August garden

On Tuesday I wrote a piece about Sunflowers entitled Summer's here. Today, I was out in the garden raking up fallen leaves from our huge horse chestnut tree, which is rapidly shedding it's leaves and preparing for autumn.....
	In the rest of the garden, the trees are not looking to bad.  There are a couple of large weeping willows which I really like.  We try and keep a path cut through this one, to a hidden little garden beyond .
	However, elsewhere in the garden, summer is still in full bloom. This linden tree sits right outside our bedroom door and provides beautiful shade on a day like yesterday when midday temperatures soared above 45c (113F).
	I inherited most of the garden when we bought the property about four years ago and I am only just learning what everything is.  I wrote an article on a "scary tree" although since I published that piece, several people have told me that they think it's a beautiful tree and I'm inclined to believe them. We have several large fir trees in the garden as well as numerous shrubs.
	The hibiscus flowers at the side of the area where we park our car and looks spectacular at this time of year.  I took all these photos today....
	The hedge, bordering the road comprises many different shrubs.
	Sadly, I haven't learnt what they all are yet so if anyone wants to tell me just leave a comment.
	These flowering shrubs were all photographed today.
	We have a piece of field which is just being left wild to encourage wildlife and wild flowers. I photographed these yesterday as well.