Let me take you down the garden design rabbit hole, since these deep seams are what Bluesky is good for. I designed in a hidden sitting spot for my client and chose the floofy-headed grasses to catch the low autumn light. Design is problem solving with beauty. He’s embraced by plants in the sun.

Leave dead wood.

If you’re blessed to have an ancient tree, leave it

The gift to wildlife is huge and look, it’s like the wildest beast just lurking there. An art piece for free.

When ice freezes slowly and steadily it can form these dendrites, these branches. This ice says you knew I was coming and ought to have brought the banana plants into the conservatory. Reader, I did.

You are not asleep and neither is the garden. Maybe you wish it was asleep, because it’s cold out there. But there is so much going on. It’s still worth grounding barefoot in these temperatures. I find I feel even more alive. The decline of blooms is more exciting than the budding IMO.

As a garden designer, I am all for gardens that lift you and connect. This is one of my favourites, Great Dixter, in East Sussex. Do you have a garden that touches your soul and lifts you up?

It’s the season for deep breaths and quiet pacing in churchyards.