Autumn Interest English Garden Tour 🍁 || Last Light Evening 🌙

Hi, it's Jeanette here from Enthusiastic Gardener and it is Saturday the 30th of October. The clocks change tonight. It's 10 to 5 in the afternoon and this is the last time it's going to be light at 10 to 5 and it's just such a beautiful, beautiful evening. I just thought I'll come out quickly and give you a quick look around the garden because it just looks so pretty. So it's definitely, definitely getting autumnal. You can see the leaves all beginning to fall. There will be many, many more but it's just so pretty. Everything's turning colours. Of course, I took all my annuals out if you saw that video. That was a sad, sad moment. I had hoped to plant all my bulbs this morning but it absolutely poured down. And as you know, I only get the weekends to do any gardening, like many people, and it is very disappointing when you're hoping to do a certain job and it doesn't happen. But that is the time of year. It's to be expected. I will need to take these begonias in to do something with them. I need to Google what do I do with the begonias. I think I need to save the corns. There's still a lot of colour around here. We've got the buddleja. That will need chopping down. My fuchsias, still very, very colourful. And at the back, the orange of the alstroemeria. We've still got bumblebees on the plants. In fact, let's go round the corner. Where did he go? There he is. It's just such a pretty evening. My vanilla frays have gone beautiful and pink. And one of the other jobs that I've wanted to do, I wanted to divide this crocosmia because it's been in there three or four years, needs to be divided. These are just emptied pots that I need to spread around. Now this here, this was supposed to be magnificent. It's the Gunnera manicata. I don't think it's very happy here. I thought it was going to get enormous and fill this whole area. But that's not happened. I'm still trying to decide what to do here. Now I have an idea, but Richard is against my idea. So we shall see. My aralia elata, very beautiful colour. I've moved my glass plants. They're the glass ones I got from the antique shop. So mum and I have seven each. So I have the space for the bulbs. I don't know if I'll be able to do it tomorrow. Alexa said we have an 87% chance of rain tomorrow. So I don't think the bulbs are going in tomorrow. The mahonia that I trimmed recently, it's doing very well. I'm so glad I did that. And I have one, no, I have two roses left. I don't know what these roses are. Now we went to the garden centre today because it was raining. More beautiful begonias. Aren't they lovely? And another hydrangea. It's gone the beautiful antique, antique pink colour. Yes, we went to the garden centre today and we were looking for a cover for the fountain. Well, I'm not very happy with this. It needs some adjusting. It's a cover for a barbecue. It was the most similar size to our fountain. Well, I think it just needs, I need to do something to it because I said to Richard, he's going, that's fine. That's absolutely fine. It's a cover. I said, I've got to look at it for six months. It's just too long. So I need to kind of, well, adjust it somehow, which I will think about that. But my heucheras, very lovely. My Chinese plumbago, it's going a beautiful autumn colour. That's very gorgeous. And another exciting happening. That is very beautiful, actually. Very beautiful. Something else that's turning beautiful colour is this, the dogwood. That is going beautiful colours. And the stems as well. I hope they will look lovely this year. It's a Cornus alba sibirica. And we're getting all the little flowers on the Fatsia japonica. How pretty are they? Now these come up this time of year. And then what happens is they will turn later into little black berries. Very pretty. And then when they finished in the springtime, the very, very new little leaves come right down here. Love that plant. And here we have the limelight hydrangea. The blooms didn't grow so big on this this year. I don't think this is happy here. It's in full sun. I don't get huge blooms like I see other people get. I have bloom envy. Probably need to get proper fertiliser. Just beginning to get dark now. Lot of people walking the other side of the fence. It's looking beautiful and autumnal. This is very pretty. It was a hebe. Well, it still is. It was an enormous big bush. And I chopped it up and made it into a little topiary ball. And I will shape it a little bit better. But I think that's come out very nice because it was rather an ordinary looking, just a little shrubby bush. And as you know, I do like topiaries. So there we are. I had to share it with you. The clocks go back tonight. We'll get an extra hour in bed, except I won't, because animals don't understand an extra hour in bed. So the light is fading now and it's kind of end of an era the day the clocks change. And there you go. That's seasons for you. I didn't realise that quite a lot of countries do change their clocks. I thought it was a UK thing. It was only when I googled it, because I was thinking, do the clocks go forward or do the clocks go back? Every time I'm confused. And I realised that many, many countries do. But funnily enough, all the USA countries are next weekend on the 7th. I don't know why we don't all do it at the same time. And apparently there's a couple of Hawaii. And what was the other one? Was it Alaska? No, I can't remember. I'll put it on the screen. Two territories or states, beg your pardon, in America don't change their clocks. It's all very bizarre. And why don't we do it on the same day? And who thought of this anyway? I'm Jeanette. I'm the enthusiastic gardener. I just thought let's capture the day that the clocks change. I hope you're having fun in your gardens and I will see you soon. Thank you for watching. Bye.