My plants in October

Some pics from my garden and deck. Can you believe it was Oct 21? I did lots of new planting last month in the dark shaded corner of the garden, shown in the first picture. I hope to have some pretty mountain laurel flowers every spring and some nice big hostas popping up shortly after they bloom. The impatiens in front can be whatever I want each year, since they die in the fall. Next year I want to make a big carpet of them-I didn't plant these until August.

The reason I took these is simple. It will brighten my day when it's dark at 4:30 and the snow is coming down.

























































































































































































































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Anonymous said…
Stunning. PS: If you can find some winter hardy pansies, they'll be among the first flowers to greet you next spring. Just don't plant them where the sun beats down in the summer.
7:20 PM
HAR said…
The flowers are beautiful. Do you need to be born with a green thumb? I can not keep anything alive but New Guinea Impatients.

Go Red Sox.. hugh... who said that?
7:43 PM
alan said…
Here it's finally supposed to frost tomorrow night and Sunday night. My wife's plants have moved to the basement. My lawn is still green and needs mowed; the tulip tree is just beginning to turn. Tomorrow I'll be painting the eaves on my garage...

But there's no such thing as global warming!

:o)

alan
4:48 AM
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