With a new garden it’s interesting to see what it brings each month, and this month I have more pictures than perhaps I would usually take in a normal December. Though building on last month’s update, they’re mostly of frosty leaves, frosty spider webs and the snow which arrived one Saturday night cloaking the garden in a white blanket.
The frosty cobwebs aren’t without charm though…
But if only they’d have been a month or two earlier I could have legitimately claimed them as Halloween decorations!
And yes, MOH was wrong when he suggested there’d be less spiders here than in our London home - luckily that wasn’t what sold me on the move!
The lone leaves on the acer were clinging on, and doing so in spectacular form.
They weren’t the only ones looking slightly frozen, and while the acer leaves are spectacular for their colour, I think the iced fuchsia flowers just take the iced plant prize for me.
Though somehow the mahonia still managed to look quite majestic with snow trying its best to dull its crown.
But despite the snow I did get some bulbs potted up (later than I’d like and I’ve still some more to do), hang my Christmas/Winter wreath and repurpose my autumn wreath - I’m grateful for being able to take advantage of the days with the better weather, and in daylight too, it makes such a difference.