Autumn at Picton Castle Gardens.

This was our autumn garden club meeting at Picton Castle Gardens. As well as looking at all the lovely things that are happening at this time of the year. Some of us were able to collect seeds to plant (or drop or throw) in our own gardens.

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Some of the colours just hit you in the eye, so I will let the plants speak for themselves.

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There is quite a lot to look at so I hope you enjoy them all.

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Magnificent blue hydrangea.

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Just beautiful and so delicate.
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Another astonishing flower. Absolutely wonderful.

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Nature's palette is incredible. Surely pink and green just can't go together!

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'Mrs Wilmott's Ghost'. Very viscious and spikey and absolutely full of seeds.

The story with these plants is that Mrs Wilmott used to put some of these seeds in her pocket and wherever she visited she threw some down. No-one ever saw her do it and so the plants just suddenly made a ghostly appearance. (That's the tale we were told by Roddy the Head Gardener.)

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