A Little More Fall Color

The other day I was taking the little girls out to the dog room when I noticed some of the beautiful color at the back of the garden. So I ran back inside to get my camera.

This is my Red Emperor Japanese maple. I swear, it has never turned this color in the fall before. I always thought it was kind of a dud. I was so happy to see this color on it. And the very next day, it was completely bare!

Again, this little maple has not done much as far as color change in the fall. Its color this year was just glowing.

My silly dogwood tree. It never blooms in the spring. But fortunately, it always turns beautiful colors in the fall.

And just turning and looking toward the front of the garden. The flowering cherry and apple tree are there in the background, and that is the Camperdown elm tree in front of them.

We have been having quite a bit of rain (YAY!!) It has stopped all of the fires that were burning in California, and has provided some cleaning for the dusty pine trees on my road 🙂

Fall in the Garden

We’ve finally gotten cool enough weather that some of the trees are starting to change color. Today I went outside and was surprised at how many of them had started to change.

Here is the last rose of the season. Its just huge and spectacular. I brought it inside so I could enjoy it for a bit.

And here is one of my miniature trees that has done really well.

And my oldest laceleaf Japanese maple.

Of course, some of the flowers enjoy the cooler temperatures, and so they are still blooming a bit.

These zinnias especially seem to like the cooler weather. I can hardly wait to see how my zinnia seeds do next year!

And just before sunset, the colors looked so pretty, I tried to get a couple of views of the garden.

I hope everyone has a happy and blessed Thanksgiving!

 

A Chicken and Garden Report

I am so happy. My plan is working. This year, I did not keep the lights on in the evening (so the chickens would keep laying eggs.) Of course, this means I only get 5-7 eggs a day from 22 chickens. BUT, I am happy because all of my chickens are starting to grow their feathers back. Here are some of them:

The white cochins:

Both of the Black Copper Marans are in full feather:

And they have finally started laying their dark brown eggs again:

The Dominique:

And one of the New Hampshire Reds:

Both of the Speckled Sussex are coming back into full feather. They were really bald in the last chicken update I did.

And the self-appointed queen of the yard. I don’t think she’s ever lost too many of her feathers. I’m not so sure she’s the queen. She might just be smart enough to stay away from the other chickens.

Did I tell you that my apple tree grew ONE apple! I watched it for a long time, sure that the deer or the bear or birds might get it. But one day, it looked ripe enough and I ate it! Yumm!

A while back, I bought a book on Monet’s garden. It was so interesting to read. And he just was determined to put flowers everywhere. So the next time Kevin came over, I kidded around and said I was going to add some planter beds here. He actually likes building these beds, so he did this for me. I’m very excited. I bought a bunch of spring bulbs from John Scheepers again, plus those specialty seeds that I bought, so I will be able to plant some of them here.

Of course, all of the dogs have to explore anything new in the garden.

Kevin came up with a great idea to add some beds to the front of the shade garden. We are going to save that project for next spring.