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I picked up some new things to fill bare end-of-season spots that will be well-rooted by spring: yellow agastache, red flowering hesperaloe, and some orange flowering thing I’ve never heard of and now can’t remember. I bought two of those.
Then I grabbed small-growing, slender golden rod, Passion flower vine, and some little bluestem grasses from a native plant sale today.
OP, just wanted to say thanks for this thread! I've subscribed to it from the start but only today caught up on a bunch of posts I hadn't read (going back to April I think! ). I rep'd you but didn't write a comment (I usually do).
I love the helpful hints in this thread but especially the PICTURES! I do wish, though, that posters would always say where they were since that info often isn't listed under their join date/other info (top right of each post). Sometimes in other threads I'll see a gorgeous plant I'd love to buy ... then I realize from the location info that it wouldn't work where I live. (I'm in southwestern New Hampshire, gardening zone 5b.)
I need to do some weeding today! Looks like we'll have decent weather (high 60s/low 70s with some sunshine) for the next week. Gotta love New England falls!
Karen, so happy to hear you're going to enjoying this thread.
It has been a pleasure sharing the pictures and along others to enjoy them.
In the mid-Atlantic area temperatures here here still very warm so the perennials are blooming in the grass is still growing.
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OP, just wanted to say thanks for this thread! I've subscribed to it from the start but only today caught up on a bunch of posts I hadn't read (going back to April I think! ). I rep'd you but didn't write a comment (I usually do).
I love the helpful hints in this thread but especially the PICTURES! I do wish, though, that posters would always say where they were since that info often isn't listed under their join date/other info (top right of each post). Sometimes in other threads I'll see a gorgeous plant I'd love to buy ... then I realize from the location info that it wouldn't work where I live. (I'm in southwestern New Hampshire, gardening zone 5b.)
I need to do some weeding today! Looks like we'll have decent weather (high 60s/low 70s with some sunshine) for the next week. Gotta love New England falls!
Fall has set in…time to clean up the garden and prepare for the winter months. Most of the perennials blooming has slowed though the Helleborus Ballardiae are just getting ready.
I’ve refreshed my hanging basket with pansies. They should go through almost the whole winter. I planted a third camellia in the back yard, so it will bloom in January or so.
I avoided planting azaleas for a long time, since they are so ubiquitous, but the 6 Encores I planted in the front are in bloom, and I am really enjoying them now, when other things are pooping out.
I have not grown pansies for several seasons now, but was amazed with a little bit of fertilizer they would thrive from October through late April.
Love camellias. Had two at my previous residence and each year they would bloom like crazy.
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I’ve refreshed my hanging basket with pansies. They should go through almost the whole winter. I planted a third camellia in the back yard, so it will bloom in January or so.
I avoided planting azaleas for a long time, since they are so ubiquitous, but the 6 Encores I planted in the front are in bloom, and I am really enjoying them now, when other things are pooping out.
I want to add more heucheras this year, not so much for their tiny flowers (although they are lovely when blooming), but for their gorgeous foliage ...
I found 15 heuchera plants on clearance sale at Kroger last weekend and got them in the ground today.
I've also ordered seeds to plant the last strip of grass along the sidewalk by my house, and I'll start cold stratifying them in December. It's going to be a Piet Oudolf inspired, mostly-native garden.
Anise hyssop
Tall thimbleweed
Bush's poppy mallow (aka prairie wine cups)
Bottle gentian
Stiff gentian
Prairie alumroot (aka heuchera richardsonii)
Bradbury's monarda
Obedient plant
Western Indiana physic
Slender mountain mint
Orange coneflower
Wild petunia
Switch grass
Prairie dropseed
I'm also moving some New England aster and plains oval sedge out there from elsewhere in my yard, plus ordering two dwarf bottlebrush plants.
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Been thinking of lilac, tulips & daffodils. I have to look them up if I were to put any of them in fenced back yard area. One of the dogs takes a semi interest in mulch, maybe he's looking for a twig?
Still looks like the picture I posted at Thanksgiving.
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). I rep'd you but didn't write a comment (I usually do). 
