I missed the Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Days in mid-September and mid-October so today I’m posting garden photos from all of September and October, i.e., Fall. We had light frosts from 30 Sept. onward and overnight on 15 October we had our first heavy (“killing”) frost here. (Now the ground is frozen.)
Let’s start with the back yard.
THE ‘WILD STRIP’ (farthest back of property):
aster, goldenrod, anise hyssop – 4 Sept.wild purple grapes – 4 Sept.tansy – 11 Sept.wild white aster – 11 Sept.concolour fir et al. – 8 Oct.back border and wild strip – 19 Oct.
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THE BACK BORDER
Mukdenia ‘Crimson Fans’ foliage – 4 Sept.PG hydrangea blossom – 7 Sept.honeybees in flight over Joe Pye weed – 7 Sept.fritillary butterfly on Joe Pye weed – 11 Sept.red Admiral butterfly on Joe Pye weed – 13 Sept.Autumn crocus blooming – 19 Sept.back border – 19 Sept.Autumn crocus – 19 Sept.painted lady butterfly in Joe Pye weed – 21 Sept.miscanthus ‘Gracilimus’ grass, PG hydrangea –PG hydrangea with veronicastrum foliage – 22 Sept.monarch and painted lady butterflies on Joe Pye weed – 24 Sept.miscanthus ‘Gracilimus’ grass – 26 Sept.monarch butterfly on Joe Pye weed – 26 Sept.pink echinacea resting on fence – 26 Sept.three monarch butterflies on Joe Pye weed – 27 Sept.part of back border – 11 Octweeping Norway spruce (and back border) – 19 Oct.backyard with view back border – 31 Oct.
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REST OF BACK YARD
zinnias – 11 Sept.double-decker red zinnia – 21 Sept.white clover – 26 Sept.monarch butterfly on red zinnia – 1 Oct.nasturtium – 1 Oct.dark purple aster – 6 Oct.zinnias and Joe Pye weed – 8 Octweeping larch – 8 Octlavender reblooming – 11 Octpenstemon and anemone foliage, with newly planted garlic patch – 19 Octdianthus rebloom – 20 Oct.apples on patio table – 20 Octred-legged grasshopper – 20 Octbackyard view of back border – 24 Oct.
pink clethra (summersweet) blooms – 4 Sept.lily of the valley berry – 4 Sept.veggie garden with vanilla marigolds and pink cosmos – 4 Sept.bear (side yard), 3 a.m. – 7 Sept.pink cosmos with green spots – 9 Sept.‘Sunset Serenade’ morning glory – 9 Sept.‘Sunset Serenade’ morning glory (close) – 9 Sept.‘Sunset Serenade’ morning glory (close) – 9 Sept.honeybee in buddleia – 9 Sept.red bee balm – 9 Sept.honeybee in green zinnia – 9 Sept.leaping fawn (side yard), 3:25 p.m. – 10 Sept.pink clethra blooms – 11 Sept.rock wall with clethra (summersweet) and one hazelnut – 19 Oct.green zinnia – 19 Sept.feverfew in lawn – 21 Sept.pink asters – 25 Sept.grape tomatoes on vine – 25 Sept.painted lady butterfly on Neon Intensia phlox – 25 Sept.painted lady butterfly on vanilla marigold – 26 Sept.patch of vanilla marigolds, and some cosmos – 26 Sept.two honeybees on pink aster – 27 Sept.bumblebee in orange calendula – 4 Oct.‘Clarkes Heavenly Blue’ morning glory – its only bloom all year! – 6 Oct.‘Sunset Serenade’ morning glory – 11 Oct.orange calendula after heavy frost – 18 Oct.yellow tulip poplar and euonymus – 18 OctHydrangea in rock wall – 19 Oct.
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VEGGIE HARVESTS:
small yellow squashes and green pepper – 10 Sept.cherry and grape tomatoes – 19 Sept.a few green beans, squash, tomatoes – 25 Sept.
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FRONT YARD:
cosmos – 1 Septhoneybee in flight at cosmos – 1 Sept.caryopteris ‘Longwood Blue,’ Autumn Joy sedum – 9 Sept.caryopteris ‘Longwood Blue,’ Autumn Joy sedum (close) – 9 Sept.white perennial mum – 11 Sept.‘Rozanne’ geranium and ‘Autumn Fire’ sedum – 11 Sept.two honeybees in ‘Autumn Fire’ sedum – 11 Sept.‘Rozanne’ geranium and ‘Autumn Fire’ sedum (close) – 11 Sept.honeybee in ‘Rozanne’ geranium – 11 Sept.bumblebee in ‘Hab Grey’ sedum – 11 Sept.tall phlox – 11 Sept.hickory tussock moth caterpillar in azalea leaves – 11 Sept.honeybee in caryopteris ‘Longwood Blue’ – 11 Sept.earwig in gazania – 11 Sept.gazania – 11 Sept.two orange gazanias – 11 Sept.purple ‘Bluebird’ aster – 19 Sept.gazania – 19 Sept.‘Autumn Joy’ sedum, caryopteris, and cosmos – 19 Sept.fritillary butterfly on ‘Autumn Fire’ sedum – 19 Sept.bee balm – 19 Sept.fritillary butterfly on ‘Autumn Fire’ sedum – 19 Sept.gazania – 21 Sept.monarch butterfly on ‘Bluebird’ asters – 25 Sept.three painted lady butterflies on ‘Bluebird’ asters – 26 Sept.five painted lady butterflies on ‘Bluebird’ asters – 26 Sept.honeybee in gazania – 4 Octfour purple gazania – 4 Oct.wet bumblebee in aster – 8 Octannual firecracker vermillionare still in bloom – 8 Octbluebird asters – 8 Octannual blue bachelor button after heavy frost – 18 Oct.spicebush (Lindera benzoin) – 25 Oct.yellow dwarf River King birch tree – 27 Oct.annual purple alyssum still blooming – 31 Oct.red echinacea reblooming – 31 Oct.
And a few bonus November shots:
cardinal in vegetable garden, through window- 2 Nov.robin in weeping ‘Jade’ crabapple (front yard) – 2 Nov.sunlight in backyard – 8 Nov.yellow Norway maple in sun (side yard) – 8 Nov.pink cosmos hanging after frost (front yard) – 9 Nov.yellow Norway maple (side yard) – 9 Nov.red sand cherry leaves in frost (fruit guild) – 9 Nov.
Hopefully I’ll remember to post for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day on 15 December.
“Summer has run out. I am alone again. I am caught by the refraction from some deep, dark, and tender mirror that deflects the personal toward the universal. Within these inflections lies the range of my sensitivity.” — Anne Truitt, from a journal entry featured in Daybook: The Journal of an Artist (Pantheon, 1982)
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