Well it seems autumn has come early to Ty Glyn, perhaps the weather this year or perhaps because a walled garden likes to be ahead!

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Rosa moyesii

with a good crop of hips.

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Viburnum

with gorgeous clusters of glossy berries.

We’ve been busy harvesting our onions and shallots, with beans giving us their usual glut and also our plum tree produced some very tasty fruit this summer too.

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Delicious West Wales grown plums.

We have also been picking cut flowers for sale now from our cut flower patch, the rain has finally allowed the plants to put some growth on on our heavy clay soil.

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We are also trialling growing green manures which will grow over the winter, then they will be cut and dug back into the ground to improve soil fertility and structure. Those of you who have been to the garden lately will notice the proliferation of netted structures covering the plants this is due to our friend Peter Rabbit. Judging by his girth when I saw him recently he will soon be sufficiently large that I will be able to catch him and remove him at walking pace!

Keep watching the garden though as we were fortunate enough to receive a small grant towards replanting and we will be starting to add late summer flowering plants to the garden to improve the design of the flowerbeds and increase their period of interest.