I can't believe it is almost November already! Winter is coming and there isn't anything I can do about it but make the best of it. For now, I'm enjoying what is left in my garden, and already thinking about what I'll grow next year! These last flowers of the season are so precious and the little seedlings are a delight as well, since they offer hope for the spring. Cheerful heartsease! The mountain bluet has even sent up new leaves and buds in the last couple of weeks! If we don't get any extreme cold, there will probably be a few November flowers! I love my herbs, and they have been providing some welcome color, texture, and fragrance this fall. Someday I'm going to find room for a larger, more formal herb garden. Most of the little plants in this picture are self-sown. There are lots of forget-me-nots and evening dame's rocket, and some valerian, columbine, and foxgloves. I'm wondering if I will regret letting all these seedlings grow, but I don't have the heart to pull them out! Maybe it will just be a delightful jumble next year...or maybe it will be a mess! I'll just have to wait and see! I do intend to thin out any self-seeded nicotiana next year...they looked harmless enough last spring, but before I knew it they had choked out all the pincushion flowers, and even hid my new 'Crocus' rose! So from now on they will only grow where I put them! But one can't have too many foxgloves, (at least that's what I think now)! Forget-me-nots are wonderful, too, until they go to seed! Close-ups of some of the biennials... I hope everyone is enjoying the Fall weather...I'm sure many of you have more left to look at in your gardens than we do way up north! :)
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Veronica
11/1/2017 09:03:48 am
Your site was suggested by your sister on KnittingParadise. Nice photos. But, it is driving me CRAZY, out of where in the Dickens are you? US? Thanks!
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Kathy
11/1/2017 11:19:03 am
Victoria, I went to the seed page and on one of the seeds she mentions Maine. Also came over here from KP
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Veleria Langbehn
11/1/2017 03:18:51 pm
I got completely lost in your beautiful blog. Your sister mentoned it in Knitting Paradise. Your flowers are supurb. I have gardened over 48 years in Florida and wish I could grow some of the flowers you grow. My granddmother used to grew them. Some of them I can grow but I cannot seem to get Hollyhocks or nasturshiums to grow here. Have tried several times. I am in north central Florida. I know people that grow them beautifully, but not me.
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I'm so glad you enjoyed looking through my blog, Valeria! It seems that every climate has its advantages and disadvantages (and every gardener has something that they just can't get to grow, I suppose...I know I do)! Here it is too cold to grow some of my favorite roses, and there are other things I wish I could grow but can't. So we just enjoy what we can grow where we are! Gardening is such a joy! :)
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