My garden, November 2015.

Life stuff has got in the way of gardening this month, I haven't had the time or desire to do very much! 

I did make time to gather lots of leaves to make leaf mould with.  I have about 5 bags full, which will hopefully be ready by next autumn.  I have no shame, I've even been collecting fallen leaves from the cherry trees on my road.

So here is a photo of my garden, un-gardened this month!  There are still some flowers, I can see this orange one from my kitchen window and it makes me smile each time.

Luckily, things keep growing whether you ignore them or not!  My garlic and onions are growing well in my front garden raised bed.  I have clematis, spring onions and pansies growing in the pots by the door.  One clematis is growing much better than the other, despite them being bought at the same time!  Very mysterious!

I've thrown some big twigs into this corner of the front garden to make a mini log pile, which is sooo good for wildlife.

I collected some seeds from a corriander plant, I wanted to collect enough to use when I'm cooking but as there aren't many I'll replant these ones next year!

It's very autumnal out there!

Have you managed to get out into the garden this month?

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Making a Log Pile for your Garden.

It's really easy to make a log pile for your garden, to attract wildlife.  

We had some big logs from when we chopped down the overgrown lilac tree in our garden, and I asked Joe to saw them into smaller pieces for me.  That's all you need, some logs and maybe some smaller twigs and sticks.  

I left the logs on the garden path waiting for the mood to build a log pile to strike, and in that time plenty of woodlice made it their home, and some impressive fungus grew too!

I used instructions from the RSPB and Wild About Nature.

I laid about 4 logs on the ground, added a second layer of logs, then a layer of smaller twigs.  

Then piled some more logs on top.  It really wasn't very scientifical!

And that's it, all done!

Do you have a log pile?  What creatures live in yours?