Great shots, Shelly. I like the leaves on the ground.
Sharon - I don't even rake my own!
Garden Photos - Part 43
Beautiful photos, RC. And Sharon ... I love the look of the leaves on the ground like that. Looks kinda homey.
Pink Double Delight still going.
Looking up through the dawn redwood.
JM Mikawa yatsubusa.
Fothergilla Mt. Airy.
Last - Karl Foerster.
Love both the berries and the red leaves.
We're waiting til they all come down before we rake and chip em up.
Really nice looking grasses. They look like sentinels.
Too wet, RC....too wet to even rake.....so I will have a golden yard for a little while longer.
Love all the colors in your areas.
I have a poison ivy story to tell that is not pretty, think I will stick it in an article, though...
The only good thing is that now some 50 years later, I think I have an immunity....
Here are some ungood shots, but nice coloration and texture.
And one more...
note the dark area, leaves of sweet potato vine...
have a good day...
Sharran well, at least we are in the same soggy leaf boat :-p ohhhhh..... I love a good poison ivy/oak story. can't wait. Did you eat it? Sorry, couldn't resist asking! There's a fable that goes around these parts that if you eat it, and survive whatever comes to you because of it, that you won't get it anymore afterwards.
It's not true!
Victor, I can't believe that your echi's are still going. I'm not so jealous now, but i'm really going to be when things are opening up a few weeks earlier for you in the spring as well!! Are you sure that you're in zone 6? ^_^ I waited until every last stem was dead before i cut my echi's back, and that was 2 or 3 weeks ago. Love the mikawa.....
RC, nope, didn't eat it, but took a nap in it.
Paid dearly for that nap.
An ungood story, but funny now.
Lest you wonderful NE'ers wonder at my vocabulary, about this time of year I get a little tired of the mundaneity of the Americanized English words, so I tend to dress them up a bit to fit my mood of the moment. Of course, you could blame it on my KY mountains, but that wouldn't be true.
You could also post more pictures to brighten up this soggy leaf day for RC and me.
OK Sharon, You asked for it!!! I didn't know we are supposed to cut back Coneflowers right? BEV
I luv it Sharran. I make up a new word everyday and I frequently pencil in corrections in my Oxford Dictionary as I find alot of mistakes. Photosnarf is one of my recent favs that occured in conjunction with the Photo Contest. Ungood is a gooder.
Hey ! I got a better one. Sqint your eyes on this one.
Very retro 60s dragonfly62. Cool.
Sensory overload, Bev! Not sure my garden knows what zone it is, Shelly!
I wonder if it brightened Sharon's day???? HI dear! Hugs BEV
LOL It is going to be Spring all winter LOL
Oh my goodness gracious, Bev....gorgeous...yep, very very very butterfly-y bright. Thanks.
Love it, dahlianut!
Victor, do you know where you live?
ROTFL - " I frequently pencil in corrections in my Oxford dictionary..." I just belted out a good one when I read that.
I want to do the same thing with the newspaper. Not that I'm an expert, by any means. I often wonder if it ever gets proofread.
Me, too with the newspapers, Jan. Mine are usually corrected with red ink. Drove my husband nutz if he didn't get the morning paper first.
I used to have a file of all the mistakes I found in the NY Times and had the corrections appear the next day.
Did you tell them, Victor?
Yes! And I kept the corrections that were printed based on my contacting them. They made many mistakes.
Good for you.
They would never reply or say thank you. You just had to look the next day to see if they printed the correction.
I thought I'd share the funky twig color on my new arctic sun dogwood. It was a yellow-ish color before the cold came, and now it is this interesting color -- I have no idea what to call it!
And you can see I didn't put a thick enough newspaper layer down to kill all the grass :)
oh, and y'all are hilarious to read
I love the red-twig dogwoods.
this one is a yellow-twig actually
evie.... are you sure it's a yellow twig?
dragonfly... coneflowers generally need to be cut back. when they die back for the season, the stalks don't usually fall down on their own. typically you're left with a standing dead stick. I suppose if you have enough wind or snow it might knock them over. Although one year I got 4 or 5 inches of snow before I got around to cutting them back and the snow didn't phase them at all. It look interesting.... all this white snow with these sticks of spiked cones sticking out of it. However, in some climates, the basil leaves may stay evergreen. I'd use your judgement on the bottom leaves. Only once have mine stayed evergreen through the winter.
I love your words Sharran. Keep using them. I used to have a miniature dictionary from the late 1800's. It was a lot of fun to try to use those words!
Sorry if I can't keep up with everything. I do try. :)
I love your words and everything else about you Sharon.
A Fall photo or two starting with an oak leaf hydrangea.
Laurel
Creeping fig (Ficus pumila).
Burford holly berries. The cardinals are having a blast with these!
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Hi Laurel,
I love the oak leafed hydrangea...reminds me of my mother's that I wrote about earlier. Mine are still brown sticks at the moment. Please tell me they will look like yours by next year. I really am trying.
Been fun, all, I'll see what direction you are going tomorrow...
Oh, Victor, forget the rake or even the leaf blower. It is now a matted mass of miserable maple leaves. Dang it.
Ferns on the bridge in Atlanta.
Thanks Sharon. A DGer who is an awesome shrub propagator gave me another this past week. I have many here in Atlanta, but only one other at Maypop. The newbie is destined to be a country cousin. :)
Nice carpet of leaves there, Sharron! Love all the different words you use. Makes things fun.
Shelly, I loved the colors in your sunset (or were they sunrise?) pics, and the picture of the maple (?) in front of the hemlock is great. And they dewdrop (raindrop?) on the calicarpa berries is fantastic. Great colors in that one, too. I also love your shot of the JM leaves. Very nice!
I can't leave you out, Victor! That shot looking up through the Dawn Redwood is great, as is the light shining through the fothergilla leaves.
Nice bright ones, Bev. Love the retro 60's look one.
Those holly berries look wonderful, Laurel.
Karen
Nice fence pic with the ferns, Laurel.
Karen