Autumnal

[callmemadam]

It's rather dismal to have autumnal weather without the mists and mellow fruitfulness. I love autumn, but when it comes. In spite of the constant gloomy cloud cover and the chilly breeze, nary a drop of rain do we get here. Most of the garden is quite shrivelled up and looks awful. The grass, what there is of it, is covered in leaves and windfall apples, or fallers as they call them here. Here's a few autumnal-type pics.




This is a native plant, known as Tutsan. Actually it's a hypericum. The interest of it is that you get yellow flowers, red berries and black berries all on the bush at the same time. It's the most awful weed; seeds anywhere.

Another weed is Golden Rod (below) which seeded itself into the garden from somewhere else.



The wild arum is now fruiting, ready to seed everywhere. I've seen birds after the berries: perhaps they help to spread the seeds around.



Thank goodness for annuals. Here's some cheerful Rudbeckias.

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[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

There are quite a lot of flowers in the garden really: it's the green which has gone. Too many yellowing leaves on perennial plants and shrubs makes everything look sad. My sweet peas were a complete failure this year, too. They were very slow, the few flowers had very short stems and I dug the lot out a couple of weeks ago. I will get some good seed and try again for next year.
We are eating courgettes nearly every day but the mildew on the leaves! Yuk. I have a sort of plan to put in broad beans which will over winter. What are you using? And what Japanese onions? I've grown garlic quite successfully but never onions.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll check out the onions. Carrots are no good here because of the clay.
Would you believe, the Husky has just phoned from a train on a journey which has been delayed by floods in Surrey & South London. And we still haven't a drop! Bad for the veg.