Return to the Garden

I've absented myself from this blog and to a large extent form the garden this summer. For a change we concentrated on the house and let the garden take care of itself, which it has done very well.

While we had an excellent show of roses in June, the dry start of the summer meant that we did not get much repeat flowering until September.
Autumn colour was also strange this year, it started late and lasted only for a few weeks at the end of October before the leaves dropped off.

Now begins the slow job of clearing the leaves from the paths and gravel areas, before it all disintegrates into a mush.