Misty hammock webs on Euonymus…
I am interrupting my summer holiday picture blog posts to take note of the September weather here in South Wales. There is a nip in the air and yesterday autumn lived up to its reputation as the season of “mists and mellow fruitfulness”.
I couldn’t have told you until I looked it up, but that line is from a poem by John Keats. As for “One misty moisty morning”, that’s a folk song from Steeleye Span.
Wet webs on heather and Cotoneaster…
Yesterday morning we had the lightest of light mizzles (half way between mist and drizzle) and it made all the spider webs visible (or is that vizzible?)…
Wet webs on a conifer…
Wet webs on heather…
Misty webs on Cotoneaster…
As well as the sheet webs or hammock webs, there were orb webs…
And as the mizzle eased off the orb-web spiders returned to their drying nets…
Of course September and October are the best time of year for garden spider webs – also see my post called The Diadem Weavers of Goose Summer…
Wet snail on a hellebore…
Wet Begonia…
Lovely metallic Heuchera leaves…
And another Heuchera is still in flower…
But some plants are past their best. This will be the year I move the pink-flowered Japanese anemones to a different part of the garden, as they are currently in semi-shade and reach in the direction of the sun, making them flop over some steps and get in the way. We have no areas of full sun, so I will have to move them to full shade under the trees, where hopefully they will grow straight…
First step in moving the Japanese anemones – cut them back…
The anemones are much loved by our birds and bees, so I don’t want to lose them completely. See my pictures of them in bloom here.
So as I return to sorting my summer holiday pictures, I remember that autumn is always my favourite time of year!
Such beautiful photo’s Pat. I don’t like spiders really but their webs can look quite enchanting.
Thanks Rita. I’ve built an immunity to looking at garden spiders, but still can’t abide the big house spiders.
Happy autumn to you 🙂
Wow those spider webs are amazing!
Sarah x
Well, I did have a little help from my eight-legged friends…
Best wishes 🙂
The mizzle spiderwebs always remind me walking to school in late September. I’m sure it wasn’t always that way … great photographs Pat.
I don’t think I ever noticed the mizzle ones before, I always think of autumn spiderwebs as rainbow-coloured in the sunshine.
But it does feel like that “back to school” time of year, doesn’t it?
Best wishes – and thanks for the tweet 🙂
Superb pictures of spiders web. Its amazing how the spiders seem to build these webs over night.
Thanks Chris. I find the orb web weavers tend to be more visible and I love watching them “knitting”.
Best wishes 🙂