Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Season Over

Above, last week, the Hummingbird Gate to the vegetable garden hinted at the blue morning glories within.

Our growing season is officially over now, with our first frost last Friday night. The morning glories, most of the dahlias and a few other tender plantings have finished for the year. My marigolds, Joe-Pye, one dahlia, and the geraniums are all hanging in there. The geraniums will make their annual trek up to the attic soon, and my Christmas cacti, spider plants and ferns are all safely inside again.

Pretty in Peach—This perfect dahlia was pointing towards the ground, so when I photographed it from below with a close focus, the leaves and sky above show up as impressionist shapes and colors

The Golden Pair—I forget the name of this annual, but they're still going strong in both cast-iron Victorian planters.

Slow to Unfurl—Dahlias tend to look a bit pie-eyed or lopsided as they slowly unfurl their glorious petals. The soft-focused morning glories formed a ring behind them. Orange and blue are great together!
 
A giant honeybee is in the shadows of this Butterfly bush flower, was so intent on fattening up for the long siesta coming up he couldn't pay me any attention at all. I swear we had hummingbirds smaller than this bee!

Another view of this perfect peach dahlia. I took hundreds of photos of my few dahlias this year so we'll have plenty of nice colors for the winter blog!

Pink Gardens recently received its final coats of paint. The color is a beautiful dark, almost ruddy, salmon. It reminds me of the women's fashion trend from the '80s for darker cheek rouge!

These twin bicolor zinnias were just about on their last "legs" last week when I photographed them one last time. They didn't make it past the frost, but my spider plants are now inside.

3 comments:

  1. LOVE-as always-the great pix! (and of course I love the "pearly" gate...one of my favorite pix you did from way back when-of course I always say each one is my fave, but I loved the play on words particularly on that one..)
    Onward to do some catching up...why am i so slow on keeping up with my blogs (like grandma used to keep up on her "stories"..:)
    Mare

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  2. Thanks for all the pics, Casey, but especially the first one of the peach dahlia from below. It is now my Win wallpaper and is gorgeous! Hope you don't mind! Can't believe it's already time to take the wintering plants in. Wow. Time is really flying!

    Katie

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  3. BOY CASEY, THAT HONEYBEE SCARES ME TO DEATH. I WAS ATTACKED WHEN I WAS ABOUT 6 AND NEVER FORGOT THE EXPERIENCE. ALL I DID WAS WALK BY THEIR NEST AND TAHEY TOOK AFTER ME. ALSO LOVE YOUREPOSTING THAT FENCE.I LOVE IT. IT'S FUNNY REMEMBER HOW THEY CRAVED A MOON ON THE OUTHOUSE DOORS? I LIKE YOUR BIRD MORE.

    CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THE ELECTION IS OVER. I BET I'VE HAD CLOSE TO 100 CALLS TELLING ME WHO TO VOTE FOR. I HATE IT AND I'M SICK OF EVERYONES OPINION. I JUST WANT TO SCREAM. WE ALREADY SENT IN OUR VOTE.

    HAVE YOU STOP PAINTING. I MISS YOUR ART.I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES I'VE LOOKED AT YOUR PAINTING. SURE HOPE YOU HAVEN'T STOPPED.

    TIME FOR SUPPER SO HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND. GRANNY LOU

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