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![Arch blown down](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6015.jpg)
Apart from the collapse of the Compassion rose arch, the recent storms have treated us with respect.
![Clematis and Solanum on dead tree](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6017.jpg)
The clematis and solanum have remained attached to the dead tree.
![Crocosmia 1](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6020.jpg)
![Crocosmia 2](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6021.jpg)
Orange crocosmia still stands at the potting shed entrance to the Rose Garden,
![Crocosmias orange and yellow](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6026.jpg)
while yellow and orange thrive harmoniously in the Dragon Bed.
![Clematis Duchess of Albany](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6023.jpg)
Clematis Duchess of Albany drapes herself over the arbour in the Rose Garden
![Rose Penny Lane](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6028.jpg)
Where Penny Lane parades her maturity;
![For Your Eyes Only](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6075.jpg)
and others such as For Your Eyes Only
![Festive Jewel](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6077.jpg)
and Festive Jewel are reliving their youth.
![Fuchsia Delta's Sarah](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6025.jpg)
Fuchsia Delta’s Sarah spreads along the side of the triangular bed now beside the greenhouse.
![Japanese anemones and maple](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6024.jpg)
Light pink Japanese anemones reach the lower branches of the red maple;
![Japanese anemones pink](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6085.jpg)
darker pink ones are quite prolific,
![Japanese anemones](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6066.jpg)
while white ones enliven the
![West Bed](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6060.jpg)
West Bed with its New Zealand hebe, its leicesteria,
![Dahlia](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_2152.jpg)
and its dahlias.
![Fuchsia Mrs Popple](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6068.jpg)
Close by we have fuchsia Mrs Popple.
![Clematis and geranium](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6094.jpg)
One clematis climbing the gazebo blends well with geraniums in a hanging basket;
![Lobelias and begonia in hanging basket](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6069.jpg)
another basket contains deep blue lobelia and an orange begonia.
![Petunias and lobelia](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6070.jpg)
Purple petunias and more lobelias populate the Back Drive barrier tubs.
![Gaura](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6071.jpg)
The gaura in the Weeping Birch Bed is thriving.
![View across Kitchen Bed 2](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_21481.jpg)
The views across the Kitchen Bed;
![Garden view from beside Weeping birch](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6062.jpg)
from beside the weeping birch,
![Dragon Bed and Shady Path](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_2151.jpg)
and along the Shady Bed from the Dragon Bed corner remain colourful.
![Bee on geranium palmatum](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_2149-1.jpg)
Bees, like this one in a geranium palmatum continue working hard;
![Fly on gladiolus Priscilla](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_2153.jpg)
flies, such as this one crawling over Priscilla, are in abundance.
![Rudbeckia in Margery's Bed](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6014.jpg)
Yellow rudbeckia are at their best. Here are some in Margery’s Bed.
![Aaron fixing arch 1](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6061.jpg)
![Aaron fixing arch 2](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6063.jpg)
![Aaron fixing arch 3](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6064.jpg)
This morning was spent generally tidying up, one of Aaron’s tasks being to refurbish the fallen arch.
![Aaron replacing Compassion rose](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6088.jpg)
He then,
![Jackie and Aaron replacing Compassion rose 1](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6089.jpg)
![Jackie and Aaron replacing Compassion rose 2](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_6090.jpg)
assisted by Jackie,
![Arch repaired](http://derrickjknight.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_2164.jpg)
recovered the Compassion rose and tied it back in place.
This afternoon we visited Willows garden at Pilley. On the grounds that we couldn’t stand the competition, I will report on that tomorrow.
This evening we dined on fish pie, ratatouille, carrots and broccoli, with which we both drank Bergerac blanc sec 2016.