Alabama Rose and Flower Garden from a Non-Green Thumb: trees

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Journal Notes...Breaks, Weddings & Freezes

I have had an enormously buy week for unusual reasons. Thanksgiving, license renewal, museum, freeze, burnout to name a few. But I have learned to love winter break....I will be ramping up for a new garden season. After three frost back to back, it has been in the 70's of course..with lots rain. The fall trees are now revealing their colors. I have been well..it's has been rejuvenating to think of other things. Last winter, I was much worse...which implies a strong spring fever.

The Bradford Pear trees are as colorful as the red maples.

Ornamental trees in the front field

The cosmos finally burned I will probably cut them own shortly.

Red Maple is a beauty

Another wildflower be that has burned.

Will probably mow but not remove them.

Gallardia seeds

Loquat

No fruit though.

Climbing Blaze rose is faring very well... I think it likes the cold.

Creek needs to be manicured.

Knockouts love the temps

Finally, I mentioned a wedding. I have a previous on the subject. Click HERE. It appears my rose may host not only a wedding reception but provide the flowers. This will be in the Fall....I am certain I'll mention it again. Lots to get going for next year...& next year will be the year of the Peacock... I'll be scarce a bit then I will be full force like normal......

Thursday, October 31, 2013

The Colors Of Halloween

I think fall is late. We have temps in the 80s and lows in the 60s. Some signs of fall are showing. When the days are short, I get very lethargic. I use full spectrum lighting on my desk & the greenhouse to offset it. But the flowers are showing no sign of stopping. This is my second Halloween gardening. But I have come to mark it as the end of the growing season (unofficially). I am not going to put a lot of verbage in this post but I wanted to mark it...one day my gardens will be called, The Gardens of October so I want to know what's blooming on Halloween.