When I agreed to join in the “End of the Month Views” with Helen / Patient Gardener,

I forgot about November.

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It’s December all-ready! – and here I am still vaguely waiting for the summer that never was

When I agreed to join in the “End of the Month Views” with Helen / Patient Gardener,

I forgot about November.

One reason why I am late this month is that the garden looks like it has been a play ground for swamp monsters.

It is horrid out there.

And I could hardly bring myself to take a photograph

But I did

Well you didn’t think I would put a full sized picture up did you?

Partly this is due to the tedious amount of rain and wind we have had.

And partly it is because of the state of the garden,

Currently I have quite a few hardy herbaceous perennials and grasses

So the structure that shrubs can give to a garden is lacking at the moment.

I do have some shrubs – but they are so small that you cannot see them.

However;-

One of the things that Shedman and I did do this month was make some “Garden Art”

Those of you that follow my blog regularly will be aware perhaps of the ongoing saga of the camellia.

I felt somehow that something of the shrub should remain in the garden – it had probably been here for so many years.

I kind of felt that I should acknowledge it in some way.

When we finally dug it up and replaced it with a pond, I did not get rid of the trunk.

All credit to Shedman, when I dragged the trunk of the camellia back into the garden and asked him to “plant” it again

He totally got what I was trying to do.

We had a rather lovely outdoor pot that lived by the studio which we both thought could look quite good placed between the branches of the camellia.

So Shedman shaped the branches so that the pot would sit safely in between them.

And, fingers crossed it has stayed there despite all the winds that have buffeted the garden this month.

So I am hopeful that this “sculpture” will add some interest to the winter garden

And in the summer, well I see a small clematis twirling its way up and around.

I think once the area around it has been planted up it will be OK.

On another note – I don’t often look at things like blog stats and search engines – but some one this week arrived at my blog looking for

“A garden of dead flowers”