And treasure stored away.... This was some of last year's harvest from malus transitoria. I sieved this bin last week and spread it as a mulch on a woodland border.
Like @Nollie my garden is trying to put on summer colour. After the heat of the last three months when the plants just shut down they are now invigorating themselves with what little rain we have had, and the temperature is around 27 deg today, so not much autumn colour here apart from the Sedums.
You have some beautiful mature trees @Woodgreen and such spectacular colours. Here my best autumn colour comes from a persimmon tree. I shall also be wheeling my potted coral bark acer Bi-Hoo out from the deep shade soon, but proper autumn is some way off.
My dark purple Loropetalum is showing some variable leaf colour, but this is actually heat induced so another cheat!
@floralies sounds as if we’ve had a similar year so far. Here it felt like autumn in summer with trees dropping their leaves and now it feels like summer in autumn after a rainy September. 30-40c is my normal July-August temperature range but this year was far hotter and pretty horrendous, so it’s a relief to be currently enjoying pleasantly mild sunny days in the garden.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I hope you'll post some photos of the acer and persimmon when they're in their autumn finery @Nollie, though in this strangest of years, maybe it will be winter finery!
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This was some of last year's harvest from malus transitoria. I sieved this bin last week and spread it as a mulch on a woodland border.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Even a tiny patio garden can have its final blaze of glory, without necessarily using trees and shrubs.
@floralies sounds as if we’ve had a similar year so far. Here it felt like autumn in summer with trees dropping their leaves and now it feels like summer in autumn after a rainy September. 30-40c is my normal July-August temperature range but this year was far hotter and pretty horrendous, so it’s a relief to be currently enjoying pleasantly mild sunny days in the garden.