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Good Fall Is Here! Garden Bloggers Bloom Day September 2017

by Kathy Purdy September 15, 2017 – Posted in: What's up/blooming

In my mind there are two kinds of fall: "Good" Fall and "Bad" Fall. Good Fall is what we have now. The leaves on the trees are starting to turn color, temperatures have moderated so that you want to work in the garden again, the colchicums have started blooming and the many native autumn-blooming plants are at their peak, summer annuals are still going strong and some perennials are having a second flush of bloom. (Bad Fall is after the leaves drop and it's cold enough that they'd call it winter down South.) In this blog post, I'd like to share some of the best that autumn has to offer.

My Delightful Garden: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day September 2015

by Kathy Purdy September 20, 2015 – Posted in: What's up/blooming

This has been the best gardening year I can remember. Until a dry spell arrived in September, we enjoyed consistent rainfall and moderate temperatures. There is nothing like moist soil and a cool morning to draw a gardener into the garden, and that's where I went, leaving my blog behind me. Here are some of [...]

Pink and Orange: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day August 2014

by Kathy Purdy August 15, 2014 – Posted in: What's up/blooming

Greetings, cold climate gardeners! It's feeling autumnal around here, and starting to look it, too. The mid-August garden is a garden in transition. The early summer plants are looking shabby and the fall garden is just getting going. The beds that used to look so lush now have gaps in them because the Johnny-jump-ups have [...]

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Good Fall Is Here! Garden Bloggers Bloom Day September 2017

My Delightful Garden: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day September 2015

Pink and Orange: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day August 2014

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