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Six splashes of colour in the sunshine – Saturday October 20th 2018


October 21st, 2018 - Pots and containers, Wildlife gardening

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Six colourful images taken in the sunshine this weekend…

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Purple, yellow and red in the front garden

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A hardy fuchsia I’ve dug out many times because it got too huge but it keeps coming back and now it looks great –

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Colour from simple plants – purple basil and sedum

 

Here is the fancy mahonia I showed you last time with interesting flowers

mahonia shrub in a cottage garden

Evergreen shiny foliage and scented flowers  

but now all the flowers have dropped off.  No idea why.

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Sunshine through the grasses and geranium Rozanne in the foreground

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Some yellow pots, a purple table and a Burmese blue old gentleman.

Thankyou to the propagator who hosts this theme of Six on a Saturday of any six things in our garden.  Over on his blog you can find other people’s sixes.

Happy autumn to us all and aren’t we so lucky to have this wonderful weather each day. Fingers crossed.

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