November 2024 – GWENNIESGARDENWORLD

November 25, 2024November 25, 2024

BONKERS

The weather is completely bonkers, we went from freezing temperatures with snow, hail, sleet, storms and pouring raining to Spring overnight !!! Yesterday it was such a lovely Spring day with temperatures up to 18 C°, it was the “hottest” 24th of November ever ! It was good enough to sit outside on the patio for lunch or for afternoon tea, alas I do not have a patio yet, the bedding was laid a week ago but ever since it was too wet to lay the tiles. But I did a bit of work in the garden. Cos of the frost and the wind all the leafs came down.

As you can see my fig tree is still full of figs, unripe and not edible.

Here’s another part of the same fig tree.

When the patio is finished we’ll ask the gardener to do a lot of pruning everywhere in the garden, and a few tree’s must go as I want working in the garden to be easier for me, it is just getting too much, as you all know I am not a Spring chicken anymore. Ha !!

I’ll sent pictures of the finished patio and the pruned garden as soon as I can take pictures, when that will be will totally depend on the weather. We used to have 4 seasons, now we still have 4 seasons but they come unpredicted, a Summers day or two, Autumn for a day, then Winter for a few days and then all of a sudden Spring !!!

Have a great week all !!

November 19, 2024

MY CALLICARPA

I have a bush in the garden who gives lovely purple berries in Autumn, it really looks awesome. I couldn’t get a picture of the bush as it didn’t have the right background, every other bush has ugly leafs now and the leafs are falling, so I took a small branch and put it in a small vase.

This is a small branch of the Callicarpa bodinieri.

I hope your Winter will be good ! Take care !

November 10, 2024

SILENT SUNDAY

November 1, 2024

THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER

Today we remember our relatives and friends who died, it is a day people over here are free of work. We bring flowers to their graves. Not that we don’t remember them during the rest of the year but it is a custom here. My mother-in-law died a few weeks ago and she loved bold and colorful things so I bought her a plant with big bright yellow flowers to put on her grave. I know she’d love that.

It is a member of the chrysanthemum family.

And they finally started working on my new patio. Cos of all the rainy weather we had this year the work couldn’t get started but now we are getting two whole weeks without a drop (at least that’s what they promised us). Today the workers came and removed the top layer, my husband and son removed the tiles last week. This is how my patio looked this morning after the workers started.

The workers did a good job, they removed all the rubble and next week the groundlayer will be layed and that needs to dry for at least a week before they can start with the tiles.

I am already looking forward to Spring !!!!

Have a great weekend .