Autumn Gardening

Timely reminders. 

Someone recommended throwing carrot seeds far and wide to rewild amongst any uncut grass.

Love their flowerhead so much.

On the lookout for a packet of seeds right now.

We already sprinkled saved supplies of evening primrose, wallflower, and foxglove across our newly revealed topsoil, after we had removed the gravel and artificial membrane and discovered how large the SW centipedes will grow! 

Perhaps this is timely enough for their biennial launch.

Thinking of uses for enriched ground where I just turned out a compost dalek I have almost settled on a lavender which needs to get out of its travelling pot.

All considerations are according to a plant's ability to make use of sunshine, as this site contrasts very sharply in its winter/summer provision.

For a couple of months at midwinter only the side fence and far corner by the back gate receive light; the front yard is bathed in all we get, so spinach is in a movable box to allow snippings to continue past bonfire night.

Plenty of land cress grows everywhere and hardly gets weeded up, instead allowed as ground cover and radishy taste to pep up winter salads, and there'll be parsley, a few sprigs off the newly installed rosemary & thyme plants, and spring bulbs to look forward to.

Assiduous watering kept the potted Christmas Tree happy, then to relocate some shorn polyanthus, from a verge the council would keep mowing.

Walks have yielded an encouraging collection of cuttings to start off inside the miniature greenhouse, good versions of philadelphus, lacecap hydrangea, japanese quince, traveller's joy, ceanothus, a pink periwinkle, a winter flowering hebe.

All being well these are destined to create new hedging and serve the pollinators in our restored garden.