The maple trees are just starting to color up, but this frost should hurry that along.
Here are some pictures from yesterday...pre-frost. Zinnias, roses and purple sweet potato vine
This bee was very sluggish but eventually flew away.
The loropetalum is blooming nicely.
A brave Stella D'Oro daylily still blooming
The new mailbox
Knock Out roses are still blooming
But this morning, post frost, a different look.
We are due for another freeze tonight, about the same 25-27. High today 52. Then by next Tuesday we will warm up 25 degrees or more to 75 hi - 55 lo.
We're expecting our first frost Monday night or Tuesday morning. Of course it would happen right after I finally picked 5 ripe snap peas from the fall planting. I need to get out and get a picture of my last cosmos. They look like a big bouquet right now, so pretty! It's too bad all the others blew over in the last wind storm, they would have been putting on quite a show by now. Roses have buds, but no blossoms, and the geraniums are blooming more profusely than they did all summer!
ReplyDeleteIt's 11 PM and 28 out right now, so we have the second night of frost. Welcome to late October. I remember a few Halloween nights in Moses Lake when it was REALLY cold!
DeleteIt was 30 here this morning and all the flowers that had been flourishing look pretty bad today. We covered the herbs and I cut all the jalapeños off. We moved our big palm and some of the ferns to my son's gun club.
ReplyDeleteYour Knock Out roses are beautiful. I don't think ours get enough sun.
Yes, summer is over!
DeleteOur roses are in full sun. Of course, with all new trees and such, everything around here not on the north side of the house is in full sun!