Mid September

Kelmscott Manor was the country home of William Morris, a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement.  Read more here.  These photographs (taken with permission, and copyright © Stephen Bigger 2015) were taken on 16th September 2015. Click on photographs to enlarge.

This is the last instalment of the 2015 blog. Since the blog runs from recent to older, you will need to click of each moth to see earlier months.

Fruit for sale.

A few pictures show shrubs having a late flush of flowers. This is weigela Bristol Ruby, height about 10 foot.

The pomegranite

Choisa, Mexican Orange Blossom

Geramium Rozanne

Sedum spectabilis, or ice plant

Weigela florida

Hydrangea

Acanthus against the house

Ceratostigma

Lychnis coronaria

 late rose

Late rose by the house door

Cotoniaster

Round the back to the compost heaps, here covered in pumpkins

A bit of a nasty, balsam by the river

Trees now, willows

this one old and hollow,

Horse chestnut near pigsties

A quince

crab apple

maple

apple

mulberry

walnut

willow

tulip tree

with autumn approaching

the vine walkway with ash behind

the crinon lily flowering its heart out

the croquet lawn

the back path

ending with the back of the house with virginia creeper colouring up.