In my Garden Journal 2024 I have reached November, where I began by writing, “November is all about leaves from its beginning, leaves turning shades of yellow, orange and red, leaves falling creating multi-coloured carpets covering the bark paths.”
Then I shared eight photos of November foliage.
Then we have a double page spread featuring one of my quick watercolour sketches of hypericum berries as they begin to go over, a few already being glossy black. On the opposite page I celebrate those plants that still give colour through their flowers.
“All these beautiful varied hypericum berries are slowly turning black so I decided to sketch the last berries still showing colour.”
I wrote, “In November it’s easy to concentrate on leaf colours and bright berries but we must not forget that many plants are still flowering.”
I then showed nine photos of just such flowers.
Over the next double page spread I take a look at some garden tasks and then consider grasses.
I wrote, “As the weather becomes drier but colder we remain as busy as ever. We finished off Arabella’s Garden and pollarded the quince.”
“Grasses come into their own as the light levels are lower. Our many grasses provide highlights of biscuit, ginger, brown and ivory in their seed heads. The top three photos below show different cultivars of miscanthus.
Panicum “North Wind” (left)
Molinia caerulea ssp. arundinacea ‘Transparent’ (Right)
Hackonechloa macra ‘Nicholas’ no name Stipa tenuissima
Over the page we have another double page featuring more autumn coloured foliage and opposite we look at surprise weather which covered the garden.
I wrote,“In the second half of the month the rich colours of autumn became much brighter.”
The weather is the subject of the final page of my November entries in my Garden Journal 2024.
I noted that, “Within a week of taking the photos on the previous page, the stunning colours were hidden by a fall of snow, first of the season.”
“The garden turns monochrome.”
Hopefully the snow will be short lived and we can defy cold temperatures and get outside again.
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