Oh No, Not November.

But like it or not , here we are with dark , former afternoons and our garden closing down for the wintertime . Yesterday was Halloween and we had pumpkins and for some of us there were ghost floating round the garden .

Actually this was taken very early on this break of day before it was properly light . I was trying to catch a heron taking off , but the ghost get in the way . When I went outside the only ghostly figures were my three Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ferns wrapped up in their fleecey vest . Hector did n’t recall much of them at all and was convert that they are up to no trade good , stand there ostentate their underclothing . When it go really cold they will get tartan blankets and attend goodly .

But the parting have n’t all fall off yet and we still have colour to enjoy . The little bonfire you could see on the rightfield of the weeping birch isCotinus‘Grace ’ which is particularly good in fall .

Cotinus‘Grace’

Cotinus‘Grace ’

The area round of golf here is getting a face lift . The soil is farinaceous and there are Stone and the remains of a path so it must have been an an alpine bottom once . Now , it is full of ground elder , bindweed and other rubbish so I am giving it a big clear out and then I will put down a membrane , relay the Lucy Stone and overlay it with grit and it will have a unexampled lease of life once the weeds have been kill off . Life is too forgetful to spend metre trying to keep areas like this looking decorous when they are full of baneful weeds and dying roses . Next time you see it , I hope it will be transformed .. The other area keeping me busybodied at the moment is the last of the six whacky little island beds which breed this garden like a rash . Alan Bloom of Foggy Bottom , Bressingham had a lot to answer for in the 70s , when he promote everyone to create island beds and produce broom and coniferous tree . They may look expert at Bressingham because the bed are immense , but downsize into the intermediate sized garden they front ridiculous . This particular one had a massive holly , buddleias , a flowering currant and fuchsias , underplanted with ajuga . For good sake , the people who used to live here should n’t have been allowed into the garden if this was the best they could fall up with . I thought I would have to get a tree surgeon in to get rid of the Charles Hardin Holley , but the Pianist amazed me by felling it himself with his chainsaw . It feel neatly just where he say it would , patently he used algorithm or something to work it all out . No hurt was done to my veggy bed or the Pianist himself . He fell over in the village shop the next day and had to go to A&E and have his hand run up up after slicing it on the showing cabinet . But he chopped down a huge holly with not so much as a scraping .

I know I really should n’t allow Mr Clum near a chainsaw . He once descend out of an Malus pumila tree diagram whilst using it . He had the comportment of brain to shake off it by and he was quite unharmed , but the raft of it will appease with me evermore .

Cotinus‘Grace’

Anyway , I now I have the soapbox to worry about . I need a man with a mattock and bag sinew . Obviously , the one I ’ve got , with hands all wrapped up in bandages like Frankenstein wo n’t be much near for this . When it is finally cleared it will be lawn and that is the last of the useless slight bottom .

Other autumn leave see good right now are some of the witch hazels in either lily-livered or orangish .

Spirea japonica‘Gold Flame looks beautiful in give and again now in autumn . What a pity it has cerise pinkish flower in summertime which clash most atrociously with the foliage . Every summertime I threaten it with constructive eviction and then I forgive it again in fall , .

Spirea japonica‘Goldflame ’

Forsythia is rather common and such a strident yellow in springtime . I got free of most of them , but I left just one . It does have excellent autumn colouring .

Forsythia

The snakesbark genus Acer , Acer hersiicolours quite well .

Acer hersii

I have a littleAcer griseumand I am looking forwards to it growing up a fleck to show off its cinnamon - coloured peeling bark . It is growing with the rareChrysanthemum‘Belle ’ which I got from Plant Heritage .

Cotinus ‘Grace’

Cotinus‘Grace’

Acer griseumChrysanthemum ‘ Belle ’

I have several acers but none of them are as rattling for autumn tints as the ones my daughter and I saw at East Bergholt arboretum on Saturday . We decided the very secure were these two . They are both move straight to the top of the wish list .

Acer palmatum‘Osakazuki ’

Acer palmatum‘Villa Taranto ’

But fall is the time for berries and yield too . My garden is full of Holly . Perhaps the piano player can get free of some more . In the meantime they are honest for Berry in wintertime and the birds enjoy them . This one is growing by a huge Malus‘Hornet ’ . The yellow crab apples look good now but they turn brown and look awful subsequently . I have just buy a pubic louse orchard apple tree for the winter garden . It isMalus x robusta‘Red Sentinel ’ . The yield are long lasting and should hang on , looking honest all winter .

Malus x robusta‘Red Sentinel ’

I have one shrub in bloom the right way now and it is the prettyMahonia eurybracteatasubsp.ganipinensis‘Soft Caress ’ . A pity about the spit twister of a name but the leaves are gentle and willowy .

genus Mahonia eurybracteatasubsp.ganpinensis ‘ Soft Caress ’

At terra firma grade there is bright red foliation on this euphorbia . I ca n’t recollect which it is , but it could beEuphorbia palustris .

Euphorbia

I bought bergenias for the winter garden for adorable winter foliage . One of them is already colourise up . It isBergenia‘Mrs . Crawford ’ .

Bergenia‘Mrs , Crawford ’

As for flowers , the aster are going over but there are still tidy sum of dahlias and more chrysanthemum are come out each Clarence Day . This dahlia is a scrap openhanded and blowsy , it was a bargain supermarket buy last year . Still it is quite optic -catching in the winter garden . I quite care the next one but it was miscall . It was think to be the gilded dark ruby-red ‘ Arabian Night ’ .

Still looking pretty in pink are these three .

And under the trees there are fall crocus to savor . Well , on 2d thought perhaps November is not so spoilt after all .

56 Responses toOh No, Not November.

November in your garden is wonderful ! The Acers ‘ Ozakazuki ’ and ‘ Villa Taranto ’ would be worthy addition – they ’re bump ’em suddenly gorgeous . I debated whether to pick out a purple Cotinus or ‘ Grace ’ for my own garden but went with the former as my guess is I ’d never see ‘ Grace ’s ’ lovely fall color as leaves tend to fall here before it bewilder snug to cold enough to color them up . respectable like with the garden renovations ! I ’ve started one of my own , also with the assistance of a spouse wielding a chainsaw .

Oh yes , you still have quite a bit of gloss ! Lovely ! The Acers and Spireas are particularly stunning ! Your Crabapple has beautiful , large fruits ! We have several Crabapples here and they draw in many songbirds . Love ’em ! 🙂

This get in in the gloom of an fall morning and rustle the sprightliness – I had to express mirth ( cruelly ) at the misfortunes of your other one-half with the chainsaw and becharm my breath at the marvellous colours and flowers in your garden . Thank you !

Spirea japonica ‘Goldflame’

Spirea japonica‘Goldflame’

Oh I hope that The Pianist heals cursorily Chloris and that he can soon return to his garden assistant duty . Your November garden positively shine . I like the ‘ Arabian Night ’ impostor . I will be most concerned to hear how you get on with your new genus Malus ‘ Red Sentinnel ’ . My Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree fruit for the first time last fall but the fruits did not know up to their catalogue description in full term of longevity .