Our gardens in November

[Lisa]

My anemones are looking lovely and my violas

But something has been digging in my pots. Thrown slate everywhere and made a right mess

[K@]

Foxes having a forage?

[Tâf]

Magpies?

[Nana of 9]

Rats?

[dogsmum]

Rats?

Plenty of them around here, living near the Canal 

[K@]

First hard frost, this morning.

[Lisa]

Could be rats, but I think a bird might be more likely

[Dundee]

November is near again.

[Nana of 9]

We have't had an air frost here yet, so we still have leaves on the fig tree, roses on the climbing rose, penstemons in flower... and the primulas are in full bloom! It was 17c a couple of days ago!!
We live in a small close where the gardens are protected by woods at the rear and fog in the river valley on old mornings (we're 30 yards from the riverbank... luckily about 15ft higher and it's tidal here so it never floods us out), so our microclimate lets us grow Mediterranean plants - Figs, peaches, palm trees, aloes, etc. This road looks like unless there's a frost on the ground. And we've been here nearly 5 years and never had snow!

[Dundee]

Now it is December.

[Nana of 9]

Well spotted