November tends to be a soggy and dull month, but I've had a prowl around with a camera to catch what I can.
The photos are posted in the order they were taken, doing a circumperambulation of our holding.
A very wet looking little Jonagold apple, still with green leaves. This tree is actually of some age, but hated being moved to this position, and more-or-less stood still for five years, before starting to grow properly again and look fairly healthy. It's poor shape is a result of it feeling poorly, and it'll take another year or two to get it looking like a proper apple. It should end up a full sized tree: M111 rootstock
Then across the piggeries field, where nothing photogenic is happening, and into the wood, which just looks autumnal, but some of the field maple leaves are quite pretty on the ground.
Then out into the new field, which has a mound, which has a small monster on it..
In the other direction a cotoneaster is berrying well. I don't know whether it's good or bad, but the birds don't eat the berries unless they're really desperate.
I don't associate hazels with colouring well, but this one's doing nicely.
Not a bad year for sloes
There's a Quercus Frainetto in the corner of the hedge, which isn't much of a tree yet, but the leaves are distinctive.
Then back into the wood via the sleeper bridge...
...and back out behind the barn and into the boathouse field, where the Ginkgo is colouring better than usual.
Further along is a Liquidambar Styraciflua, which is supposed to colour well, but ours only does in small patches most years, like this one.
Nothing much caught my eye in the next two fields, but these larch needles are maybe worth a photo.
Our ram lambs are normally a friendly and cheerful bunch, but they look a bit dejected today.
It's the first time I remember this Wild Service tree colouring.
but the "shed oak" opposite is still almost fully green and in full leaf.
as is the Cercis Siliquastrum (normally grown for its strange flowers) just along a bit.
Whereas this copper beech has lost most of its leaves, but those remaining are nicely coloured.
Coming back to the house, the Liriodendron Tulipfera is a fine colour this year, but almost impossible to get an unobstructed photograph of.
The taxodium distichum behind it is almost equally difficult to get a good clear shot of, but it's a good tree, reliably going this gingery red at this time of year, and then a bright lime green in May with its new foliage. They WILL grow in swampy conditions, including shallow water in winter, but they deserve to be grown more widely, and they're quite happy in any normal soil.
Nearly home again, but can't avoid another shot of this thing.
However, just by the back door is the best splash of colour we have at the moment, from these cyclamen