The golden walnut.

Autumn colour resplendent, the humble walnut (Juglans regia). This beautiful peedie walnut tree sent through the post from a chum, to start our home grown 'orchard'. This little beauty is for pesto making in the future - walnuts make most excellent pesto. Isn't he gorgeous? Colouring up beautifully, OK so he's spent the summer growing in a polytunnel but its looking amazing. And, its come 'home' to the courtyard garden, although I'll not plant it 'til early spring when its budded up again, repotting after September outdoors in our climate isn't really much fun for the plants. Best leave that til early next year.

 

I think the courtyard garden will be a mixture of edibles and pretties or pretty edibles, and this comes into both categories, don't you agree? I don't think I could ever have a garden I didn't want to eat. Unelss maybe it was a cactus garden!

There's been a lot of chat on the radio (Scotland) regarding where best to see autumn colour, Dunkeld and Perthshire hailed as being one of the many respendent wooded areas around Scotland, when we were south, autumn was just peeking through.  So, might see more of that later in the month, but for the moment whilst its not an arboretum - at least I've got some autumn colour at home now!

{And the birds are finally discovering the bird table too - bonus! Although I must plant up more shrubby cover for them in pots to get them to feel happier........}