Rose Apricot Drift Mums Daisy Ilex Blue Princess

Gardening for the year is over and as with most gardeners we wait and plan for next Spring and what it brings.

The beautiful Yorkshire Terrier Pagan dressed for Halloween stopping by the White Mums. This area looks so bare after being cut back other than a few Mums and Heuchera.

The lone bloom coming out on my Rose Apricot Drift. Since I am doing more flowering shrubs, I think I may add a few more Roses in also, if I can find some more that do not need sprayed. I am not going to do the whole spraying thing, but I also do not want to deal with horrible foliage.

I cut back the Daisies to new basal growth in mid September because I was going to be so busy and the new buds had burned up anyway. Well end of October and here is one that popped through. Weigela Dark Horse sets the background, but everything else is cut down in here, yet I have a new bud also on my Coreopsis Sunray.

Ilex Blue Princess. This poor Holly has been moved probably 6 times in a few years time and is back to I believe it's second location. It hasn't hurt it being moved, although I'm not seeing much growth, which I wouldn't expect to after all the moves. The birds like it though and already have eaten all but a few berries.

Hydrangea Limelight Vanilla Strawberry Spirea

Gardening is basically at an end for most of us. We did receive a tremendous amount of rain for a couple weeks there and I did manage to get some things transplanted and a few new shrubs planted. I am changing over to more and more shrubs and feel that is mainly what I will have at some point, other than my Hostas, Daylilies, Sedum, and Mums that I have to cut back, which is still too much. Getting to hard to deal with all of that in the fall. Will of course keep my perennials like Heuchera and Lavender that are evergreen here.

Hydrangea Limelight at the beginning of October. This is for those to see the amount of pink I am getting on my Limelight. I did notice this year on Limelight and Vanilla Strawberry that as it starts cooling off the blooms start turning pink. People in a colder zone may get more pink than I do. Limelight has added just a tad more pink since these photos.

Hydrangea Vanilla Strawberry keeps getting pinker. With only 3 blooms on my small one, I still have them in various stages of color so I can believe the photos I saw before purchasing were accurate and expect a lot more out of it as it matures. Vanilla Strawberry has pinked even more since these photos.

Spirea Magic Carpet. A yellow shrub that adds some red highlights in the fall.

Sedum Mr Goodbud blooms. The pink on this keeps deepening also as the weather gets cooler and cooler. I notice on this one that the pink is almost red compared to Autumn Joy and has a red tinge to it's stems. This is the second summer in my gardens and so far has stayed compact and erect as they claim, like Autumn Joy. We'll see what happens next year when I will consider it totally mature.

Times are incredibly busy for me and I don't have much time for blogging right now. Will try to catch up when things improve with my time.