road.

View of the house from the drive, still plenty of green and reds.

A CATCH UP

 Well Paul's been working on the flower garden. Clearing each of the four beds one at a time, weeding, moving and adding plants and mulching with our compose from the bins, then adding a layer of small bark chips, hopefully to help keep the weeds down.

One of the cleared and replanted, mulched beds. Because we increased the size of them, we have had to bring forward some of the smaller plants than were edging the previous smaller beds and were then smothered by  bigger plants. We also added some of the plants we had in pots that had got to big.

Today was the first really cold day we have had, but the sun still shone although the air was chilly.

The planting is filling up around the raised stream bed.

the wild life pond has wild life or I should say tiny fish! Paul put some pond oxygenator from the big pond in and it must have had some eggs on it as there were three tiny fish that appeared.

Alas one died earlier this week but then he counted four! so a few more must have hatched or been hiding. They are tiny and very fast, so hard to always count them.

The greenhouse windows have all been cleaned and bubble wrap added to help through the coming winter months. We have invested in a parafin heater and have already put the lemon tree inside since last night was so cold as well as today despite the sunshine.

So the next few weeks will be all about putting away those plants that need winter protection and covering those that need it where they stand. So a busy few weeks.