wordless wednesday: beech wood

Wordless wednesday: winter beech

November calendar

the last rose

It’s been a mild and dry November so far with only a couple of frosts overnight and the last few days sunny and peaking at 18c – 20c.

We have cleared and covered up some beds for winter but others are still productive. So we are still picking beetroot, swede, leeks, fennel, chard, kale and cauliflower, and aside from carrots we haven’t had to buy any veg for weeks.

In the flower garden we have one lonesome rose, borage and the indestructible self seeded calendula still flowering. The hyssop is now gone over but the dead flower heads still have a fantastic structure especially when backlit by the morning sun. The beech hedging is turning a burnished bronze and has grown well this year, as has the mixed berry hedge at the end of the orchard.

looking north

looking south

calendula

looking towards “la petite maison”

dewy borage flowers

beech hedge

pear tree

kale

beds covered for winter

hyssop

Wordless Wednesday : Beech and Snow

Beech and Snow

Weekly Photo Challenge: Beginning

Seedlings are a sign of the new year beginning, and the flowers to come in the summer.

Phacelia

Corncockle

Out in the garden the Beech hedge and the apple trees are showing new buds for the spring.

Beech buds

Apple bud

Wordless Wednesday – New Beech leaves