December in the garden

This is early December when we had a frosty morning . Then the rains came !  

I haven't taken any photos of the garden recently, far too mucky . 

Making Aluminum plant trays

I needed a plant tray to fit  the bottom of my high humidity mostly Orchid  inclosure  .  It's an odd size , and I have been using a boot tray , but I thought it could use a custom made one to make the most of the space.
So my favorite house plant book  came in handy , with instructions for just that project. 

I did make a start , but then decided Philip would be better at following instructions, measuring, cutting , bending metal  into a " bread pan" fold .

This is a "bread pan" fold . 

The finished fold !

And here it is ! And a very nice  water tight fit .   Thank you  Ernesta Drinker Ballard and Philip !

November in the garden

Not everything has collapsed with the first wack of cold weather , but quite a lot  !

The mashed up  shade garden ! I 'll leave it  melt down on it's own .

The best seed heads  on Clematis Helios 

More October blooms

Emilia javanica 

More late blooms ,  before they are all finished , this time the front garden . 

Penstemon 'Enor'

Iris 'waxen beauty'
  I've been helping out at  ' Aikens Iris garden in Vancouver all summer. At this time of year they have a cull of the Iris that are to be dropped from the catalog . Terry the owner was sad about loosing one of his own hybrids  'Waxen beauty ' , so one of them came home with me ! It's a re-bloomer  . I think It's growing on me .

Cosmos Lemonade

Cosmos Rubenza

Salvis Gregii

Nigella

Rosa Radway sunrise

Rosemary arp

Choisya and friend

Cosmos summer dreams

Rosa Surrey

Nicotiana langdorfii

 Red Salvia 

And this one !