Gunnersbury Triangle’s acid grassland fringed by silver birches on old railway track, in beautiful “Indian Summer” October sunshine. The railway clinker was of hard acidic rock, brought (obviously) by rail, from somewhere up north or out west.One day’s tomato harvest!Cox’s Orange Pippins from the garden
Yes, you couldn’t make it up or improve it with Photoshop, the colours came out like this straight from the camera. The tree is a Red Maple, Acer rubrum, in fact the one planted in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales.Get that for October! Scilla madeirensis in Kew’s Alpine House. Guess you could translate that as the Madeira Squill if you wanted to. The whole bush was this “absolutely fabulous” colour. Euonymus alatus ‘Compactus’Sunny colours in the Alpine House: Eschscholzia californicaThe astounding copper-red of the Northern Pin Oak of New England, Quercus ellipsoidalisAnd for a warm smile to last through the winter, how about these?
The English seem unemotional … except for their passion for nature
