Thank you, Neil.

Maples in the garden.

Neil.

Beautiful.

Some nice warm color this sleepy Sunday morning (well, it's morning here ) Took this photo yesterday afternoon.

Orange Harvest

Dear Debra, fantastic as usual! What a lovely thing to see, thank you!

Neil.

You are welcome, Neil.

The weather is appalling here! Torrential ice cold rain and high winds, awful.
Hope you are well?

Neil.

I am so sorry, Neil. We need rain, here, but not like that. Have a bit of photographic sunshine, both images taken 11-17.

Gizmo Rose


Just Joey Rose

Quiet weather all week long. Perhaps after tomorrow, our Thanksgiving harvest festival I can finish cutting the siberian iris foliage. So much slower than I used to be & like warmer weather to do so.
Hang in there, Neil.

We are OK but please, you Keep warm!

We should be used to 40F, but it is the north wind and rain that is making it so cold out there. More flood warnings all day, as the rivers are full now! The ground is saturated and so the really high winds are bringing trees down, all over the place.
Have a great Thanksgiving day and don't eat too much!

Neil.

There is growing concern all over the UK about Ash die-back disease caused by the Chalara fraxinea fungus. Denmark has lost 90% of its Ash trees very quickly due to this fungus! Like Dutch Elm disease it has now hit the UK from imported saplings to a Scottish nursery, some 200,000. These were planted in Scotland and Northern Ireland and it has been confirmed to infected parts of East Anglia already.
It does not kill all the Ash trees and the hope is the miracle tress as they are called can give seed that saplings can be grown from that are immune from the disease.
This is terrible news for forestry and the environment, let alone gardens with specimen Ash trees in.
Regards.
Neil.

Sorry to hear, Neil. In Rochester, NY there was a very elegant street, East Avenue, that WAS lined with beautiful elms, weeping together to form an arbor for the street. It was quite a sight. And again, operative word is WAS. It was a terrible loss for our city and so many others. Hope you can get a handle on this fungus.

Hugs

Dear all, then another problem we have is a north American plant called Floating pennywort or Hydrocotyle ranunculoides
This is clogging our waterways and killing our fish stocks off. So far it is costing £25 million a year for some of its removal, a lot is being done by volunteers as well. It is a nightmare.
Regards.
Neil.
p.s. This is a river and is clogged. Animals are dying in it as they think it is solid, and it is not!

Brass monkey weather here and started to snow last night, but it did not settle. Hot soup and a few wee drams weather!

Neil.

Blooming today.

Beautiful pictures!!!!!

December in Texas is one of the many reasons I put up with August in Texas.

Wow the only thing we have got here is ice!
Lovely photos, you are a star!

Neil.

Overcast today, but still some color in the yard.

Black Eyed Stella


Gerberas


Agastache Summer Love. More pink than this photo shows.