We're home from our getaway and I'll tell you more about that tomorrow, but Fall is now officially here. That means our flowers are rapidly fading, things are starting to look kind of dry and brown. However, a few things are getting a little Fall color. Before it's all gone, I thought I'd show you what the yard is looking like right now.
On the side of the garage, these hosta are getting a little bedraggled and yellow.
This is our hydrangea tree and it's loaded with big flowers this year. The leaves are starting to change.
This is one of the blooms. They turn from kind of a lime green to a antique rose color, and will often hang on through the winter.
Here's part of our back yard. You can see there's still a little color back there!
The purple you saw in the yard shot is this plant. It's call Fall crocus. It comes up with green shoots in the Spring and then dies back. We see nothing all Summer, then all of a sudden these purple flowers pop up and give a splash of color for the Fall.
Our roses started blooming again! They took a short break, but look at those flowers.
The purple phlox are nearly gone.
The flowers may be going away, but the acorns are increasing! This is a picture Bob took on the drive to his woodshop. Look at all those acorns! They are falling from our oak trees like crazy. Sometimes we think the squirrels are throwing them at our house, because they hit so hard. It looks like the acorn harvest will be plentiful and the squirrels will be happy. And on that note - Welcome Fall!
3 comments:
Some of your beautiful plants, I haven’t heard of or they don’t grow here. Like the Hydrangeas tree. How pretty that is. Love the wildflower garden! Your yard still looks nice to me - very green. Funny about the acorns and squirrels. 🐿️
What a beautiful yard! Your flowers are just lovely.
Looks like some of them are still holding on well. Love that hydrangea bush! I had to laugh because our oak is letting off acorns like crazy and I actually DID have a little squirrel in the tree above our patio throwing them down on me the other day. Haha!
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