Every year there is a sort of tipping point reached some time in November that signals the coming end of fall and beginning of winter. Yesterday seems to have been one of those days. Following a week of very mild weather, almost shirtsleeve weather, a biting cold arrived riding in on strong winds. Suddenly the …
Category: Roses, Shrubs and Small Trees, Vines Tags: Blackhaw Viburnum, Clethra alnifolia, Cranberrybush Viburnum, Flowering Dogwood, Illinois Rose, Lonicera sempervirens, Prairie Rose, Rosa 'Cassie', Rosa 'Darlow's Enigma', Rosa 'Sallie Holmes;, Rosa setigera, Rosa Westerland, Rose hips, Roses, Summersweet, trumpet honeysuckle, Viburnum prunifolium, Viburnum trilobum
Let’s start in the backyard. Rosa ‘Sally Holmes’ still has a few blooms, and even some buds straining to open before the frost. Most of the asters have gone to seed … But the dwarf New England Aster, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae ‘Purple Dome’, is a very late bloomer – it’s just hitting its stride. Rosa ‘Darlow’s …
Category: Grasses, Native Plants and Wildflowers, Perennial flowers, Shrubs and Small Trees Tags: Big Leaf Aster, Blackberry lilly, Chasmanthium latifolium, Cleome, Crabapple, fall, Grasses, Iris domestica, Native Plants, New England Aster, Northern Sea Oats, Northwind, Panicum virgatum, Prairie Dropseed, Purple Dome, Rosa 'Cassie', Rosa 'Darlow's Enigma', Rosa 'Sally Holmes', Roses, Senorita Rosalita, Sporobulus heterolepis, Switchgrass, Symphyotrichum macrophylum, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
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