Backyard colour

How does my garden grow ...

with purple sage

with rainbow swiss chard (year 2!)

with variegated sage 

with St. John's Wort (that perked up after the frost damage)

with Japanese red maple (acer) ...
and bamboo in the background

with Pieris 'Forest Flame'

(only £2.99 from the grocer's and ... 

dividing has given me two plants!)

with 'red robin' (reduced to £1.50 at Morrisons: super!)
perhaps a theme here: evergreens with a touch of red

with hardy succulent 'hen and chicks' (Sempervivum tectorumice) 

that divide really well and I use in terrariums

with ice plants (one of several, 

which I divide and multiple each year)

with two rather sad looking fuchsias (that I over-wintered indoors)

and an orange pyracantha (bought from Morrisons, 

only £2 and already divided into two plants)

with one stray purple sprouting broccoli

that survived from last year

... and the ubiquitous clematis 

Onion sets growing, chickory, brocolli, black berry re-growth, new salad bed!

Growth & destruction #2

Growth...

...and destruction

Autumn

Mint transplanted

Spring Onions, chicory & radishes thriving

Spring Onion

Purple sprouting broccoli

Radish

Rocket

Green manure sown:

Mustard, Phacelia, Buckwheat & Clover

Compost working nicely

Bonfire building up

Blixkrieg

Bonfire ready to go; plots dug over in prep for green manure;

compost freshly manured

blighted tomato plants dugup [site problem for toms & tatties]; bed weeded

brambles cut back; path cleared; impromtu fencing

channels dug for land drains: vs incoming Tang Hall tide

Tool Shed

...replete with pooh spade & dibber

Burdale gravel & polytunnnel (in need of fixing)

Turkeytail, bracket fungus (Trametes versicolor)