October 2019 – Gramma Penny's Garden

The growing season is about over in my neck of the woods. There are still mums and asters and a few other things blooming, but I’ve begun the seasonal garden clean-up. The garden looked like this in mid-October.

Smokebush, monkshood and Sedum Autumn Joy

The colors changed some more as the weeks progressed

Red blossomed pineapple sage still blooming in the corner of the new veggie bed

This big fella wandered through the yard one morning

These 4 deer (look carefully) made an appearance

My favorite visitor sniffing the air – she knew there were critters around

As you can see here, I have begun cutting back the daylilies and I moved a trellis against the fence

It has been a beautiful autumn. There’s always lots of work to do when putting the garden to bed for the winter, but with all the visitors and pretty colors, the chore has been more enjoyable.

The veggies were amazing this year. However, the retaining wall separating the two tiered raised bed had been eaten away by ants and was rotting away. What to do? Garden club friend Celia was replacing a retaining wall and had stones she did not need! So we rescued them.