Laying the Seeds for Next Summer

Our early October weather has been unseasonably generous this past couple of weeks.

And on one or two given days you might have even been mislead into thinking that

Summer was on it's way back around again. Days I often call false Spring days. But no,

Autumn is definitely here, looking at the burgeoning and rapidly spreading red

Virginia Creeper Vine all over our neighbour's back gardens.

So these are just a few pictures of our new side of house garden plot. Something that

has been an ongoing Summer project. And yet for early October it is looking unseasonably

colorful after adding in some Pink Cyclamen as well as some late Summer Chrysanthemums.

Although our hanging basket of Mint Herbs isn't being fooled by the season change and

has started to thin out a bit.

And probably the last job to do out there is to plant our Daffodil bulbs for some Spring

colour come next March or April when I hope to return to the Mill Hill Garden Centre with

some fresh ideas and some new plans for next Summer.  

Above is the center piece plant container that I built. And I dread to think how much

all this timber would have cost if I had bought it from the big Homebase Store in Finchley Road.

But thankfully I managed to retrieve it all for free from a large discarded

wooden pallet. 

Above and below as predicted, the rampant spreading of the Virginia Creeper Vine

has turned into an Autumn red.