A close up of a pine tree branch.
I love the smell of real pine and crushed pine needles. Did you know you can make a tea out of pine needles? It has an interesting taste!
Autumn Milkweed
I don’t know why but I enjoy seeing how plants change once cool weather arrives. Cat tails and Milkweed puff out and their seeds blow through fields and meadows, flowers turn to seed heads and of course, the leaves on the trees change from green to red, orange, gold and yellow.
While we may regret the loss of summer, Autumn can be a beautiful time of year if we just take a moment to enjoy it.
The Elephants?
Here in Toronto, right by the Don Valley Parkway in Taylor Creek Park there are these huge natural water filtration devices. I’ve always thought that they look a little bit like elephants.
My husband was talking with one of our neighbors earlier today and someone they started talking about these filters. He calls them the “Teeth” and I guess they do look like big teeth too, don’t they?
Sweet Sweet William
I not only grow plants in several raised garden beds in my front and back yards, but I also have hanging baskets and planters filled with summer flowers such as Petunias, Stock, Impatiens and occasionally I’ll plant some lovely Dianthus or Sweet William among the annuals.
The photo above is a picture of lovely Sweet William flowers growing in a hanging basket. The Petunia’s had long since died off, but the Dianthus was still going strong.
I take my flower baskets down for winter and store them by the side of the house or on the patio, but because the baskets are small and shallow any perennials that are planted in them rarely make it through winter .. however, some like Sweet William will reseed and I should have Sweet William growing in that basket again come next summer.
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