Gardening, anyone?

Welcome , Divine. You must visit Charleston in the spring. Omg walking through that historic city and peering into the gardens behind the wrought iron gates with everything in bloom... Totally the same soul-filling experience. I also let my flower beds and veggie garden go to weeds being down two summers out of four. I finally got the front and side yards in good order but I may never get to the back. Love digging in the dirt but not enough hours in the day!

Beautiful roses. I had a lot of tea roses and bush type from the previous owner but between the thorns and Japanese beetles invasions every year I started to hate them. I dug all of them up😁

I think I want to go live with Flavia. There's would be such goodness to eat!

Very windy here too in Chicago. Yellow locust leaves pelted my window at work all afternoon. It sounded like raiin but it was sunny.

Had a good walkabout the Botanical Gardens today before dd's soccer game. Will have to go back to see more of this exhibit -- Scarecrows in the Garden

Scottie

Scottie- what cute photos! I love anything fall decorations and especially fond of scarecrow things. What a fun afternoon you had!

Divine-I too have heard the winter will be different for the north and south. CA through the southwest and further on will be colder and wetter than usual with El Ninjo and up north and on east, warmer and drier. I know the winters back east have been really bad the past few years. You guys need a break, and we need the moisture here for our water supply. They are forecasting a lot of snow here in the mountains this winter. Maybe I will get to go snowshoeing for a change!

I need to spray my house plants that will be coming inside soon with bug spray before I start integrating the dining area. I have four really beautiful large red geraniums I want to bring indoors for the winter as they do okay and then go back out in the spring, but not sure I will have the space for everything. Must work on this tomorrow. Where is that greenhouse when you need it?

I find ferns are hardy for me in pots out of doors. So I don't bring mine in. They die down on their own and send up new shoots in the spring. When I see the new growth coming, I then clean up the old. I think the prior year's dead/dying growth may protect the fern. Might be unsightly, though, depending on where you have them placed.

I would call or stop in at a local garden center with a clipping of a frond for identification and ask what to do in your area. not sure how much frost you have in Atlanta. Good luck!

I have ferns that are perennials, planted in the ground and come back each year. But I don't think the ones sold in hanging baskets at garden centers are winter hardy and I would bring them in. One year I gave a hanging basket fern to my mother in law at the end of the season and she kept it inside for a number of years. You might want to experiment with them. I don't think I'd cut it back tho, if you're bringing it inside.

We had killing frost last night. I also brought three pots of annuals in the house overnight. I will try to keep them going until Halloween.

I did the geranium dry root thing a couple years but it took forever in the summer for them to come back to life and rebloom. But if you have the patience you might want to try it.

I think you can take cuttings of geraniums and grow them in a window over the winter. Plant outside when warm enough. I agree about asking a garden center about the fern. We have one hanging in the shower by the window. It's the kind florists put in bouquets. I think we brought it from Texas. Our native ferns are sword ferns and they overwinter just fine. They die back and come back in the spring.

My SIL got married in Dec. in southern California. Their apartment building had a jade hedge along the sidewalk and it was blooming. I had no idea they ever bloomed.

I do remember that show! It influenced me greatly, as I got interested in gardening fairly late in life, and she made things seem less imposing, as there was so much to learn and catch up on! Thanks for the nice memory! I would watch the series again if it was downloadable somewhere

nice Jazzy! Yes the bees need help!

Divine, Our next door neighbor's butterfly bush died completely. He left it up until just recently. It had birds in it all the time. I so enjoyed watching them.

Going to prune my rosemary bushes this weekend. They got HUGE this year with all the rain.

Jackie- wow, isn't that gorgeous! Those are those ornamental cabbages, right? I love the way those look, although never had them in my gardens here. Thank you for the bouquet!

This thread follows the change of seasons with lovely photos!!!!

Winter might be a challenge in the North Country. ;o))
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The tree hydrangea in full bloom.

In my house Halloween is no longer about carving a pumpkin - it's about nibbling roasted pumpkin seeds!

Snack Jack, Snack Face, Kakai and Beppo pumpkin seeds are hull-less, and very tender for roasting. Just like eating popcorn.

Our vegetable garden only produced 2 Beppo pumpkins which were done in by slugs.

See the slug on the larger pumpkin?

October 17th, the wild wood vine and wild cucumber vine clinging to the barn with snow blowing in the air.

OK, now I'm hungry for pumpkin seeds. We always roast ours.

Sssss-snow? I'm not ready!!!!!!!

Another photo of New England Autumn.