I’m surprised, no, shocked, that we still have so many flowers blooming here in the garden. It did get to 32 F. one night last week, and the tomato and squash plants are gone, but the flowers continue to amaze. ‘Bill’s Big Blue’ aster is blooming and so are the red salvias and my new favorite, Agastache ‘Joyful.’ Campanula incurva started blooming in late July and it still has quite a few flowers. Many of the yarrow are reblooming and so are the catmints. Rudbeckias are, too. I don’t think we’ve ever had so much survive to flower this late in October.
We didn’t have deer damage in the gardens this summer, but lately they’ve been wandering through, nibbling on this and that. They ate the hollyhocks in the garden, down to almost nothing. I see new leaves appearing at the base of the plant, so hopefully they’ll have enough strength to survive the winter.
We saw our last hummingbird for this season on October 8. Luckily we have lots of other birds here to entertain us.
Magpie
We don’t usually see redwing blackbirds this time of year, but one joined the blue jay.
Female redwing blackbirds.
