More autumn trees in my garden. May 2015.

Lots of sunny autumn mornings in May inspired a few sessions of backyard photography, featuring several of my deciduous trees, some tomatoes, and a robin.

Camellia and liquidambar.

Camellia flower and liquidambar leaf.

Early snowflakes, Italian arums, oak tree roots.

Globe artichoke. I don’t eat these; I grow them for their enormous purple, thistle flowers.

Linden, dawn redwood, liquidambar.

Rose – Sir John Betjeman. The cherry tomatoes are all self-sown.

Ginkgo – one of my favourite trees.

Another of my favourite trees, a Tupelo – Nyssa sylvatica – with poplars. Sometimes they are all in autumn leaf at the same time, which looks spectacular. This year, the poplars lost theirs very early in autumn.

Japanese maples 1.

Early blooming jonquils and late roses.

A Chinese liquidambar with Liquidambar styraciflua in the background.

Japanese maple 2.

Japanese maple leaves. One tree can have yellow, red, orange and green leaves on it at the same time.

There are actually only two Japanese maples…so far.

A yellow-breasted robin decides to join me.

Yellow robin.

The robin, which is indigenous to south-eastern Australia, regularly follows me around the garden in the hope that I might stir up some insects.

Close-up of ginkgo leaves. My husband, who is a bit of a menace in the garden when he has a chainsaw in his hands, nearly ring-barked this tree when he ‘accidentally’ cut off a lower branch recently. Naturally, I have initiated divorce proceedings.