I love the look of Goldenrod, Solidago canadensis, soon to be joined by the Purple Asters.
There is a very special beauty at this time of year, don't you agree?
It would't be Fall without Goldenrod.
yes, dear girl , I do........my favorite time of year
Wow Jackie! what a beautiful collage! I suppose these are in your garden, right?
You need to share more of you pictures with us, they are lovely.
Josephine.
this set of pics are from Sept this year......My home is on acreage with natural grassland prairie and wildflower meadows, madmade ponds, oak, ash,hickory, and sumac woodland borders, and cultivated and mowed areas. It is constantly changing from month to month.
We work it ourselves havin recently moved permanently from Irving. We have owned and worked this land for 20 years and are now semi-retired here. Spring here is spectacular, but falls are fantastic........
I thought a connisoir (if i could spell it) such as yourself would enjoy the pictures....we have left a lot here to nature, just enhanced it a bit.
These gardens are like a granny with a new grandchild...more pics than you would want to see....constantly changing from spring thru winter.....I have so many pictures I think I am beginning to bore my DG friends........oooooo you should see the flame leaf sumac right now!...Can't capture the beauty on film, just doesn't do it justice.
Join me in prayer for rain
thanks,
jackie
Jackie, I certainly will pray for rain, we all need it really bad, this has been such an unusual year, with heat and drought.
I am afraid you are going to have to invite me to come and see your place sometime.
I really would love that, you are so lucky to have such a wonderful place.
Isin't Texas Beautiful? I love the Flameleaf sumac too, mine is not turning yet.
Josephine.
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We are blessed to live in this time and this place...visit anytime girl, a visitor that will let me show off my heart's work is always welcome.....the only time it is not pretty here is in the winter or a really difficult summer..I am north on Interstate 35, 2 miles east of the new Winstar Casino properies, they are developing wayyyyyyyyy too fast here....land was dirt (sand) cheap when we bought here in the early 80s.......unreasonable now.
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I get in on some of your threads now and again. I know I probably can't trade you anything you don't already have. So, maybe we can trade tall tales and pictures........
Have you visited FT Worth's Weston Garden's in the fall or spring?...used to be a favorite place to visit for the native plants......still there I guess? it has been a while..
well, I just came in for vinegar and meat tenderizer..little bee thought I was pretty and gave me a bigggggggg kiss......
I wish you a light rain, filtered sun, and a cool breeze,
Jackie
Jackie, first of all let me say that I love your sense of humor, anyone who can call a bee sting a kiss, is high up there on my list of optimistic people. You are soooo funny.
I surely would like to visit and see your heart's work, as you call it..
I think that maybe Spring would be a good time, since we can't make it anytime soon, and in a month or two it will be Winter.
By the way, this coming Spring there will be a Roundup at Texoma, and I am not sure, but that is probably not too far from you.
You could come to the Roundup and meet the group and on the way up or down we could stop to see your place.
I think that could work, what do you think?
As far as plants to trade, I am sure you have things I don't and viceversa, but it doesn't have to be a trade, I will be glad to give you some of my plants if you don't have them, sharing is a very special thing to do.
I haven't been to Weston Gardens for a while, but they are still there and I hope they will continue, since they have such a beautiful place.
That is a lovely picture of Sumac, I guess being a little farther north does make a difference with the seasons.
Josephine.
yes...that sounds great!!!.......me too on the givin and sharing..an important part of the love of gardening
the pictures of the sumac dont even begin to show the beauty..most of it was shadowed today and didnt photo well.......
I am enjoying the hyacinth bean in the gardens right now.
Hello Jackie, those Hyacinth bean vines look great.
I hope we make it to the Texoma RU, that would be really nice.
Here is a picture of the Fall Asters, with Goldenrod.
Josephine, are those tiny white aster-looking flowers also asters? I have an aster that was given to me at the Central TX RU in April. Poor thing is still in the container it was in when I received it, but I think I now know where to plant it. It doesn't have many branches, but they are full of flowers and very pretty!
Josephine and Jackie, I've enjoyed this thread, just "lurking". :-)
Jackie,
Your gardens are so lovely and I would also like to visit sometime. Maybe we can have a mini roundup at your place at a time of your choosing!
Terrie
Mary, those tiny white asters are the Heath Aster, Aster ericoides.
They are tiny, but if given a chance to do their thing the plant looks like it is covered with snow.
Terrie, that is a great idea, maybe we can make it happen.
Josephine.
Beautiful combination....In the meadows my goldenrod is about finished and the asters around the ponds aren't blooming yet...........
looks like I am going to have to have some of the heath aster..those are beautiful.....
Terri......welcome.......love to have you , anytime......my spring starts at least a month later than In the DFW area.....
maggie...glad you joined in.....
flame leaf sumac today
Beautiful ornamental grass, too! Which one is that?
Jackie, I will see about potting some Heath Aster for you later this Fall, and then have them for you in the Spring.
Mine just showed up on my slope, wasn't I lucky?
Josephine.
