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I couldn’t resist posting this one today. I love this photo!

It looks like they attached sod to the van in some way, doesn’t it?

Maybe it’s supposed to be some kind of green statement?






The garden is beginning to shut down

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It feels like it’s gotten so cold outside! I think that’s only partly true though. I’m sick again with fever and sore stomach so I’m just freezing, even inside my own home!

Looking outside at the garden that I don’t dare walk in when I’m feeling this cold indoors I can see that the leaves from the big maple tree have begun to fall over the lawn and garden, and some of my plants have started to die down.

Those that are shutting down for the winter include the balloon flowers and the Phlox. As I mentioned in earlier posts many of my flowers are still going strong, although I suspect they won’t be for much longer!

We still haven’t had any frost … or at least I don’t think we have, certainly we haven’t had any hard frosts, but I expect within the next week we’ll have our first. That might be the only thing that shuts down my roses! I swear they want to keep blooming and blooming. Silly plants!

Some of my visitors have mentioned in comments that their gardens have been hit by frost already. How is everyone else’s garden fairing this first week of November?

The sunflowers survived

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Remember all those sunflowers that I had to chop down to only three feet in early September because I got a citation from the city saying they were too tall?

Well, they lived after they were brutally chopped and they’ve continued to produce blooms.

I really thought the sunflowers would die after having half their height or more chopped off, but they survived. I suppose if they were the kind that only produced one flower they wouldn’t have made it, but the kind I grow has multiple flower heads and stems.

Are your sunflowers still blooming?

Update – the story about how and why we had to cut down our sunflowers is here and here.

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