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Falling Autumn

Today the Autumn sun is shining and it is 14C.   I have been rather silent
lately
as there have been private matters happening every week.   The gardens are
becoming rather sad at my neglect but still manage to give joy with the last
brilliant leaves clinging to the branches, white nerines shining in large
clumps [I do like those plants that remain happy in the one spot, year
after year] the furry buds on the Magnolias and michelias hint at the
beauty to come and Camelia sasanqua will delight us perhaps next week.
One has a delicate pale silver pink already looking around.
The Rhododendrons are dressed with fat buds, looks like it will be
a good year for them.   
The crinum lilies are perfuming both gardens with that unbelievable
scent and, writing of perfume, the buds on the Luculia gratissima [the Queen
of winter perfume] show pink already.   The first violets  are peeping
out at the Autum world and the daffodillies have pushed through the
dark earth [not the hundreds planted under the white chestnut tree]
and I actually saw an "egg and bacon" in flower.   We still have quite
a show of David Austin Heritage roses showing off and that marvellous
rambler "Seafoam" [so easy to get cuttings from] is covered with white, flushed
pink blooms, the blush so much darker in its Autumn flowering.
I wonder if we will have Winter this year?   I know I am going to rue
asking this in a few weeks time!
Gay Klok, 2 Red Chapel Ave, Hobart, Tasmania - "Kibbenjelok", Middleton,
Tasmania
http://members.tripod.com/~klok/WRINKLY_.HTM 
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