Calling All Botanists...

Name that flower!

Back in the spring, we bought a cheap packet of bulbs from the supermarket in the hope of bringing a little diversity to our garden. We've seen little from them all summer apart from a few might-be-weeds / might-be-leaves and had pretty much given up on any explosions of colour... until now, in our Autumn heatwave (hottest day of the year on Saturday - and they say the climate's not messed up)...

Of course, we long ago threw away the bulb packet so have no idea just what it was that we planted... but it's the most beautiful and exotic flower we've had in our garden all year. And it lived just one day before closing up and dying.

Any ideas?

A Walk In The Autumn Woods

You know how when you get a day off it always rains but when you go back to work the sun shines again?

Last week, the law of sod went in the other direction. Tuesday, it hissed it down. Thursday, there was a storm of biblical proprotions. Wednesday, when I was lucky enough to get a day off, the sun shone on the righteous.

So I went out for a walk in the woods and enjoyed the colours of Autumn... which I shall now share with you here, in lieu of anything more interesting to write about on a Monday.