What's Looking Good October 2024

Thalia is often at its best now before I have to cut them down.

 

Cyclamen

 

Gorgeous Thalia @pete
I love your spindle @Sienna's Blossom !
Thanks @NigelJ - they're not very different are they? And plenty of my hederifolium didn't have purple undersides!

 

Biggest Thalia I've ever seen Pete shame to cut them down.


Bog garden filling out need to do a bit of weeding though


Antirrhinum seem to took ages to get going , Cornus China Dawn in background its got a fruit on as well , I'll get a better picture later

Rudbeckia Sahara I planted them they to far back in the border so can really see them but I like them so I'll know for next year . Nearly dug them up an put them with the Ensete after catapillars demolished the nasturtiums

This Parrotia has been acting very odd this year it seems to of been red for months now but only the top half . Salvia.Confertiflora it probably the only one this year that flowering its been a really bad year for them , Nachtvlinder hasn't stop flowering though

 

I like that Rudbeckia @Perki, and everything else in your garden

 

Those pots by your door are lovely @Perki . Is that dahlia David Howard?

 

Lovely sunset @shiney . We've had a few nice ones recently.
I posted this on a different thread a few moments ago. Oak leaf hydrangea with it's autumn colour
I have two of them, and the one at the other end of the garden is in a shadier site, and still has all it's flowers. It's not colouring up yet. This one was moved a couple of years ago, and hasn't yet flowered, but the autumn colours make up for it.

 

The Acer in my lower garden, now red, soon to be leafless!

 

So much to feast upon, @Perki, and I do like what you have done with the bit under the sturdy pergola. The antirrhinum are joyous.

Lovely view, @Plantminded and so colourful. Your zingy rudbeckia and softer grasses really complement each other too, with their contrasting qualities.

 

I do have David Howard in the pot next to it just out of picture bad year for that one pot to small I suspect , its called copper boy and the one on the right is Octopus sparkle

 

I wonder why your lawn has got these brown patches @Plantminded .

I went to a little forest near the farm shop in Cirencester on Sunday and found almost everything what I was looking for. All I could still need are curved branches.
I have a week off and started yesterday after it was no longer raining. I replanted the Echinacea which was along the path and relocated the Delphinium to the place where the Lavender used to be. This was the last remaining Hidcote which grew too long flower stems in our clay soil. Being in its 4th year, it was at the end of its productive journey and I may try to grow Lavender in the raised beds, where I had the tomato plant in. This is just peat free soil and the lavender should have enough space to root.
I moved once more the Helenium Moerheim Beaty next to the Perovskia Blue Spire after noticing that it was too close to the path. What you can't see is under the space to the right where the raised beds are, there is the concrete path of 1.5 meters and I can't plant too close to it.
Once all the movement was done with causing as little as possible interruption for the little animals, I started with the branches. The light wood parts at the end are from a rotten end. It will darken over the months to come.



I wonder if I should cut the stems down.


The Salvia Caradonna which I had replanted in August has obviously grounded.


The seeds are very important for birds.




The Weigela has decided to get two little flowers.




While planting the Delphinium where the Lavender used to be, I disturbed this little one who had slept in the nearby grass. The garden is now finished and there will be no further disturbance until March.






A final look. Finished.

 

I think using branches is the most effective way for the garden to get structure without implementing foreign materials which only end on a landfill once their time is over. It rots down and can be used for mulching.

You remember probably the video when someone made a rectangle on the floor with tape and the cat went straight into it and set there for ages. Actually, I noticed that cats and foxes do walk along the paths. They don't go into the beds (apart if I have catmint planted).