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A green winter coat for the cabin roses

The cabin roses are almost done for the year. Now it is time to cover them in a green winter coat.

Rose hips in the cabin garden

Last summer we found two small wild roses near where we usually go for fishing. Terje helped me move them to a bed in front of the cabin, and this summer it gave us roses. The first thing I saw Thursday afternoon when we arrived were the rose hips. They greeted me - welcome to the cabin, we are sorry the week-end is cold and wet, but forget that, look at our colours, look at our beauty. Nature needs all season, it is for you to hug them all!

I was tempted to pick a few branches but decided against it. Sometimes beauty is best just where it is created. For the birds and the deers to enjoy.

More than 100 years ago, in 1905, Edith Holden writes her "The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady  (the title she hersafs gave her book was "Nature Notes 1905). On October 12, 1905 she wrote:

There is some find timber in the park itself, a grove of Birch trees looked lovely - the tiny leaves on the pendant branches looked like showers of gold. The rabbits were scurrying about everywhere; and I saw flocks of Thrushes and finches busy with the Hawthorn berries; I heard a Woodpecker laughing somewhere among the trees. The birds are beginning to sing again now; I heard several Robins on my way. I discovered two Sloe-berries on a bush and brought them home in triumph. The Knapweed and pink Campion are still in bloom, the latter very small and plae and I noticed a great many blossoms of the Procumbent Speedwell in one field.

Edith Holden has a beautiful painting for rose hips, or is it the sloe.berries.....

Phots: from my cabin rose garden

Cabin rose in late autumn

A few, very few, late roses met us when we arrived at the cabin last night. It is raining all week-end, but when the pouring rain had a short brake I was out to shoot photos.

Cabin roses are always beautiful, worth savouring for a long winter. 

Too late for the tomatoes now

Prepared

A basket filled with acorns. Great for barbeque during the summer months. Now perfect for decoration.

Frozen rose

 

End of season for the plum tree

Our plum tree, the one which gave us three plums this year, has done its job for this season. Now the leaves are falling, one by one. The branches look dead, but if I look closer there are signs of hope, signs of a new life.

A garden walk in autumn can be an exciting experience. It is almost too dark in the mornings, before work, but still daylight in the afternoons.

Maple red shines best in the autumn sun.

Though we've had several nights with frost now, the red Maple holds her leaves tight. When the low autumn sun hits the leaves, the red shines like fire.

The leaves make a filligree pattern.....I would love a curtain like this in my upstairs studio.

It is Sunday, it is autumn and the garden is ready for a long winter. I have gathered my garden books, my garden magazines, preparing myself for a long winter.

Blue Garden ready for Winter

I am trying to gather all my blogs here at typepad. Britt-Arnhild's Blue Garden over at blogspot is now history, Britt-Arnhild's Blue Garden here at typepad is just born.

Welcome over....for a garden walk, to enjoy stories and photos, to share ideas, to enjoy a cup of tea or just to sit down to smell the roses.