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A fruit with a mesh cage

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Nicandra physalodes has flowered with lovely tubular blue flowers and now produced an intricate mesh cage containing the green-brownish seed. Nature’s light and delicate engineering work held up well to storm Bella and sleet showers.

Autumn Colours

Autumn painting: Leaves and moss on tarmac.

Time to collect leaves as a resource for potting compost next year.

Dahlia fever

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Dahlia “Crème des Cassis”

This one fits perfectly into a border with deep burgundy colours and I love it! The pace at which Dahlias grow is amazing. The smaller varieties do great in pots and easily outperform pelargoniums. There are adorable ones that also grow quite large, needing substantial support.

Dahlias are definetely not maintenance-free. Leaving them in wet winter soil diminishes them and regular deadheading is essential during flowering. So Dahlias are great for people who do enjoy gardening.

A massive flint stone wall

The longer you look at it the more interesting it gets: under the trained limes the wall is shaded but apparently also dry in recent weeks. The moss has turned brown and tiny ferns cling to it. Each miniature frond has the pinnate structure of a fern, but they are bonsai-sized fairy garden plants.

They’re open :-)

The walled garden and ice cream van were very busy. But even on a booked out day at Mottisfont there are empty spaces to enjoy the view.

Sunny Windowsill

It’s not your screen that’s dirty: It’s my windowsill!

One can start off their seeds indoors on a sunny windowsill. Or one can choose to take RHS exams in February. I did the latter and am wondering now whether I can fit in more trays on the limited shelfs in my brain. I might have run out of space. Or of time. One week to go!

Front Garden

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This is the rather smashing front garden of one of the horticulture classrooms at Sparsholt. It hides the classroom container well! Especially the Garrya elliptica squeezed behind the other shrubs is doing a great job at the moment, looking almost festive with long tassels. The Daphne’s scent is wafting over the whole courtyard.

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