The trees in the orchards at Moseley Old Hall are of old species of apples. The fruit are ripening now, some ripeened, fallen from the tree and rotting on the ground.
By the orchard, a knot garden.
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Figs in a front garden
A front garden just down the road from the Compton Road allotments. A fig tree, its branches spreading as far as the front garden wall. On the tree, these fruit. They were ripening surprisingly well after this year’s summer weather.
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Pear rust, Moseley Old Hall
The annual Heritage Open Day, in the middle of last month, and the only property advertising free entry in Wolverhampton was Moseley Old hall, and that only on the Saturday. Wandering round the garden, I noticed a line of pear trees against one wall of the house. All the leaves seemed to be heavily infested with pear rust. There were multiple powdery-looking dull orange raised patches on the underside of each leaf, each corresponding with a brighter orange mark above.
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Ripening fruit (whitebeam berries)
Bunches of berries changing colour as they ripen on a whitebeam. All the pictures are of berries from one tree, seen on the same morning.
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Season of mists
Autumn is described in the poem as the season of mists. There haven’t been very many so far, but these are early morning views towards Tettenhall ridge from Compton Park as the sun rose on one of the few days we had mist.
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Purple loosestrife, a close view
Close view of one section of the flower spike of a purple loosestrife, seen about a month ago when the flowers were at their height.