From my contributions to the village magazine:

In My Garden, October 2011

Hedgerows are magical this month; bracken and grasses ripe with seeds turn to wonderful golds and russets competing with the leaves as they begin changing. Far less subtle are all the different fruits now ripened and sparkling as if the hedges themselves have been sprinkled with precious jewels; elder and blackberries shining like Whitby jet, haws and rosehips like garnets and rubies, sloes with their deepest midnight purple and grey bloom like mysterious black pearls, bryony berries like strings of fire opals whilst vivid pink and orange spindle berries are the rarest of exotic corals. It’s just Mother Nature showing off her bling.