Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
I guess as gardeners, we all measure the passing of the year by the behaviour of certain plants – the arrival of the hellebores, the emerging of tulips, the long-awaited first bloom on the paeonies. In spite of being comfortably into the final third of the season, autumn doesn’t really land with me till the acer starts to lose its leaves, and in recent years, ours – a beautiful purple leaved Japanese maple (Acer palmatum ‘Bloodgood’) that was a present for my thirtieth birthday, and made its way here from our previous garden – hangs on until the first or second week of November before releasing them to the wind. And as the acer lets go, so must we.
A year of garden coaching
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
