I planted two plants a couple of years ago and now the barrel is half full of them along with two volunteer columbine plants.
Looking off the deck this morning. Same area from across the yard. Looking down the driveway Gratuitous shot of woodyard.
I have probably 10 frosty days in October. This past week hard frost hit every morning starting on the 19th (Wednesday). On Thursday, I thought to take some pics of frosted Frida Kahlo blooms and buds. Despite its name, which I think sounds Hawaiian (but what do I know?), this rose is a zone 4 grower and it is not bothered by the frost at all. Not sure if the buds will open, but after the frost melted both flower and buds were doing fine. There was another hard frost yesterday morning. In the afternoon I checked and the flower still look good and smells great. Hopefully it makes it thru the winter (I usually have a horrible time overwintering roses - in pots or in the ground). If it does, I'll be putting it in a much larger growing place.
While cleaning out the perennial beds, I came across one last splash of summer color I suspect the large amounts of rain we got a few weeks ago, triggered the plant to flower. I decided to let it exist for a while longer
Despite all the heavy frost last week I still have a couple of phlox, New England asters and Japanese anemone blooming. I wait to clean out the beds until spring so they have the mulch to help protect them. I'm doing enough mowing of leaves during fall that I don't feel like adding that to the list.
Our local color is hanging on. Hydrangea still looking ok. And a few winterberies. There's usually more, but this past summer's drought probably had an impact.
Nice. I will have to look at mine and see if there are any signs of blooming. I think Mom has one that blooms this time of year.
As beautiful as the colors were a couple of weeks ago, I enjoy the burnt colors of this time of year too.
But they sure look pretty on the ground when they are freshly fallen. Reminded me that I took a couple of pictures of the roadside garden Saturday afternoon. The first are a couple of Ninebark leaves still hanging on and the second is of the Japanese maple leaves that all fell at once (seriously, they were on the tree either Thursday or Friday, and the tree was totally bare on Saturday).
