It may be November and there may have been a touch of frost but the autumn colors are persisting. The usual late autumn and fall rains have not yet arrived. In fact, you could describe a lot of leaf foliage as crispy.
I helped harvest some fall vegetables for a friend and I was out at the Corner Garden this morning. I was surprised by how many blooms that I saw.
Come visit with me as we explore what I saw. If you are interested, come join the group of gardeners from around the world who post on Saturday mornings under the meme #SixonSaturday. Our host is Jim Stephens and you can find the link here https://gardenruminations.co.uk/.
By the way, Junior is unavailable this morning as I took the photos. It seems his curiosity is leading him to seek for some of the other creatures that inhabit the yard.
Rudbeckia “Autumn Gold”
The sweet potato harvest was poor this year. The drought affected the growth and my friend was unable to water as much as usual. The voles were active and I am not showing the other half of the crop damaged by them. You did know that the sweet potato is a member of the morning glory family so this is really a blooming plant.
The Rudbeckia has not given up blooming. Rosette formation is progressing nicely so I suspect most of these perennials will persist into next year.
Callicarpa americana continues to display the purple berries. The birds do not seem to like them much. I am told that Northern cardinal and Towhees will eat them.
Paperbush Plant
I have misplaced the name of the Camellia cultivar. It is just beginning to bloom and is a delightful shape and color.
Here is the Hydrangea producing its fall and winter glory.
The paper bush is an architecturally unique shrub. The arching branches are so noticeable in the winter. It is now putting out its central flower buds which will open in January with their golden throats.
I hope you find that to be peaceful. The fall coolness is refreshing, isn’t it!
Happy Gardening!!
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I tried growing sweet potatoes this year. I don’t think my climate is the best for them, but it was a fun experiment.
The sweet potato does require a lot of sun and heat. This one “Beauregard” is planted with slips after the red potatoes are harvested in June.
You’ll see that sweet potatoes are also in my Six. I can’t say it’s a bad of a good year but for my area with 2 plants it isn’t that bad. Love the edgeworthia coming soon.
Thank you. The sweet potatoes did well considering they did survive some dry conditions and the marauding voles.
The edgeworthia is a shrub that I really like. It generates a lot of comments because of the unusual shape of its branching structure.
That Callicarpa is putting on a far more impressive display of berries than mine. I had a Blackcap eating the berries late last winter – presumably because they were the only berries left by then.
Yes,the coolness is nice in a way. I took in my rain barrels last week as well as remaining garden stakes – I ad used my “snow sticks” as garden stakes – not really very good ones, and now they are marking my baby arborvitae but I notice that they are now taller than the snow sticks. Maybe I don’t use them next year, but I worry about the guy who plows the apartment building’s driveway. He is not always very careful.
That still looks like a pretty good haul of sweet potatoes, enough for a few recipes at least. I’m curious to give them a try next year as well, given how our summers are warming up now. That is a pretty camellia and I think you’re the third person I’ve seen mentioning them, which is really getting me curious about finding some of these very hardy ones that I’m hearing about.