Northeast Gardening: Show us your Bloomers #2, 0 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
I took pictures of what was still blooming in the garden on Friday before the big blow. I still can't believe it is Nov and these kids are making me smile. I didn't even take pictures of them all as there are still other annuals blooming on the west side of the house which I forgot about. All quiet and beautiful today so I can go back to do laying the rocks in my stream after re stacking the wood pile which blew down yesterday. I also have to help DH with chain sawing the big swamp maple that blew over. Yippee. It had died last spring but we had vague hope that it might show signs of life in the fall but no luck so we had hired a tree guy to take it down in Oct. He has not come yet, so that will save us some bucks, but it will take a few hours of heavy work to get it all chopped up and stacked. It came down in the perfect spot by not taking out anything else including the deer fence it was right next to. We just spotted a big cedar that needs to be pulled back up and staked. It blew a good 60 to 70 at our house. And the other good thing is that there will be very little raking of leaves as most of them are now gone.

I will have new stream pictures soon. Yep, I am spoiled with this land 2 1/2 acres. My first garden was on a balcony and the second one was house plants as I had no ground or balcony, and then a few more years of container gardening as I rented and the owners didn't let me dig. I then married and my DH and I bought this land in 1981and began planting in 1983. He had a big vegetable garden before me, but no flowers. Kind of poetic. We both love to play in our dirt. I do admire anyone that tackles the less than perfect spot and makes it their own little bit of garden joy. Amethystsm, Kudos to you and wishing you a better plot someday for you and your monster cosmos. That is one determined plant. Patti

This message was edited Nov 4, 2007 8:51 AM