Autumn colours and smells from the Katsura tree.

 

Cercidiphyllum japonicum 'Katsura' is a fabulous tree that will fill your garden with a spectacular sight and fragrance during the autumn. Also known as a Toffee Apple Tree, it produces the most beautiful heart-shaped leaves that turn from green to incredible shades of purple, pink, red and yellow before finally falling to the ground, this is when you can enjoy the delicious and distinctive fragrance of fairground candy floss or sweet toffee apple, hence its name. 

White Swan

 

Japanese Anemone - White swan has pure white flowers with a blue reverse and flourishes in dappled shade. A great addition to the garden it started flowering in July and still full of flowers in mid-October. Winner of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year Award in 2011.

In the bleak midwinter

 

On a roll with photography competitions this year. Just received my selector's medal from the Royal Photographic Society’s Digital group with this image “In the Bleak Midwinter”.