Frostweed ... I love the photo of your goldenrod with the asters. My asters have been in bloom for about 3 weeks now and the pasture north of me is filled with sunflowers and goldenrod. For the first time this year the goldern rod has come up in my garden as volunteers, something I welcome. Your frostweed we received from you earlier in the summer is now reblooming along the stalk. It grew 4 ft tall before blooming and I'm hoping it will reseed to form a large clump. It looks pretty silly standing there all alone.
Got up this morning to much cooler weather. The weatherman said low tonight of 39, I so wanted to enjoy fall for at least a month, looks like I'm out of luck.
Carolyn
I love the two asters growing together.
Thank you, native plants can be very beautiful, and it feels so lucky to have something lovely show up at your garden all by itself.
Nature is full of neat surprises, dont you think?
Josephine.
Yes ,Josephine.........thank you for considering me for the asters, they will blend in beautifully with what I have in the meadows. Do you think should try to save seed from my goldenrod? It is abundant here and has set seed already, but I don't know if anyone else would want it. Hard frost here last night nipped many of the annuals I was saving for seed.........morning glory, hyacinth beans, salvias,coleus, queens wreath, silver lace vine.... sure makes me appreciate my (generous) DG friends in warmer places......while I morn the loss, it is truely beautiful here this morning, looking across the wild grass meadow it is like a layer of light snow........cold and crisp with a beautiful sunlight .maybe I can get a photo before it burns off
this is what's left of my butterfly garden...not a single seed was set yet on my mexican bush sage.......Josephine, do you know if the roots will overwinter in the ground here? Winter lows here get maybe 10 degree colder than where you are..... and the canyon daisy had not even bloomed , was just making buds...root hardy, you think?....
First frost from the house looking across the meadow toward the guest house.You can't really see it as i do...but is still beautiful..enjoy the morning.........
a little cedar understory of the oaks just outside my kitchen window as the frost is burning off
Dear Jackie, I have never grown either one of those plants you asked about, but I do beleive that they are root hardy. Give them a good coat of mulch when the cold weather sets in, as I am sure you know, we will probably have some warm weather after this.
Our temperature was 36 last night. We resisted the temptation of turning on the heat, but it sure was cold this morning.
As for the Goldenrod, I don't know about saving the seed, you could save some just in case someone asks for it. I have found that many people are afraid of Goldenrod because they think it causes hay fever, when in fact the Goldenrod pollen is very sticky and doesn't blow in the wind. Unfortunately it happens to bloom at the same time as Ragweed, and since it is more showy ans easier to spot, people think it is the culprit.
Toose pictures are really nice.
Josephine.
You are right about the Goldenrod, and I have never been successful at convincing anyone any different. I will selfishly keep it and enjoy it to the fullest... thanks for the advice on the 2 . the meadow sage comes from Mexico and the canyon daisy grows in Arizona...the lace like foliage is wonderfully fragrant. I have been told it is beautiful in bloom, won't be able to prove it by me this year anyway.....
I only wish the camera could capture what my eyes and heart can see.......
Not me.(resisting)......I have lived tooo long to resist any furthur temptations.......
God Bless and good gardening
Jackie
Jackie, I know it's hard for us gardeners when we get an early frost, to balance between concern for lost plants and enjoying the beauty that the frost itself is. Enjoyed your pictures.
I'm with Josephine, I think if you mulch the roots well, both those plants should come back from the roots. I would not cut them back until spring though, to help protect the roots from freezing. My Copper Canyon daisy (which I'm told is a TX native - grows along the TX/Mexico border, and in the Copper Canyon) looks like it is just now starting to get buds. A little later than usual, but then our intense hot weather held on extra long. Then Rita blew the poor thing flat. I had to cut several branches that had snapped, the rest is lying down on the ground. I love the scent of the foliage, too. Mix of lemon and camphor, I have to brush my hands across it every time I pass by. :-)
I hope Rita didnt make too big a mess in your gardens. Insurance protects my worldly things, but Lord it would break my heart to loose my gardens...I think of the beautiful gardens I once saw in New orleans and I grieve ...
That's what everyone has been advising me....not to cut anything back till spring...this is a first year garden, we just built the house last year..........boy, that is gonna be hard as it looks so awful right now..and up by the house all winter, naked like, .......but i will make the sacrifice to have good plants again in the spring...
my canyon daisy was almost 6 ft tall...it didnt freeze just got frosted a bit, enough not to bloom..I bought it as a small plant this spring....I just fell in love with the fragrance , I don't care if it ever blooms.........The bush sage was 5X5 and blooming so beautifully.I had just cut some for an arrangement with artemisia and canna leaf the day before........I was really hoping for seed from that one...I will mulch everything well and hope for the best
thanks for the good advice,
jackie
Beautiful bouquet Jackie, good enough to be in a floral shop window, lovely combination of colors and textures.
Josephine.
Trunnels,
that grass in the foreground is a ribbon grass, in that same area is zebra grass, pampas, inland sea oats, big blue stem, bushy blue stem, a vitex tree, hibiscus, equisetum and yucca........with assorted seasonal perinneal blooms....lilies and 4 leaf clover in the pond, pickerel and water iris, canna tropicana, blue mist flower and common orange daylily around the banks........
Jackie,
I can only dream of a of it all. :-)