First frost warning

Tonight it is to go down to freezing... first time this season. Usually this happens weeks earlier. So today i spent doing prefrost activities. Bringing in pots to overwinter. Bringing in the garden hose, statuary and glass birdbath. We got most of the pots in. There are a couple big clay pots that we'll bring in later... too much to do today.
I also transplanted a bunch of the asters out of the main bed and to various other beds around the yard. I moved the orange daylily that the deer love so much from the side garden to the main garden. I also placed more tree fertilizer stakes.

End of Season Daylily

they say that tomorrow night we will be getting our first frost. The latest that i can ever remember...

Saturday morning transplants

Today finally felt like fall! Cool breezes and cloudy skies. I started my morning by "planting" tree fertilizer stakes. Trying to help out the trees as much as possible.
I also did some transplanting of more stella d'oro daylilies to the outside sidewalk bed. A total of five daylilies... and one daylily added to the central bed. I dug out some liriope and placed under the birches. I also moved a clump of oatgrass over near the new spruce tree. The was also a lupine mixed in with one daylily... i separated it and planted it near the butterfly bushes.

Fall Planting & transplanting

This evening the weather felt cool and the clouds moved in. The breezes helped to motivate me to plant the Austrian Pine that I purchased on sale. It's about 2 ft. high. Planted along the property line near the lilacs. I also transplanted two stella doro daylilies from under the birch tree to the outer sidewalk bed. I think it will be a nice compliment to the creeping phlox. I want to transplant three more stella d'oros.

Cool and Rainy- YEAH!!!

It has finally cooled off and it's raining off and on... mostly drizzle. I am so happy to finally have some fall weather. I was getting really tired of carrying bucket upon bucket of water to my new trees. Even my older trees were looking stressed from lack of water. So I'm hoping for more (a week maybe?) of this cool, wet weather.

Cooling Down...

After 21 days of at or well above normal, we are finally going to have some autumnal weather. 60s and 50 for the next week. hurray!!! And hopefully some much needed rain will arrive as well. We have had only a trace amount of rain for October so far. sigh...

Too Darn Hot...

We continue with a heat wave in October. Instead of the norms of highs in the 70s... we have highs in the high 80s... and another hot one tomorrow. I'm really concerned with out newly planted trees as well as our smaller trees (they are showing signs of stress). We have been carrying water form the rain barrels up until today. The barrels are empty and it's still hot. This evening we got out the hose for only the second time this growing season. They say that it will cool off to normal on Tuesday and then it will be cooler than normal... geesh. I just want a few weeks in the 70s.