A Few Fall Gardening Photos

Our 2017 gardening season is coming to a close. In another 2 1/2 weeks, I’ll start my Fall pruning, digging out my annuals and getting things ready for winter. I have to say, I’m really impressed with how all of my gardens turned out this past growing season.

Every year I work on putting in flowers that bloom during the spring, then flowers that bloom during the summer and for the past 2 years I’ve been working on my flowers & plants that bloom in the fall. My fall garden is finally coming along nicely.

In the front of our home we have 7 orange fall mums. When we put them in 2 years ago they looked horrible…like they were going to croak and not make it. However, I babied them for the past 2 years with good fertilizer and with Miracle-Gro and this year…those scraggly fall mums turned into huge MUM bushes!

Back in June we planted a lot of Begonias (annuals) to add color around most of our green garden plants. We had a few Begonias leftover, so hubby planted a few around those mum bushes. They look beautiful too, but those mums did over-crowd them a little bit. Next year, we won’t be planting any annuals around the mums, now that we know they’ll turn into bushes when in full bloom.

One of my husband’s favorites are these pointy & spiky flowers that he calls “fire crackers” and you can see a few of those above. We have them in red, orange and mustard yellow colors. They come back every year and get bigger & better. Matter of fact, this year we noticed that they had babies! So, I’m pretty happy that they’re reproducing and hopefully next year we’ll have even more.

As you can imagine, things are pretty colorful around here and I’m trying to enjoy it as long as I can. Once late Fall and Winter set’s in…well, everything will turn brown  out there and I’m not looking forward to that!