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After my recent debauched weekend, today I was back at the coal face.  How I suffered in the cosseting rays of the benign autumn sun.   With unremitting bravery I bore the hardships of garden gossip, planning the year ahead, collecting seed of aubergine hollyhocks, planting out hesperantha and gaura, shuffling out-of-place cistus and lobelia.  Then,Continue reading “Back at the Coal Face”

What can I say? It was a wonderful weekend away from The Shire.  I am still recovering.  For this reason words are in short supply.  A precis of my adventures using photographs to illustrate each event will follow. With Hero I shopped.  This delphinium was admired but passed by in favour of the ever-shifting salesContinue reading “The Wanderer Returns”

Today I am excited.  Tomorrow (today/last week/ages ago according to when you get around to reading this post) I am going with my good friends Hero and Mrs Swotty to Malvern Autumn Show.  When we are there we are going to meet up with the equally lovely Malvern Maid.  I am confident there will beContinue reading “The Day After the Autumn Equinox”

All downhill from here.

You don’t always have to shout to be heard.  This beautiful Gladiolus papilio proves just that.

That will warm your cockles!

“I just wondered” Mr G slipped into the conversation “what are you like at shifting hay bales?”  “I don’t know, I’ve never tried.” “Just popping out for a couple of hours, cover for me.”  “Of course.”

For some reason I am noticing a lot of seed pods this year.  This is Pittosporum tenuifolium and I don’t recall ever having seen fruit on this large shrub (with designs on being a tree).  Perhaps in previous years I have been diverted by some exciting autumnal event, although I can’t imagine what that couldContinue reading “Fire Eaters”

Better than before?  Perhaps more welcome.