Just Another Lovely Day

We woke this morning to be greeted by the first real hard frost of the season. As minus 2 had been predicted I had wrapped up all my plants in the porcherie to protect them. It is stacked to the gunnels with hundreds of geranium cuttings and dahlia tubers stored for the winter.

I recently reported that we weren't getting on very well with the autumn garden jobs ... well, we must have been working extra hard because all the bulbs are now in and most of the beds have been cut back ready for winter.

This includes the cut flower bed (ex veg patch) which John has covered with cardboard (some gardening correspondent must have said it was a good idea) and this morning he collected compost from the village recycling depot to cover it. The proof of the success or otherwise of this method of cultivation will be judged by the quality of next years flowers!

By late morning the temperature had risen significantly so, after I had recorded John's efforts, I couldn't resist taking yet more photos of the autumn colours in the garden.

As he had been such a good boy this morning, this afternoon he was allowed to go off with his camera and map to start his new project. I know he plans to follow the river Ceou which runs through our valley but I expect there is far more to it than that. Today, after much tramping through fields he found the source.

Only another 55 kms of river to trace.