Last Autumn

 Confusing isn't it, I'm posting Autumn 2011 in 2012.

Looking back from these dark cold days it was surprisingly green.


The minimal pergola (with hidden gutter taking rainwater to water butt)  is finished and the grape vine on the left is romping away. Next summer, if the current frosts don't kill it, it should be up on the wires and doing its shady work.

It's growing in the old stone trough we unearthed when digging out for the house. The watering can hanging in mid-air is hanging from one end of the cross-wires on the pergola in a bid to straighten the wire out a bit. It didn't work.

I thought the wood cladding would fade to grey, if anything it's getting brighter,

and I still haven't reattached the slips at the back of the house.



 Must check the green roof for beech saplings in the spring.

 Most of the leaves are still to fall.

On the north west side of the house we've put a row of narrow water butts.

They are linked to each other and to a tap at the side of the garage, some 3metres lower.  I'd like to re-do them higher still so I can directly water the areas higher up the garden too.

After spending ages getting the empty butts perfectly level they all went wonky as each one filled in turn. A project for next Spring.