Try To Get A Natural Effect We have a few days off for Thanksgiving and have spent most of our time grinding up leaves for mulch, fixing the deer fence to make sure there is no breach and planting crocuses and tulips. Autumn is the time to put in spring crocus bulbs. We put a couple of hundred bulbs in a year ago and love … Continue reading Growing Crocuses
And Good For Pollinators Too Aside from the beautiful fall foliage colors there’s not much color elsewhere. Chrysanthemum seems to be abundant in autumn but I’m not a fan of it. I associate it with mourning. It’s commonly used in funerals and to arrange on a wreath. So, I don’t plant chrysanthemum in our garden. We still have plenty of choices for autumn blooming plants … Continue reading Late Season Flowers
Blooming When Nothing Else Does I’ve been looking for flowers that bloom in autumn when nothing else will bloom. I’m just trying to give our garden some color and the bees a late snack on any day that is warm enough for them to come out of their hives. Not that many plants bloom at this time of year even the Goldenrod have already faded. After some … Continue reading Autumn Flowers
Late Autumn Did we really have a summer? Briefly. Most of the leaves are gone now and the plants are ready to take a rest. But some plants in the garden are still pushing out their last show of the season. I envy some of them when I do garden chores in a sweatshirt in a bracing chilly wind and see them with their bare branches … Continue reading What’s Left
Petals and Wings 