Orange flowers

Not altogether by chance, we have followed the Ottawan custom of orange flowers on the doorstep in the autumn (see reference 1). Slightly varied in our case as our front door is only used for ceremonial purposes, so the small stretch of concrete outside the back door takes the place, for floral purposes, of the front door step.

There is also the consideration that most Ottawan houses have several substantial step ups to their front door, often wooden, possibly something to do with snow, whereas we have just the one, insubstantial step.

The chrysanthemums illustrated left have done well this year, particularly well as they are now into their second year, the achieving of which, I am told, requires significant input of TLC. Not mine, I ought to add.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/housing.html. The finding of this post was somewhat complicated by the quirky spelling of chrysanthemums therein - finding being one of the few contexts in which I would like my spelling to be less quirky.