The delivery from Shipton Bulbs also included 5 Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum multiflorum) in the form of knobbly rooty rhizomes with a claw-like tip.

 Delivery from Shipton Bulbs last week: 100 Ramsons aka Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum), 100 spring flowering Crocus (C. tommasinianus), 50 autumn flowering Crocus (C. siebeiri), 5 Stinking Iris (Iris foetidissima) and 5 Dame's Violet (Hesperis matronalis). September has flown by. I've been planning on planting a good many bulbs but I've barely got started!

Autumn, raking sun and long shadows.

 

Late afternoon, late September.

 The Red Admiral can be spotted well into autumn on warm, sunny days. I notice they seem to favour the leaves of Fig trees when available as a platform to bask on.

 

 The well-tempered compost heap. Some greens, some browns, some vegetable peelings and a pitchfork to turn it over.

 

As autumn sets in the bees are seeking out the last flowers of summer.