The middle of October, as it happens, and Autumn continues to stall its entry. Other than last night with temperatures dipping below 5c, the weather refuses to accept the season's journey towards winter.
Global warming.
This time last year my garden was fully aglow. However, this year summer is clinging on for dear life and the leaves are slow to change.
In the Yen, we've brought the banana under cover where it'll remain over winter. The palm has been brought up to its winter residence in the lea of the house. The rate things are going, it won't be long before we will be able to leave them in place year round. That's not as good as it sounds.
Colour is beginning to lick at the foliage now, with euonymus Alatus picking up the polished bark of the Tibetan cherry in the foreground, while in the background, the leaves of liquidamber styraciflua Lane Roberts will soon be ablaze.
Euonymus Alatus
Liquidamber styraciflua Lane Roberts
Here and there, touches of autumn are appearing.
This is an exciting moment to see what our newest tree thinks to the season and so far acer October Glory is living up to its name!
And now for something a little different. We spent about 15 minutes watching this tiny wee critter playing among the plants in the front garden this afternoon. Apologies for the photo quality, we were inside.
We think it's a field mouse due to the size of its back legs, and that it's a female or a youngster due to the ahem...anatomy. She spent a fair bit of time climbing up the fence to try to balance on the top most support wire before falling off and doing it all again.
So comical.
