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| Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec | Nature in the garden |
 The Garden in
November
November is a mixed bag of a month, with some warm sun, but frosty nights are increasing. Some flowers struggle on, but now is a time to resist being a tidy gardener, and to leave seed heads and browned stems in place. The seed deads of some Centaurea, like C.macrocephala, are very obliging in the damp November conditions, holding their seeds until they begin to germinate making them easy to collect and prick out into seed trays. |
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  Eryngium eburneum has evergreen rosettes of spiny leaves and tall candelabra seed heads that are draped in webs and dusted with frost. It is very hardy. |
 Acer
davidii "Serpentine" is a lovely Snake's Bark Maple with red
and grey bark and coral red young stems. It loses its leaves at the first
hard frost revealing its winter bark glory. |
Cornus "Midwinter Winter" will have glowing orange stems throughout the winter months, but now it is clothed in golden leaves. |
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Euphorbia characias looks great all year. The bending over of the growing points signals the formation of "flower" buds which will brighten the garden from February. |
 Euphorbia
rigida has beautiful glaucous blue-green leaves all year. The
radiating stems make an excellent backdrop to more showy plants in the
summer. Now it is coming into its own. |
 Euphorbia
x.pasteurii is a large shrubby plant. Far more hardy than its
pollen parent E. melifera, it has honey scented flowers and elegant leaves. |
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