This is now the tenth visit we have made to photograph and report on the show gardens at one of the largest garden centres in Europe, Bridgemere. Now that October is over half way through its allotted days we are expecting lots of foliage colours and colourful perennials still performing well for us.
We soon realised we were not going to be disappointed! The only trouble was that we had to dress for colder weather. The Cottage Garden was, as always, good to look at. Dahlias also had a continued colourful presence alongside tall dried seed heads of perennials. From the Cottage Garden we enjoyed a good view of a circular orange dahlia bed and the pair of fastigiate beech trees behind it.
Below is a photo gallery of perennials and grasses
We can’t look at the garden without mentioning autumn colours of trees and shrubs – the yellows, russets, biscuits, oranges, reds and the occasional purple. There are plenty of acers here and they always look beautiful whatever time of the year it is, but they really colour up in autumn.
Look carefully at the photo on bottom right and you will see the domed shape of the acer reflected in the shape of the expertly trimmed dome of box.
I will now finish off this report of the garden here at Bridgemere with the colours of autumn on shrubs and trees other than acers.
I will return in November to report on our next visit to this lovely group of show gardens.
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