Whats lookin' good in October 2016

Even the leaves of the Hammamelis can look good in their Autumn colour (looks fantastic in the early morning sun ) and it won't be long before the flowers start forming.



The white heather is only just starting to flower. This picture is from the patch that is about 20sq ft alongside our front path. So it gives a lovely brightness and cheer throughout the winter.

 

@noisette47 Our Nerines grow happily in pots.



Fruit doing OK and we've been picking apples and pears for weeks - much earlier than usual







Cyclamen still doing well




Mrs Shiney has just split the variegated Aspidistras - for sale on Open Day

 

We got some strong winds and some rain, at last, and the dahlias got battered




This one hid from the rain


Tree trunks looking architectural after having cleared the undergrowth around them




Wild alliums (we've left them there for three years so have they become domesticated? )


Some poppies are still flowering


and I suppose you could call these architectural as well . The tiny white cacti in the background is coming up for its 50th birthday

 

Grasses are coming into their own at this time of year












So is the bamboo

 

Chillies still doing well




We had to slice off another couple of inches from the poplar trunk again as it had sprouted thousands of shoots that were 4ft high and hiding the Eucalyptus that we had planted in it


One of the areas in our veggie plot that has just been manured and dug over


and a general view of that section of the garden. The silver birch has dropped half its leaves but the corkscrew willow hasn't started


A nice pair of hips