I am feeling very pleased with myself and very tired.  Having spent a short holiday with family in Spain I have come back rearing to go and put the garden "to bed" for the winter.  First off that means clearing out, cleaning everything and then re-assembling the whole greenhouse.  It is not my favourite job by a long way but now it is done I am feeling pleased.  I always find a ruthless streak at this time of year and some plants that I might have been nursing through the past few months are suddenly beyond the pale and are thrown onto the compost to make way for more encouraging prospects.  I have been teasing Phlomis seedlings out of the gravel in the past few weeks and have potted them up and they are doing very well.  I have collect seeds from this plant to try sowing them in the conventional way next spring.  I must say that the gravel garden is the most enormous source of plants that have self set themselves, I sometimes wonder why I bother with the more conventional methods.