Conservation grazing has become a familiar sight in nature reserves.

 

 What is this? A single flower that has just appeared in the kitchen garden, not something I planted. I can't recall ever having seen such a flower before. No doubt there are apps that will tell me but where's the fun in that?

 

 The weather is still warm enough for bees to forage and they seek out what flowers there are. Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) is generally described as spring flowering but a late - or early? - flush of flowers often appears in autumn and even through the winter .

 

 Ivy in flower- the last abundant source of pollen and nectar as summer turns to autumn.

 Autumn (and spring) is the time to transplant when most plants are semi-dormant. The key is to get as much of the root as possible. Globe Thistle grows well at the music school; I wanted to fill a gap in one of the borders so I separated this specimen from a cluster. 

 Autumn is the season of seeds, whether by self-seeding or seed collecting.

 Always a fleeting pleasure when sunlight catches Cyclamen hederifolium in a woodland setting. One of the few plants that flowers in a shady spot in late summer/early autumn.