It was a bit colder today and next week temperatures are due to drop to give us our first frosts. Therefore no deadheading at all. I found the last coconut of last season in the shed and put that up on the fence.

Something had had a little poke at the corner of the bug hotel, displacing a few bits of wood. I pushed them back in to place and noticed that the big terracotta pot had an amount of grass growing on it. In pulling that out I found that the bluebell bulbs have actually started to sprout. So maybe  they’ll do something next spring?

I weeded the fern bed, which wasn’t too difficult. The next job there will be to add a bit more bark. I found some new fungus – yellow stag horn, growing on wood at the back of the bed. Turkey tail fungus has been on the front leg for a long time. I checked under a log and found a couple of slugs, so my logs are indeed encouraging food for wildlife.

I carried on along to the triangle and weeded half of that. Next year I need to prop the everlasting pea  up better and make some space for other things further forward in the bed to do better. There are little animal holes all over the place. I imagine that they’re about 50/50 mole and vole.