There isn’t much bloom left in the garden these days. The sweet peas are clinging on to their last flowers, and the rudbeckias are doing their best in front of the covered terrace – but they will look much more impressive next year when they’ve settled in more!
And then there are the dahlias in The Sunny Border. They just won’t quit!
The colour combinations are completely random, as these were grown from mixed-seed packets, but I might label some of them so I know where they will look their best next year. For instance, the coral on in front definitely looks out of place with all the whites and the pastels, so it should perhaps be given a spot in a different bed next year….
The prettiest part of the garden right now, though, is probably the lawn. A few areas are still green because there are no large trees or shrubs nearby, but large swathes are coloured brown with oak leaves, yellow with mirabelle leaves or purple with cherry plum leaves.
And in some places, like the photo above, a few cherry plum leaves dot the yellow surface of mirabelle leaves and create quite a beautiful spectacle in their own subtle way. I think it is quite the loveliest thing in my garden, even surpassing my much-beloved dahlias right now. -Though probably not so much when I start raking them up… That will be quite a job! And of course the dahlias need to be dug up, probably next week once the first frost has killed off the plants above ground level. And the lawn really needs a final (high) mowing. And spring bulbs need planting. And I’m sure there is much else to do, but right now I am sitting by a warm fire, enjoying the sound of the wind shaking the trees and the sight of my yellow lawn with purple dots.
Your grass is just gorgeous with the leaves…I have been admiring ours too but now it is swept up to use in beds as mulch.
The leaves will disappear with the final mowing of the lawn and will then be used in beds and borders. I won’t get around to doing that, though, before I have finished painting the backside of the annex so I can move all the random stuff that normally lives there back, rather than let it be scattered over the lawn as it is now… So I will enjoy my coloured lawn just a bit longer!
I love the lawn, beautiful. sometimes nature does it best. Just think of all the leaf mould as well when you rake it up. Dahlias are incredible the way they keep going once they start flowering. Are you going to lift the tubers and store them for next year?
Of COURSE I’m going to lift the dahlia tubers! After all, I grew these from seeds in the windows of our city apartment, so I feel rather attached to them. (Also, my grandmother said that dahlias grown from seed in Denmark can’t possibly produce viable tubers, so clearly it will be quite a feather in my cap to prove her – ex-board member of the Danish Horticultural Society’s regional branch in Funen and with impeccable gardening acumen – wrong.)
But yes, the leaves will be a great addition to my beds and borders; anything that will bulk up the soil is always welcome…
Your yellow lawn with purple leaves is beautiful. Nature is such an artist!
The leaves really are lovely, and new ones are added every second… The trees are beginning to look a bit naked, though, but you can’t have it all.