The autumn decay continues, amidst some oddly warm weather. I’ve focused on form this week. here are some slightly spooky snaps of the garden to celebrate the season.

I’ve had a good look round, few flowers now, but the anemone seedbeds pop out like mini lollipops.

Much more colour can be found in what was left when I cleared out by runner beans. They were very late this year, so late that I missed rather a lot. I have harvested the seeds, some for next year’s planting, some for adding to soups in winter. What amazing colours!

Plomus do very well here and I’ve always enjoyed their rather elegant look, which continues into autumn and winter with stately seed heads.

Back to some colour now. It appears that our cold, damp and fairly miserable summer has provided the perfect conditions for growing Swiss chard. The leaves on many are almost 50cm long this year. Not sure why, but the red one amidst the greens does seem a bit spooky, sort of.

Another firm favourite on the seeded front, teasel have had a good year here too. I’m hoping for more self-seeders next year.

To finish up, the remaining nasturtiums have just the right colour for this time of year, bright, cheerful and Halloweeny.

I hope you enjoyed my slightly spooky selection as much as I have. Need to keep up our spirits as the clocks change and the dark really comes in. And thanks to those leaving comments on the blog – sorry if I don’t always get back to you on time! The blog is going well, but it would be great if more folk on Mastodon, or other parts of the Fediverse got into tooting a Six! Go on, it’s a much kinder form of social media, not controlled by crazy billionaires. All you need to do is find 6 things in your garden to show us. Then post on social, or add a link at Jim’s blog below. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https://gardenruminations.co.uk/. And I’m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot