A walk around Charlotte's Cottage

It's a beautiful Autumn day, the sun is shining, there is a gentle breeze and the recent rain has freshened up the trees and grass. I'd like to tell you that we had a beautiful garden filled with flowers and swathes of green lawn but we don't. What we do have is a lot of big ancient trees, overgrown plumbago hedges and plenty of leaf litter.

A lot of the "collectables" in our garden came with the house. These pots in the old wash tub have roots growing right through the rusted out base.

I love my Luytens teak bench. I hope the white ants busy eating all the timbers around the garden don't get it!

Is this a mushroom? I prefer my fungi in brown paper bags from the greengrocer.

The jasmine is due for a trim and is behaving a little like a Triffid.

A tiny birds nest hidden in this bush. The residents might be back in spring.

No birds in cages around here.