wendyswonderlandgarden

My passion in life is gardening and specifically growing flowers from seed

Category: autumn colours

November 2025

No posts for a while and 2 in 2 days! Sorry for the radio silence. Life was too busy to even do much gardening in the summer and now that I have a lot more time the weather just isn’t suitable. I’m a fair weather gardener although if I’m already out there and it starts to rain then depending on how heavy the rain is I might just finish the job I started.

Anyway, having said all that it has been mild when not raining and I’ve got a lot of my tidying up jobs done.

I had to laugh last week. Daddy is awaiting a hernia operation and we thought it was due towards the end of October. To that end I asked him to put up the bubble wrap inside the greenhouse ready for my plants to overwinter in there. Then a couple of weeks later I realised I normally clean inside and outside first but it’s too late for inside now as the plants are all ensconced in there til spring.

Here are some pictures of autumn colour and flowers currently in the garden

Late November 2022 in my garden

It’s late November, we’ve had thanksgiving and are heading towards Christmas quickly, how prepared are you. It seems a strange time in the garden, I still have summer flowering plants with flowers some for a second time – a Fuschia, hydrangea and Hesperantha (I think it’s changed name again but I can’t keep up).

We haven’t had any frost yet here so my dahlias are still in pots outside. This is the latest by far that they’ve been outside, usually mid October they go to their winter home – the greenhouse and I’m thinking I might put them in anyway. The fact it’s not been so cold is great for the rising heating bills as it means we haven’t really needed it much as yet but it worries me for the garden as we need the proper seasons in order for plants to grow properly. So while I have some summer plants still in flower I also have the hellebores showing their buds and they are about 2 or 3 months early!

Acers in the garden

We tend to grow our Acers in pots as we can give them the soil they like (ericaceous) and also a sheltered position more easily. They are looking so good at the moment apart from a little wind damage.

Wordless Wednesday- forsythia

Wordless Wednesday- Autumn colour

Acers

Wordless Wednesday – alstroemeria

Wordless Wednesday- more autumn colour

Wordless Wednesday- hesperantha

Wordless Wednesday – autumn colour