The blooms of Summer are beginning to wane and look a little puny.
Yet more zinnias
are popping up. This pretty thing used to be a seed from a zinnia head I nicked from
Stonewall Jackson's home garden in Lexington, Virginia last Fall.
Seed nicking from gardens has long been an obsession of mine. Does that make me a bad person?
Looks like I will be able to enjoy the zinnias for awhile indoors. Orange bouquets are brought in on Saturdays for my OSU Cowboys football games!
I don't have too many Fall blooming plants in my garden. But the few I do have I love. This is Sedum "Autumn Joy"
The Liriope start showing off their pale purple flowers about this time of year.
The coleus are feeling the cooler weather too and they are going into survival mode by wanting to flower and set seed.
They've actually been flowering for awhile now but I've been pinching them off the minute I see the flowers.
The flowers of the coleus are really pretty but once they start going to seed the plant itself starts to thin out and get really spindly looking; and not attractive at all. I've been pinching the flowers out to stretch out the life of the plants.
I can feel a full day of Fall garden clean-up coming on. Such is the change of seasons in the garden.
The house is not the only thing that gets a thorough cleaning each Spring. The garden is much more labor intensive when it comes to Spring cleaning.
It can be pretty nasty work but it's worth it when you also have these coming up. These little snowbells are one of my favorite bulbs.
These little Tete a Tete miniature daffodils are only about 1-1/2" across.
Here's the ugly in the garden right now. This huge Lambs Ear really took a hit with the frigid winter we had but it's greening up. It's in desperate need of cleaning out.
After pulling out alot of the brownish grey dead leaves you can see the pale yellow of the new growth. It will get nice and green now that the sunlight can get to it.
The pink sedum is coming back nicely. The only cleaning up required here was snipping off the lead stalks.
With the extra daylight I have now I can do a little each evening when I get home from work.
