The schools have gone back this morning and The Teenager #1 is settled in Edinburgh for her first term at university, happy days are indeed here again! September is such a mellow month and the colours of the main border start to reflect the waining of the year with soft mauves and pale yellows taking over from the hotter colours of August. September also brings the annual yew hedge cut, which occupied us for the whole day on Monday. Everything went swimmingly apart from a couple of wasp colonies which had set up home in the depths of the yew, Nicky and I escaped with just one sting each whilst Giles got off Scot free, not bad considering he was doing the cutting. Our volunteer Susan came to help with her granddaughter Anna, and Shandy soon had just the right amount of attention befitting the most important member of the team!
"But now in September the garden has cooled, and with it my possessiveness. The sun warms my back instead of beating on my head.... The harvest has dwindled and I have grown apart from the intense midsummer relationship that brought it on."
Robert Finch
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