What does your garden look like ... Today?

[Sheal]

The gardens look sad at this time of year don't they, but there's next spring to look forward to, the time will soon go!

Could you not put a net over the pond temporarily JB to catch the leaves?

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I should've waited to share my garden, I just got done with a few changes. The vegetable garden extension is done. All of the bare dirt will be the vegetable area. I won't have much. A couple of tomato plants, a blueberry bush, native strawberries, peas, maybe pumpkins.

I also moved my firepit about 15' feet closer to the gardens, and I'm beginning to add another 6' x 6' extension to the native garden. Moving the fire pit was a huge addition to the garden. Now on cooler days when working in the garden I can just sit by the fire and enjoy it. This has become so much more than I ever imagined it to be!

Could you not put a net over the pond temporarily JB to catch the leaves?

Yes, I've considered adding net in Autumn. The biggest concern is having frogs get tangled in it, I may have a solution that I might try next year.

 

[Sheal]

The soil on the native garden bed looks wonderful, is it easy to work with?

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Just when I thought I was mostly done seed collecting, I noticed my neighbor threw a bunch of Purple Coneflower and Brown-eyed Susan seedheads in our shared burning pit, so I collected a bunch of them! Gotta love free plants!

The soil on the native garden bed looks wonderful, is it easy to work with?

Very easy to work with. We have fantastic dirt here in the midwest.

 

[ChanellG]

Yes, I've considered adding net in Autumn. The biggest concern is having frogs get tangled in it, I may have a solution that I might try next year.

A friend of mine has a structure a bit like a small pergola around/above her pond and the "roof" of it has mesh screening to keep out leaves. It's absolutely brilliant because she is surrounded by trees!

 

[ChanellG]

Been windy here the past three days so plants have took a beating, but not too bad.

Here's the native garden. The Gaillardia and Rudbeckia continues to bloom. Most everything else is done for the season. Now I begin to impatiently wait to see how it looks next summer!

It was so miserably windy and gray here today it felt more like December than October! I can't imagine having to wait until next year to see things blooming again! We have petunias, snap dragons, and mums in at work now for fall planting and people are still asking for spring stuff!

 

[Owdboggy]

Took these yesterday. Autumn leaf colour just beginning.
http://s703.photobucket.com/user/Owdboggy/slideshow/Ocotber 2015 garden

 

[Becky]

Beautiful photos @Owdboggy You have a lovely garden - it's huge! Must take a lot of work to keep everything looking so good

 

[JBtheExplorer]

We've had a short stretch of cold, windy, cloudy days. Today's sunny and warm so I spent some time photographing the garden today.

Black-eyed Susans with Whorled Milkweed on the bottom left.

Spider with a meal.

Orange Milkweed Seed Pods.

A little bit of Autumn color.

My one blooming Brown-eyed Susan plant is nearing the end.

Some sort of Aster that I found growing in my fire pit and moved to the garden.

New Black-eyed Susans continue to open.

and lastly, a little scenic shot of part of the garden. As you can see, the majority of flowers are Black-eyed Susans now.

 

[Becky]

I love the spider photo!

 

[JBtheExplorer]

We're expecting the first freeze of the year tonight.
I went out to get a few shots knowing that the garden season is nearing the end.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

My Mexican Sunflowers died overnight. Thought I'd share a look back at their season.

 

[Becky]

They are stunning! The local wildlife seem to enjoy them too

 

[Sheal]

Wonderful pictures JB!

 

[Owdboggy]

The colour is good now.

http://s703.photobucket.com/user/Owdboggy/slideshow/Autumn 2015