I’ve been having a marvelous weekend so far and even better there is still tomorrow to enjoy! I am feeling too lazy to write much so I thought I’d share some photos I took in the garden yesterday.
The huge silver maple tree in my yard says Autumn is coming:
Good thing we like apples. We’ve already canned something like nine jars of apple butter. We’ll probably do a few more jars of that, but we are already planning on how to can apple pie filling. Won’t a fresh apple pie taste so good when it’s snowing out this winter?
The nursery tag on the Alpine Clematis that we planted this summer on our new trellis said it blooms in spring. Either the tag is wrong or the clematis is confused. Isn’t it a pretty dainty thing?
And this is what happens after the flower:
The bees love the blanket flowers we planted in one of the perennial gardens this year:
Rattlesnake master has turned out to be one of my favorite prairie plants yet. I think I will need to plant more of these:
This is little bluestem, my favorite prairie grass and a native to my area. It has a bluish tint to it though you can’t tell that much from the photo. The reddish brown on the ends are the seed panicles and the birds love them. The grass makes a lovely whispering sound in the wind. In about a month the entire clump of grass will turn a pale pinkish-red and eventually a pale straw color when it goes completely dormant for winter.
The dwarf aster has just started blooming like crazy:
And Dickens and Waldo keep an eye on things. They are strictly indoor cats but we have a big sliding door and lots of windows with perches and views outside. I can hardly believe they are two-years-old, it seems like just yesterday they were tiny little scraps of fur.
I LOVED the gorgeous photos; just beautiful. Dickens and Waldo (love the names) are adorable. We have Buddy who looks just like Dickens (black long hair with green eyes) and we had markie who looked just like Waldo, but she is no longer with us.
Thanks for sharing!
What a lovely garden. I wish I was more adept at taking care of plants and flowers. My two lone pots are looking pretty pathetic so they are sitting on my porch where no one from the street can see them. I’m just too lazy I think. Your cats look so serious. Do they miaow for you when you’re outside and they’re stuck indoors? One of mine does, the other couldn’t be bothered. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Wow, I think you must have homesteader in your genes! Great shot of the maple starting to think about changing colour. And the cats—priceless!
Wow, everything is so green. We didn’t have anything green in LA, even before the fires. The cats don’t look very pleased.
What lovely photos! Your garden is looking splendid – lush and plentiful and just touched by autumn. And those cats are a hoot. But I must also say that they have the kind of cuddly fur I am just longing to stroke.
I love the bee, and I know of another cat who poses just like that (although, at one of our doors, he has to get up on his haunches to see out).
What a lovely garden, and very nice photos as well! It must be so relaxing. I realized the value of a garden after moving into my present home, which is surrounded by apartments on all sides.
These are such beautiful photos! You have a lovely garden. And good luck with all those apples. We’ll be starting to make apple butter here too in just a week or so, and this year I’ll do some drying. I love dried apples and pears.
Still summer then. Aaaah wonderful. Here the fall has arrived. The rain and cool night temperatures have ended the tomatoes. The squash plants, while still ripening their various fruits, have started to seriously curtail the lushness of their leaves. The fragile brown seed pods of the poppies, the blown flowers of the catnip, and the sunflowers, head down with the weight of next year, I love this time of year, but there is an edge to all this oncoming death.
Great photos! I’m like Danielle and am too lazy to take care of plants well. Or perhaps I should say both of us simply choose to expend our energy in other ways! I admire those who can garden, and I enjoy seeing what they produce!
So pretty! All your hard work gardening is certainly paying off. And the kitties are adorable. Cats always look like they’re thinking something nefarious.
Diane, I am glad you like the photos. I hardly ever take pictures except of my garden and my cats. Sorry about Markie, but if Buddy is anything like Dickens, he keeps you on your toes!
Danielle, thanks! You only get to see the plants that look pretty, I didn’t take any pictures of the ones that don’t look so good. I am a lazy gardener too, that’s why I plant a lot of native perennials because they are hardly any work. The cats don’t meow at me when I am outdoors unless I am sitting on the deck right at the back door. Then they don’t like that much.
Sylvia, well my Dad’s family did originally arrive in MN in covered wagons and both my parents grew up on farms. Something must have rubbed off
Sister, green is what happens when it rains. I think you’ve seen rain in LA maybe once or twice
Litlove, thanks! Their fur is very soft but it is also the kind that sticks to everything!
Emily, I love it when I can catch bees on a flower in a photo so I am glad you like it! Cats and windows go together like, well, like bees and flowers
Hazra, oh thank you! Gardening is both stressful and relaxing but I enjoy it immensely.
Verbivore, thanks! I hope you have fun with your own apples. We might dry some this year too if there are any left after we are done making all of our jars of butter and pie filling.
Mary, yes, still summer for a few more weeks. We usually get our first hard frost the end of September or sometimes as late as early October. There is something very pretty about the end of a garden, isn’t there?
Dorothy, thanks! We quite vegetable gardening a few years back because it was too much work but we are making plans to dig a small bed for next year. We don’t have to worry about keeping a dog out of it anymore, now we just have rabbits to battle with.
Daphne, thank you. It is nice when the plants turn out looking pretty. It doesn’t always happen that way. And you are right, cats are always planning what they are going to get into next.
Such pretty garden pictures! And, there’s something vintage-y looking about the kitty picture. Very nice!
Really beautiful photos.