Autumn’s here…

 It was a busy, albeit wet summer at the Garden Room. We’ve finally finished our first and long awaited vegetable bed and have even planted some potatoes which should be edible before Christmas. We’re embarrassingly lacking in green fingers at the Garden Room but will endeavour not to kill off our first crop before it’s ready to harvest. The lavender bed is still looking strong and healthy having been left to it’s own devices for another summer, and has been host to lots of pollinating insects and an abundance of butterflies. We seem to have had hoards of jays visiting this year who have feasted on the apple tree leaving only two at last count, I’ll forgive them this for being such beautiful creatures! We had a very special visit this week from a deer who has found something rather tasty in the hedge, the children managed to get fairly close before it got spooked and sprung off, back into Scadson Woods.

So, as oftentimes at the start of a new season, there’s the unmistakable air of shift and a change in energy, it seems all seasons start with a new charge and expectation. As the children return to school and the sun sinks lower in the sky, we find ourselves getting ready for a new phase, packing away the summer, and shedding the now unnecessary accoutrements of the waning season, in keeping with the leaves falling from the trees.  In the treatment room the summery aromas of lemongrass, orange, and bergamot, are giving way to warming eucalyptus, black pepper and frankincense as we prepare our selves to fend off seasonal bugs and keep ourselves comforted and cocooned whilst the temperature starts to drop. Fleeting thoughts of Christmas preparations are pushing forward from the periphery of our consciousness but we’re not quite ready for that, let’s save it for another post and just bathe a little longer in the embers of Autumn light before the nights start to grow long…

 

 

 

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