These are the flowers we had in the garden in early autumn 2020, taken on 20 March 2020. They're not all overly pretty, but the purpose of the photos
is to record what was in the garden at the time.
We barely had any summer, but we've had plenty of rain, and in particular the lawn shows
it—exactly when we had sold our ride-on mower and entrusted the lawn mowing to our gardener
Mick Solly, who then got sick and whose own mower then failed. So we have the unusual
situation of lots of long grass at the beginning of autumn. That's most obvious round
our Box elder:
Other trees in the front garden are also doing better than in previous years.
The Paulownia kawakamii is
not only flourishing, it has also produced a sucker:
That part of the garden is particularly crowded now, at least partially because of the
tomatoes (which are only now starting to give any reasonable quantity of fruit) and
the cannas. I hope that the
Hibiscus will survive this winter better, and then we'll try to give it a little more space.
The parent tree is still recovering from its rather drastic repotting a couple of months ago:
It's showing signs of recovery, though one of the branches has clearly given up the ghost.
And the curry tree that I repotted is
looking much better, as are the cuttings that I made:
On the other hand, as I feared, the
last Buddleja × weyeriana
has died. It really happened quickly, and I don't know why. Here photos from two months ago (first two), a month ago and today (last two):