Firmly Refusing December

Snow is gone... and I do not like what was hidden under it. Now it became really the greyish of grey! In this situation I would prefer some 'white' back, but it's fully gone.

So to stay in tune with the season and not go back to summer months and make myself garden-sick, I will just travel in time ONE month.
This is October in my garden and looking at this pictures I realised how beautiful October is.
I truly confess, I like flowers, but look below and tell me you don't like colors of October. Look how nice garden can be dressed up - without it or with just minimum flowers.

From the left: magnolia, hebe, euphorbia, pinus nigra, thuja occidentalis, parthenocissus quinquefolia.

This part looks like real garden and this effect is made not with sea of flowers or perennials. Its main bone is trees growing here: 20 years old pear and about same age picea (on th right, out of frame). This corner has fair amount of shade and sun in the summer and it is filler with flowers all year round - here the flowers of hydrangea paniculata Limelight, planted one year ago - the last survivor before winter. In the pot remaining stems of lilies.

Suddenly this flower bed became 'arranged' with different shades of green and seasonal flowers. This autumn we moved Robinia pseudoaccacia Umbraculifera to this spot in order to make it more 'structural' and to add some height - it was too flat.

There is plenty of this kind of birds in the neighbourhood and daily guest in my garden. They very often bring different kind of nuts or other BIG seeds and hide them for worse days - and in the spring I have always few uninvited oaks :)

Until today I thought this bird is Fringilla coelebs but while looking for link, I realised that it is not! And I feel little bit confused. Let me check in the books...
Or maybe somebody knows and can help..

In previous autumns every little leaf on the gras was an enemy... this year they seemed so nice covering the lawn.

Yellow leaf landed on grey lavandula.

Spirea vanhouttei - some memoirs: grows fast and is beautifully covered with white rows of flowers in June.

Reflections on correcting mistakes

I wish nobody would produce bleu trash cans - cos for hedge I have to wait next 3 years at least :(
Finally winter shows its claws, so work in garden could be abandoned until spring and we can do something else. Eeeeee.... for example... thinking on correcting mistakes in the garden - I can not drop too far from gardening subject, yes? It is was really a lot of heavy work on different subjects and different garden's levels.
Some 'mistakes' are deliberate. I thought - its same amount of work on transplanting small trees, as on annuals. If you count all work every year - it makes nice time spent.
I transplanted many plants this autumn - I counted about 60 now - not everything yet... but I believe I am not alone with this...
Still some to move, but more seriuos ones - rather tree time came. Place them to final sites - that will be a challenge - good some months ahead of me.

Filtering device is still outside, not hidden elegantly yet. Why? No enough time this autumn. There was more emergency cases.

Few thujas - small kind, that are waiting for this privilege on the other side of the garden.
Pond season is ended, so filter can be removed to a safe place in the cellar.

In the buckets on left side there are water plants, that I didn't want to place in the pond, so fish will not eat it. Now I don't know whether to keep them like this through the winter, or to put them to the pond?

These are great trees of neighbours, that made me fall in love with this site and buy the house and non-existing garden... soon years ago.

Very thin cover, rather sugar powder scattered around...

Roses! They can't be seen on the picture, but 'cover' made me remember, that I didn't do anything to protect them for winter. This weekend... its time.