Gardening in Pennsylvania ~ October 2013
Welcome to my small town Pennsylvania garden in October!
I would be delighted to show you around our corner here in US zone 5. The foliage colors are intensifying this month, though they have not yet reached their climax. Our first frost is still on its way this year. Hurray for a few more weeks with tender plants in the garden! The begonias, cannas, dahlias and annuals are still adding their pretty bit to the mix.
Come talk a walk around...
I would be delighted to show you around our corner here in US zone 5. The foliage colors are intensifying this month, though they have not yet reached their climax. Our first frost is still on its way this year. Hurray for a few more weeks with tender plants in the garden! The begonias, cannas, dahlias and annuals are still adding their pretty bit to the mix.
Come talk a walk around...
The Hill Garden with Canna 'King Humbert', Echinacea purpurea, Berberis purpurea, and glorious yellow maples (Acer) leaves for autumn.
Seed heads of purple coneflower, Echinacea purpurea, are standing beautifully in the Hill Garden this month. They will stand up most of the winter, providing a fun perch for the first snow flakes and for the birds that will come lookin
A nice surprise on our Front Walk: a bloom of Dahlia 'Jean Marie' is lying on top of the fresh forget-me-not foliage.
Our front curb strip planting, known as the Front Woodland, is coloring up for the fall. Sedum 'Acre', which is used extensively in our curb plantings, always brightens into an electric chartreuse at this time of year.
The bumbles are still captivated by our native flat-topped aster, Doellingeria umbellata. It began flowering in August and keeps flowering profusely until the end of October. To find some seeds for your garden, just raid your local aba
Cherry Corner, which is just feet from a stop sign, makes a nice border to our front yard.
Mums, Euphorbia 'Diamond Frost' and Lamium maculatum among the pruned daylily foliage.
Nasturtium, Tropaeolum, in a pot of Sorbaria sorbifolia, False Spirea.
If you peek over the edge of our garden, you will see the Shade Path that reaches to the gate. Begonias are still blooming away here, as well as some more surprises for fall...
The yellow perennial foxglove, Digitalis grandiflora, regularly re-blooms in this garden for autumn. Cornus florida looks lovely here in its red foliage.
The early color of dwarf Fothergilla gardenii. It will continue to deep over the next month until it is positively aflame.
Hydrangea 'Limelight' changes from whtie to vibrant pink as October continues here in Pennsylvania.
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Love your fall garden! We are having a really late fall this year in North Atlanta! Our weather has a touch of fall and I have my pumpkin on the mailbox, but the trees are still green!
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Where in PA are you I am outside Rockwood and I love gardening here
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