Mowing the Lawn and Other Things

Spent a couple hours in the yard today. Got the lawn mowed, the front garden weeded, and the front planters planted with impatiens and sweet potato vines. 

Zapped In the Front Yard Too

The hard frost got the impatiens and sweet potato vines that have held on the longest because they are closest to the house.

Zapped

A couple nights ago we had a hard frost and the impatiens are pretty much done in. The pot you see here is pretty close to the house and the flowers closest to the house look okay and the ones on the outer edge of the pot are gone. All the other impatiens in the yard are dead.

Declining Daylight

Daylight is declining. We're under 13 hours.

More Back Stoop

I love how the impatiens in the blue pot have filled out. Obviously, they're quite tall at this point in the season. They won't be around much longer as I've found that impatiens tend to be pretty cold sensitive. They sure look good now, though! The two pots on the right are planted with rosemary. That would be my reflection in the door.

Impatiens

I love having white impatiens in shady parts of the yard because they really stand out.

Total Daylight: 14 Hours and 00 Minutes

The shorter days are becoming more and more obvious - especially so (to me, at least) in the evening. I'm up so much later than Dale is so I'll have to ask him if he's noticing a difference in the morning. The photo shows a pot of impatiens in the foreground and the pot of coleus in the background. Both are located by the rhubarb garden by the garage.

Sweet Potato Vine

I love the lime green color of the sweet potato vine. It's a nice contrast with the darker greens of the grass, leaves and many other plants. It also looks particularly good in the shade along with the white impatiens in the same planter.

The Yard of the House on Stevens

I've been digging through some old photo albums lately and scanning some pictures. Here's a couple of shots I found from the yard at the house on Stevens. The photos are most likely from 1984. In the first photo

you see the Blessed Mother near one of two trees on the south border of the backyard. Both trees were eventually torn down. During that period I was usually in charge of the impatiens in the flower box on the front side of the house. They'd usually grow pretty tall with the help of lots of water and a part of a banana peel I'd plant under each one for fertilizer.

The Strawberry Pot

I usually fill this with impatiens. Didn't snow yesterday but supposed to snow today. Blech...