Wednesday, September 17, 2025
I stopped by Bachmann's today to pick up some flowers for our garden. With all of the malarky going on in the world today I'm looking forward to creating something of beauty. I've meant to do more in the yard this summer in terms of planting flowers but this is the first I'm getting to it.
Picked up some celosia (also known a plumed cockscomb) and some mums.
The celosia is the tall stuff that looks like flames and the mums have the more traditional looking flowers. Dale's always loved the garden in autumn. I do too. Even when I plant in the spring I like to go with fall colors in anticipation of late August thru October. Now there's even warmish weather into November. Although I'll never complain about pleasant weather, summer in November in Minnesota is quite sad for the overall state of the planet.
It got quite shaggy while we were in Arizona for nearly a couple weeks and I felt I was back in the 70s when we got home on Monday.
The daylilies are not flowering as prolifically as they were earlier in the summer but we still get a few blooms now and then.
The ferns have held up pretty well this year and have lasted quite a while mostly due to the amount of rain we've gotten however they're starting to brown....
...although not nearly as much as the lily-of-the-valley.
The sedums are flowering and will turn a brilliant auburn red as we progress through fall.
Bought a few gourds at Bachmann's too but these will stay in the house for now as the squirrels will gnaw them mercilessly.
