
A big shout to our good friend across the pond Justin Patrick Moore for sending us pictures of his indoor plants that are now being transferred back into the house after a summer outside in the garden. That’s a great load of plants there.

As we’ve mentioned before, we’re not the best at keeping houseplants here but are getting better with the watering/non-watering days. Great pictures Justin!
Also here’s a great video with Justin giving an interesting talk about his excellent book The Radio Phonics Laboratory, more about that here. If you love radio and electronic music do give it a watch and get the book as it’s a great read.




God only knows what awful damage Hurricane Milton is doing in Miami and surrounds at the moment but “Hurricane force winds” (over 14,000 mph) expected in Forest Hill today?Blimmin’ eck!

Earlier this week just down by the decking we noticed this lovely purple/pink flower and looked up on identify.plantnet.org that it could very much be a cyclamen. God knows how they ended up there as we never planted any tubers or seeds but we’ve just seen that it’s a possibilty that mice or grey squirrels may have transported them there. They look brilliant though and we wouldn’t mind a few more of them. More on the perennial 
We’ve just received some pictures from Debby H now we’re into the autumn season. She took a photo of the red robin bush (above) in the south of France just before she left to come back to London. “I took a photo of the red robin bush in the garden there. It has grown new red leaves which I have never seen before at this time of year. It usually happens in spring and sometimes in autumn. It just goes to show that this September has been much cooler and wetter than usual in that part of the world.” She’s got a point.
Back in north London things are still looking great, with the 

Excellent stuff Debby. Hope the garden continues to look great even in the next few weeks as we approach the end of the year. Cheers again Debby!