What's happening in your early fall garden?

Thanks for the reminder, doss---gotta get my cushions in, too.

DH is taking down fans, lights and shade sails, and being watched VERY closely by the hummers. Although he says he's not getting scolded today, so I guess they've decided they've made clear to him the importance of leaving the cables up so they can perch on them.

My variegated Solomon's seal has gone completely gold, and the leaves are starting to turn yellow on my acer negundo. Sigh.....always just about the time the heat lets off and the leaves stop burning to a crisp, it's time for them to fall off!!

Randy, the unknown plant I gave you is a Clerodendrum ugandence.

My gardens are still a huge mess with all the new landscaping I'm doing. I've bought lots of new items and they are all still in pots waiting for me to redo the area they are going in. Today I want to get some of them in before the rains come.....if I can get my lazy bottom out there....lol

Ima, I also have an Acer negundo. Is yours a 'pink flamingo' varigated? My leaves have been falling for weeks already and wish they would finish. lol

Donna

Same boat as you all. Got to get ready for the coming rains (we hope). BTW, if you have them, don't forget to clean out your rain gutters, while you are bringing in the patio furniture. Or in my case putting up the poly carb on the patio lanai to keep the rain off my firewood. I am not crawling up there and screwing them back in though. Sounds like a job for a limber kid who knows how to use a battery operated screw driver.
I did get my iris's from weegy, am clearing the area where they will be planted. It will be a spring surprise (I do like pleasant surprises), to see what she sent me! : - )
Gave up on bulbs unless I can find some locally. Will order in spring for next year, sigh. At least I can enjoy the photos that chrisw posts. Sigh!
Keep dry and warm.
WIB,
SW

SW, I often get fantastic bargains on daffs (which I use to deter gophers) after the "official" planting season is over. I've found them at HD, Lowe's, OSH and also a couple of the rather pricey nurseries when they're clearing out in ths spring. I start looking around January, and have bought & planted as late as early May with no noticeable impact. The ones I plant that late may not bloom the first year (but they're still there in the ground annoying gophers), but the ones I planted last March were just a bit late to bloom and still gorgeous.

Donna, I don't know what cultivar this Acer negundo is. I bought it 20+ years ago when I was working at a nursery on weekends in exchange for plants. I didn't keep track so well then---I was just trying to glom onto every plant I liked, and find a place to stuff it on our barren, brand-new-tract lot. They don't get have a very good rep, but I do enjoy mine. I just go gaga over anything with variegated leaves....This (cropped) photo was taken in July---can you tell if it's the same as yours? I can so relate to all the work you have to do after having landscaping done. I was in the same boat last year at this time. And now every time I buy something new I wonder WHAT I was thinking, as I have filled up so many of the new beds!!!

Ima, The leaves look like the kind one of my bougainvillea has. I go gaga over variegated leaves too.
Thanks for the tips on the daffs/bulbs, I'll keep my eyeballs open for them. : - )
Still got to move those canna's out of the gh. Sigh. Very soon.
WIB,
SW

Love those variegated bougies, too---but my wee GH doesn't have room for anything with thorns, and they won't make it thru the winter here outside. And I hate to pay that much for something annual...LOL! So I visit my friend's---she lives in SJ and they do fine in her yard.

Ima, yes that is the same tree I have. It's been in the ground for about 7-8 yrs. now. I keep it trimmed up so it won't get too big for my small back garden. I just love when all the new leaves come out and they are tinged in pink.

BTW, I am doing the relandscaping this time, so alllllll the work is on little ole me. lol

I had the hardscaping done (broken concrete raised beds, gravel paths & dirt shoveled(. Made life SOOO much easier, as I'd been staring at this mess for the past 20 years "getting an idea" of what I wanted done. But if I hadn't spend so many years planning, I'd have had to tear more stuff out. At least now I really LIKE what I have, and I expect I'll continue to like it for a long time. Never done, though....still trying to figure out what to do with the edges on my 2 ponds, and 2 of my Asian pear trees look really unhealthy all of a sudden, so they may have to go.

RAIN!!!!!

First big rain here in the Sacramento Valley too. Gusts of wind up to 45 mph. My poor Fuyu persimmon tree - it is loaded with fruit right now. I have not gone outside to see how it is faring. But I did manage to retie a few tall dahlias that is still blooming or about to bloom.

Local radio personality talking about the 'storm watch' this morning - "we're up to 58 drops!"

We haven't gotten much wind, thank goodness, but we've had at least a couple of inches of rain and it's been pouring down steadily since 7:00 am. All the rain-gutters are flushed out, and I'm sure glad DH cleaned out all the underground drainage pipes a few weeks ago! My rain barrels are both completely full again, too.

Quit bragging....some of us are a little snarky about the amount of rain we're getting, or rather, NOT getting....

I sure wish I could share----most of this is now just puddling and running into the street because the top layer of ground is saturated and there's too much water falling too fast to soak into the soil.....sigh.....and we're all very concerned about slides in areas up here that had fires this summer, of course.

"Feast or famine", as Momma used to say.

We need a new thread for fall! This one is getting too long.
And here it is
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1047778/

Oops...accidentally posted....

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