WILD WAY: NOVEMBER 2022

13 SUPER LATE FLOWERS, CRAB APPLES, ASTERS, FUCHSIA & FUNGI

Our garden is situated on a hill with moors above us and woodland below us, there’s no escaping the influence of these on our garden plonked in the middle.

I was at a large, traditionally planted, public garden recently and I could feel myself actively repelled by the hodgepodge of harsh colours from the cultivated autumn leaves mixed together. Everything was too bright with jarring contrast. It was too much to my eyes; unnatural.

In the photo above of the local woodland canopy, the autumn colours slowly change and work with one another in a subtle mix of ochre and umber alongside the remaining shades of green.

We have some lovely autumn colour in the garden, all weighted to the right-hand side where the original border was. On the left the semi-evergreen privet hedge dominates, acting as a barrier between garden and the moor and woodland canopy colours beyond.