Fall ....LOVE it...even the clean up

                                                                          

                                                                            With beautiful cool temperatures mother nature brings us a riot of color.

                                                                    People come from all around to

                                                                          see the spectacle that is New England’s foliage display.

                                                                           I don’t think there are many of us that don’t like Fall.

                                                                                          It’s the season of more comfortable weather, harvesting crops,

                                                                        county Fairs, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and lets not forget

                                                                           Leaf Clean Up

                                                                              One of my favorite garden chores.

                               

                                                                               We still have a few trees that hold on to their leaves    forever it seems, so we do it in stages.

                                                                              Cutting down the perennials that have yellowed or gone by is usually my job while George

                                                                           works the blower…..

                                                                  the blade cutter, and other “MAN  machines”.

                                                                                   That’s fine with me I do the picky work trimming all the herbaceous plants and shrubs.

                                                                            This time I really was ruthless and not only trimmed but yanked out plants

                                                                        that have gotten too large and just

                                                                                 outlived their usefulness. I’ve wanted to redo our garden for some time now or at least

                                                                       tame it and I did make progress this season

                                                                             but not as much I wanted to hence why I never shared it with you like I had hoped.

                                                                   We designed this garden 15 yrs. ago and while I had changed a few things

                                                                            like the 4 separate beds to 2,  most of it has been the same for sometime.  

                                                                                    There are some plants like our dwarf Japanese maple that I would never get rid of but

                                                                                           that may have to be moved.

                                                                                                I love it even when the leaves have curled a bit after a slight brush with frost.

                                                                                            We had skirted  frost that the rest of the state received.

                                                                                         We just had 28 degrees the other night.

                                                                                               It  had to happen eventually.

                                                                                                Watching the leaves blowing in the air and the sunlight coming through the trees

                                                                                         was such a sight that I ran into the house and grabbed my camera.

                                                                        Unfortunately I missed the right moment but made the best of it.

                                                                                               Yes there were more leaves to fly up in the air but it wasn’t the same.

                                                                                                I found a garden design recently I really like. I rarely look at

                                                                                   Better Homes and Garden magazine

                                                                                         but I was looking at one at a friends house and loved this

                                                                                     colonial garden surrounded with a white picket fence. It didn’t really seem like

                                                                           a possibility since it's not at all laid out like our

                                                                        garden until I looked at it more closely.

                                                               I did want a change after all.

                                                                 It may take us a few years to get it completed but it

                                                                 gives me a goal.

                                                                       

                         

                       

                                                                                                One of the changes will inevitable be to remove all this Liriope or Lily turf or Monkey Grass

                                                                          like they call it down south. I also have some that doesn’t spread like this one “Big Blue”.

                                                                                When I planted this it didn’t have a tag anymore. I figured it out later but

                                                                           throughout it’s life here I’ve loved it, then hated it, then loved it again.

                                                                      Loving it now but it will have to get moved anyways…..

                                                           It never flowered this year which was disappointing but that happened because

                                                         it got a buzz cut with the hedge trimmers during the summer.

                                                         But look how green and glossy it looks now. It’s a mass of flowing green wave of lusciousness

                                                              that sparkles on a beautiful Fall day .

                                                             If you want to see the garden design that we’re going to do….. with of course some modifications

                                               you can take a look

                                        HERE
                                        Hope you're all enjoying the season!

                                        A note about not being around as much.
                                     Still working of the shop. I'm one of those that
                                       gets very easily distracted so though not cold turkey
                                              as this post attests to...... I have dwindled my blogging time to only a few
                                           moments here and there.
                                          Miss you.