Archive for October 3rd, 2016

Oct 03 2016

The Inconstant Gardener

Published by under Country Life,Garden

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The Garden Says Hello
With the luxury of an extra (unpaid) day off, I decided to do a couple of things in the neglected garden.

Fortunately, it’s done pretty well without much attention other than watering, and probably not enough of that. The rust garden, for example, looks just fine:

rust
I snipped a couple of dead fans off the palms:

palm
I also cut back the hostas, so they will bloom again in the spring. I am still promising myself that I will put the special fertilizer on the camellias so they will bloom this winter.

In the meantime, the Egyptian lilies:

egyptian

and the geraniums are picking up their slack:

geramiums

The Japanese maples are still providing a splash of color:

maple

though I noticed the big green one is changing color and will soon be shedding its leaves. It’s hard to believe that winter is coming when it’s 90 degrees in your house, but when it get here, the 90 degrees will seem equally unreal.

A YEAR AGO: The times were a-changin’.

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