My Yard Before the Frost

I’m feeling a bit sad, having to cover up as much as I can in the garden and the yard, digging up plants to try to winter over in the garage, digging up the last of the tomato plants to TRY to winter over in the greenhouse, so I took some pics to share with you in case we have an abrupt end of season. The frustrating thing is that the frost will come Friday night and Saturday night, and THEN the lows will be in the 40’s the rest of the week. :0(

Two colors of impatiens in the planter to the left side of the front porch. (Amber attacked and demolished the others on the right side)

 

Here you can see the impatiens as above, plus the volunteers below the porch from seeds from last year! (You can also see why I pressured washed the front porch, porch pad, and front sidewalk a couple of days ago)

 

Gerbera Daisies

 

This is the completely root-bound, overflowing iris planter I dug out recently, now replanted.  I have two buckets full of rhizomes to plant elsewhere in the yard, sometime after we have our frost.

 

This is the metal duck we made to perpetually fly over the iris planter.

 

Here you can see the whole planter, with the pole and the duck on top. You can also see my new greenhouse and my husband’s new ham radio tower recently erected.

 

Our hydrangea plants are just now reviving after the 90 degree + weather we’ve been having until about two weeks ago, and now they’ll probably be stopped dead in their tracks by the coming frost. I’ll try to bring in some more blooms before the weekend.

 

Also, some nice white.

 

Twice-blooming purple iris.

 

I thought I had pulled out all the zinnias, but more volunteers arrived. I haven’t had the heart to weed whack them.  The shovel bird is standing guard.

 

More, with a hint of phlox on the left.