Sep 30, 2026 · 35 min · 11 segments
Alan Gray and Thordis Fridriksson return with a look at the plants causing a sensation at East Ruston Old Vicarage this September, after a long and droughty summer. **PLANT LIST** Brugmansia ×…
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And Andrea, who comes and helps me on a Sunday on the plant stand, said something yesterday which I thought was very pertinent, and she didn't know what was causing this, and I just explained to her, um, she said, "Don't you find that the colors in the garden are absolutely glowing at this time of the year?" And I said, "Well, it's a simple thing, really.
You probably don't notice it, but it is the- the light." Because we have, at this time of the year, we don't have that harsh light of the summer, the sun overhead.
Um, it's coming from an angle, and it is softer, and it's more mellow, and it's a bit like us at the end of a long, hot summer.
The colors are glowing." And we get to this time of the year every year, and every year we say it, there is a freshness about autumn that- that, um, we forget, 'cause summer can be a bit tawdry as you get towards the end of it.
... um, dead leaves, especially this year, and lots of raking and stuff to get out of the way to make everything look pristine.
But then I was walking back to the office from our initial, um, chat on the telephone this morning, and I thought, "When I come back, I want to pick a little bunch of flowers." And so I did, and th- this is what I picked.
It is a Brugmansia, and it's called Shreddy, and because its petals are all contorted and shred-like and all the rest of it.
And Andrea, who comes and helps me on a Sunday on the plant stand, said something yesterday which I thought was very pertinent, and she didn't know what was causing this, and I just explained to her, um, she said, "Don't you find that the colors in the garden are absolutely glowing at this time of the year?" And I said, "Well, it's a simple thing, really.
You probably don't notice it, but it is the- the light." Because we have, at this time of the year, we don't have that harsh light of the summer, the sun overhead.
Um, it's coming from an angle, and it is softer, and it's more mellow, and it's a bit like us at the end of a long, hot summer.
The colors are glowing." And we get to this time of the year every year, and every year we say it, there is a freshness about autumn that- that, um, we forget, 'cause summer can be a bit tawdry as you get towards the end of it.
... um, dead leaves, especially this year, and lots of raking and stuff to get out of the way to make everything look pristine.
But then I was walking back to the office from our initial, um, chat on the telephone this morning, and I thought, "When I come back, I want to pick a little bunch of flowers." And so I did, and th- this is what I picked.
It is a Brugmansia, and it's called Shreddy, and because its petals are all contorted and shred-like and all the rest of it.
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