Autumn......
Oct. 18th, 2018 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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gardeningFall is coming little by little to "The Dangly Bits". Mornings are often Cool, the Sunlight is HOT and those deciduous plants that Color up are beginning to do so. The Beauty Berries along the drive are in their early Glory, in a couple weeks the leaves will turn Yellow to bring their display up a notch.
The Annuals mostly are gone and the Perennials into Dormancy, though a few hang on and I wish they would...they look so ratty;>!
It won't be long till my gardens' wildlife shift to Winter mode. I probably have one more Feeding for the Hummingbirds and won't put out the Sunflower seeds or the suet until after Thanksgiving. The baby Box turtles(my front courtyard usually as a nest every yr)are mostly gone except for one female the size of a card deck. The toads as well. The tree frogs, skinks and Anoles are still abundant.
It looks like my Persimmon gets another yr to prove itself. The fig I ordered won't be bearing for at least another yr so it won't go into the chipper over the Winter....this yr. That's the difficulty of limited space, you have to be "cruel" at times....you don't have the space to keep everything!.
The cats love this time of yr because we can have the sliding glass doors open leaving the screens to keep them in. It can get amusing with a ft long Skink in my front courtyard that likes to Sun in front of the window and realizes that the cats can't get at him/her. It must be the species 'cause there's a smaller one(about 6") that does the same in the bedroom courtyard.
Cheers,
Pat
The Annuals mostly are gone and the Perennials into Dormancy, though a few hang on and I wish they would...they look so ratty;>!
It won't be long till my gardens' wildlife shift to Winter mode. I probably have one more Feeding for the Hummingbirds and won't put out the Sunflower seeds or the suet until after Thanksgiving. The baby Box turtles(my front courtyard usually as a nest every yr)are mostly gone except for one female the size of a card deck. The toads as well. The tree frogs, skinks and Anoles are still abundant.
It looks like my Persimmon gets another yr to prove itself. The fig I ordered won't be bearing for at least another yr so it won't go into the chipper over the Winter....this yr. That's the difficulty of limited space, you have to be "cruel" at times....you don't have the space to keep everything!.
The cats love this time of yr because we can have the sliding glass doors open leaving the screens to keep them in. It can get amusing with a ft long Skink in my front courtyard that likes to Sun in front of the window and realizes that the cats can't get at him/her. It must be the species 'cause there's a smaller one(about 6") that does the same in the bedroom courtyard.
Cheers,
Pat
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Date: 2018-10-18 03:38 pm (UTC)We don't have much room either, and the deer in our area LOVE to devour the 4 little rose bushes in our front area. Sigh.
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Date: 2018-10-20 03:14 pm (UTC)Cheers,
Pat Duffy