GLOBAL WHATEVERING?

Plants that flower in July are flowering now amongst the beginning of the autumn colour. It can only be due to the early hot summer and drought postponing flowering. Is global whatevering having an effect?

The eucryphia is finally out as is the potentilla - I have seen this out elsewhere too.

As for autumn colour the Acer sango kaku and the euonymus are an eyeful. (Is the Greek language responsible for so many plants having Latin names beginning with eu? Or is this a subtle ploy by the European Union to infiltrate British gardening?)

Wonderful weeds? After the Thornapple, now removed to the weed heap in the far garden, I have been pulling up Ragweed. I suppose it must have come from the bird seed but was several yards away and anyway we only have sunflower seed, never and peanuts not mixed seed.
We have enough with bindweed and gout weed (ground elder)(thank the Romans for that one), couch grass and horsetails.

We have, at last, roses in flower in the new bed. The orange one was given to us by I and L.

Now my pal Mr. Pheas is becoming more tame and, if he sees me topping up the bird feeders, he comes running and stands a couple of yards away in hopeful anticipation.

 On the other hand - "What shall we do for lunch dear? Let's pop down to the garden shed and see if we can chew through the wires of the peanut feeder."

Now to something a bit disturbing - no not Trump, Putin or even Boris - The black bootlaces of Honey Fungus are alive and well in the garden. The toadstools have appeared along a fifteen foot length of hedge under the sallow, around the bottom of the eucalyptus and around one of the lovely white birches.

Now, I know they are edible but I am not very tempted. All we can do is wait and hope the trees are strong enough to withstand the fungus.

Finally autumn is with us. mellow stuff and fruitfulness - and colour so here is a taster for the next blog when I will try and get some more photos of the autumn colours before they get blown away.