Bramley Apples

A bumper crop of red and green apples that fall beautifully when cooked and taste delicious. There are a lot more to be picked and stored, hopefully lasting until after Christmas. Moved both arc shelters in with the sheep, they had a nibble of the edges with no success and settled down between them to chew the cud before moving off to graze. A family of four deer were in the field until quite late, they had to watch out for traffic in the lane before crossing into the copse. Trimmed the wisteria, some of the leaders had grown 20 feet or more outwards and sideways. A cool showery start to the day with bright sunshine later and a clear red sunset.

Wisteria Sinensis

Well established, lovely scent but the cold wind is stripping the pendants, flowers can be made into an aromatic wine, don’t think I’ll try it. Nice and warm in the greenhouse and there are lots of hungry fish in the pond, tadpoles growing, don’t think there are as many as last year. Forget-me-nots seeding everywhere and the seeds embed themselves in Poppy’s fur, very difficult to get out. Another two raised beds nearly full of donkey poo, will plant courgettes in one of them. Rose buds bursting, the first flowers of the climbing rose have been nipped off by the deer, those higher up have survived ok.