Friday 24 September 2010

End of Summer in our Garden ...

It may be the end of summer, but there is plenty of colour still in our garden.
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For our tea tonight. No cream, just home-made yoghurt!
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Still lots of late season raspberries to pick.
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Bright orange and very cheerful nasturtiums.
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These penstemons are such a bright blue, they can be seen from the bottom of the garden!
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Our James Grieve apple tree. Absolutely loaded with fruit this year. Not quite ready yet but can be eaten as a dessert apple or cooked. All our Laxton's Superbs have either fallen or been picked and most of those have already been eaten. A very successful second year's fruiting for our trees.
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A furry rhodedendron that neither of us can remember the name of at present. It is in our front garden and looks after itself very well. It survived all the snow and ice of last winter exceedingly well and we look forward to its delicate white flowers again this year.
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The colours on this climbing, trailing, leafy hedging is always particulary beautiful at this time of the year. Sorry, we don't know its name either!
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Some horizontalis amongst the other red, vibrant leaves. A most beautiful time of year.
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2 comments:

Linda said...

Those berries look fab. We still have quite a few, but they're not ripe yet. I'm hoping the cold weather keeps off until we can eat them all!
It's the last of the roses too, sadly. Thank goodness for winter flowering pansies!
Your pictures are beautiful!

foreveryoung said...

Thanks for your comments about my photos Linda. I find great satisfaction in trying to get a good image. I'm my own worst critic though. Ann