The dry and very warm weather is continuing. We have had a rain forecast for today but it was “just an empty” passing by. The poplar leaves are beginning to change.
I have been preparing the vegetable garden for fall planting. Plans are for radish, lettuces and some spinach.
As the daylight hours decline, the blooms are definitely decreasing.
I will be visiting the Six on Saturday group tomorrow. The drill is take 6 current photos and post them along with some text if you desire. Check us out at https://gardenruminations.co.uk. We are hosted by Jim Stephens.
The Sedum has begun to take on its fall color. The purple beauty berry has its signature fall berry display. The variegated liriope is also showing off its fall colors.
The Stoke’s Aster is in bloom again after a very productive summer. The obedient plant (Physostegia Virginia) is anything but obedient. It is self propagating but is displaying beautifully.
The last photo is a feral cat that is being fed by the next door neighbor. He likes to hang out with me when I garden. He will not approach me but I have not held out food for him. I could also call him “terminator” for his actions with a resident chipmunk.
Happy Gardening!
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I love the variegated liriope! And unfortunately the physostegia didn’t start here (from harvested seeds in a visited garden ): I’ll have to renew some seedlings next spring. Nice cat! Yours takes care of the chipmunks 😅, mine of the rabbits and birds😂
Junior earns his keep although I would like him to do a little less digging in the perennial garden.
Now if only my Callicarpa could have produced such an abundance of berries as yours. It looks stunning.
I always admire the colour of the beautyberries. I am waiting patiently for my aster to bloom. We have had a week of rain and the garden is quite soaked this morning, with more rain forecast later.
The beauty berry is beautiful with berries and leaves that are pleasing. We could use some rain here.
It is so dry here at Highland Lake that even the obedient plants are failing. No blooms yet. And the poplar trees have dropped their leaves. Beauty berries are tiny, but at least they are there. Your purples are doing well.
We have also had little rain. I have been irrigating. As you know, this can still be insufficient. The water and sewer charges for August let me know how expensive that can be.
Yes, I do! Unfortunately, I have no irrigation system at the lake. Plants close to the house live. Plants requiring watering by hand are on their own.
Lovely! I like the stokes aster a lot. Not on my radar as I usually narrow my search to plants native to Wisconsin – Of course I am happy to plants anything I really like, but I like so much that it reins me in a bit to narrow my possibilities! I also like the beautyberry. Do you ever make jelly with the berries? I have read that you can and wonder what it is like. Junior is adorable. Mine are mostly sleeping on my bed these days saying wake us up when it is spring! There will still be pleasant days for the elder to enjoy. The younger prefers the outdoors as seen through a window
The Stokesia is native here. I have not eaten beauty berry jelly. The berries are not very palatable but the jelly can be tasty. There are many birds that eat the berries including our resident cardinals and thrashers.
lovely pictures and I love the kitty picture 🙂
Signs of autumn here too. It is interesting to hear that you notice the same changes as we do. The Obedient plant is really pretty and I am considering trying to grow one next year as they are supposedly robust. Maybe not bad to have a kitty around, keeping small rodents at bay! (Poor chipmunk though!)
The obedient plant is very pretty. It is a hardy perennial. The fall is very pretty here since we don’t expect frost until early November. It does stay dry until then.