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    Lovely colourful touches in the garden this week.


    November 20th, 2019 - Colour in the garden, small garden ideas, Winter gardening

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    It’s amazing how in late November there are so many colourful touches in this garden from not only furniture but also from plants and little additions here and there.

    Miscanthus grass in a cottage garden

    Purple, red and gold

    This miscanthus looks fabulous every autumn and through the winter. I cut it to the ground in Feb and up it comes again.

    Colourful touches in the garden

    Orange, purple and golden yellow

    Here I’ve tucked artificial Chinese lantern stems  (from Sarah Raven) into the trachelospermum by the front door.

    Colourful touches in the garden

    Red, green and golden yellow

    And to the left I’ve tucked stems of artificial berries (also SR) on the other side.  The berries look quite real but it wouldn’t matter if they didn’t.

    I scraped the moss out of the gutters and threw the bucketful under the shrubs.  It looks lovely and more importantly must be full of insect food for the birds.  The robins and blackbirds are rummaging around in there already.  Such lovely stuff.

    Moss in a cottage garden

    Green and more green

    I collected the fallen acer leaves from a neighbour’s tree and carried them back to my lair.

    Colourful leaves in a cottage garden

    Dozens of shades of gold and brown

    Here they are below, thrown onto the borders to not only make a golden blanket for the plants but to also make a habitat for insects which are then food for birds.  Everybody wins.

    Acer leaves in a cottage garden

    Warmth for the plants and shelter for creatures

    And lastly here below is a small beech shrub in a pot looking fabulous before the leaves drop, after which it’s just a bunch of twigs in a pot until the Spring.

    Colour in the garden

    Bronze beech leaves

    You can read about my colourful garden furniture here when I had a brief spot on BBC TV talking about gardening.  In such a small garden which I look out on every day of the year I get colour from pots, warm bricks, bistro tables and chairs and of course lots and lots of green.

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    4 comments on "Lovely colourful touches in the garden this week."

    1. Jill Anderson says:
      3rd December 2019 at 10:56 am

      Lovely colours! I like the Chinese Lanterns tucked into the Trachelospermum. : )

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      1. Julie Quinn says:
        3rd December 2019 at 5:57 pm

        Thankyou Jill. I would have had them in a vase in the house over winter but we have two new kittens and they would destroy anything in a vase within seconds so I put them outside. They are getting wet unfortunately but worth it to brighten the place up.

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    2. Karen says:
      10th December 2019 at 9:33 pm

      Hiw are your new kittens getting on? I love the miscanthus. Do you know which one it is? Karen x

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      1. Julie Quinn says:
        14th December 2019 at 5:41 pm

        Hello Karen, I think I can look it up in my garden notebook and come back to you. Kittens are a total delight, great fun and getting bigger and lovelier every day. I will send a pic to you somehow. Hope you and your family have a peaceful Christmas , here’s to gardening next year for us all. Julie

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