Just above the Five Rise Locks at Bingley is a well-kept area of allotment gardens, looking rather colourful despite it being a dull day. There were a lot of cheerful sunflowers, set off by touches of blue in containers and water butts.
A little further along, an orchard was brimming with apples and there was even a bucket by the gate where you could help yourself to windfalls, for free.
It may be a good autumn for fruit. There's an abundance of rosehips (a lovely subject for close-ups, so shiny and bonny) and the blackberries are ripening and ready for picking.
Sunflowers seem to be even more popular with allotmenteers than with other gardeners. Our blackberries are just about over down here, but still plenty of windfall apples.
ReplyDeleteHere the owners of apple trees who do not care to pick the fruit are asked to place a yellow ribbon around the tree to indicate that others may freely do so.
ReplyDeleteThose allotments look so lush!
ReplyDeleteThe orchard looks inviting.
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