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Inbetween the showers yesterday I popped along to Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens to see how the gardens had changed since my visit in August.
Despite the dry summer there is a bumper harvest of apples and pears. The trees were laden with fruit
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There were plenty of ripening medlar fruits too
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The abundance of fruit reminded me of the first verse of one of my favourite poems - John Keats' "To Autumn".
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells........"
There were signs of the fast approaching autumn everywhere with leaves starting to change colour and many types of berry ripening.
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There were plenty of plants still in flower and the hanging baskets and containers in the courtyard near the visitor centre were still looking beautiful.
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The family of moorhens (not visible in this photo - wrong lens) were still on the pond.
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And it was great to see two log piles in the Extra Gardens offering ideal habitat for small mammals and insects.
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There were plenty of bumble bees on the sunflowers but it was that cloudy and overcast with quite a breeze that I wasn't surprised that there were no butterflies on the wing.
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