Bringing Autumn into the house

Lately, I've been watching the weather outside....admiring the Autumn colour, but cringing at the leaves flying off the trees, looking forward to the snow, but dreading the winter, observing the climbing temps back home, and wishing I was there for a decent summer.

So, there was nothing else for it really, but to bring some Autumn colour inside the house...

This arrangement was left over from a recent Seniors Lunch, which I helped with in the village. I had scavenged around the village gardens (I asked first), and the hedgerows, to pad out the roses and white daisies...so I just jammed it all in and I was very happy with the result....

There is a huge variety of pumpkin and orange toned roses available at this time of the year, and I wouldn't ordinarily combine orange and red, but it really seemed to work...

So, off I took with my trusty secateurs and found some interesting berries and leaves in the hedgerows to liven up some new roses...

These paler beauties, looked lovely with some red and black coloured berries...

and this pale apricot rose, I have arranged with white roses, black berries and Autumn leaves...

and as the leaves fall from the arrangement, they look great lying on the table...

On the hearth, I have crammed some sort of daisy, again in lovely orange tones, with some more white roses, and red berries into an old florists bucket..

These daisies almost didn't make it home with me as I put them back twice, they didn't look much in the shop... but I think they have come into their own with the red and white...

The other thing I'm loving at the moment is the variety of little pumpkins around...something we don't see in Oz...

Look at the little hint of orange in the creases here...the only trouble with sticking one under a glass cloche is that they tend to grow little white furry coats within a couple of days...

I actually have different varieties, scattered all over the house, for just a little punch of Autumn and Halloween..

But my favourite are these little white ones...

Oh, and I nearly forgot these orange berries I sort of nicked out of someones front garden...I tend to take of for a walk with my secateurs just in case I find something interesting....