Move aside, summer!

Your time is up, fine summer!

Move aside, if you don’t mind.

It’s time to look around us

And see what we can find.

                                                 Those little signs of autumn

                                                  Easily spotted, when you look.

                                                  And if you can’t identify

                                                  Then go look in a book!

                                               The blackberries are looking good,

                                                So glossy and so juicy.

                                                Pick one! Go on..eat it!

                                                No need to be choosey!                                

                                           

                                             The hips are now so plentiful.

                                             Rose hip syrup..remember that?

                                             Or maybe rose hip tea for you?

                                             A cuppa and a chat!

                                                 Yes, all the signs of autumn

                                                 Are there for us to spy.

                                                 Nature is all around us

                                                 Above the ground; below the sky.

                                                     

                                          

                                               So when you go out walking

                                               Take a look around.

                                               You’ll be amazed at what you find

                                               And the things that do astound.

                                           

                                          But best of all, these wonders

                                          Cost nowt! IT’S ALL FOR FREE!

                                          Nature’s riches are for all of us 

                                          Hips, haws and spindle tree.

                                          Blackberries and Crab Apples

                                          Honeysuckle berries

                                          Damsons, Plums and Sloes

                                          Different wild cherries.

                                          So move aside, dear summer.

                                          Take a break! Have a rest!

                                          Your turn will soon come around but now...

                                          Let Autumn show its best!

                                             

                                            

                                                                                                                 

Peace

 

                  I bet you didn’t know that this beautiful, hybrid tea rose once 

                  had another name!

                  It was once called ‘Madame A. Meilland. 

                  It was developed by a French horticulturalist, Francis Meilland

                  in honour of his mother, Claudia.

                  So how did it become ‘Peace’?

                  The story goes that in 1945, Meilland wrote to Field Marshall Alan Brooke

                  to thank him for his part in the liberation of France and to ask if Brooke

                 would give his name to the rose. However, Brooke declined saying that 

                 his name would soon be forgotten  but a much better name would be....

                 ’Peace’.

Proper job!

 

                               I would be lost without my greenhouse. 

                               Apart from at my first house, which had a tiny garden,

                               I’ve always had a greenhouse...and that means many 

                               years of joy....pleasure....delight! 

                              Last weekend, I cleared out my greenhouse, as my

                              other half offered to give it a good, old spruce up...

                              inside and out..and thoroughly...he even took out 

                              some of the glass. I could almost hear my greenhouse

                              chuckling to itself, in sheer ecstasy! Must’ve been 

                              like going to a beauty parlour and having the full

                              treatment...five star treatment at that!

                       

 

                              After that, the gravelled area was given a few more bags 

                              of gravel; the Belfast sinks were emptied and re- filled; 

                              and various containers were emptied, re- filled and  

                              put into position. One happy greenhouse...

                              and one happy owner.

                              ‘Proper job,’ as we say, here in Devon! 😁