More Garden Shopping & Jane Magnolias

Our Jane Magnolias in Full Bloom

We went shopping on Saturday at our local nurseries.  First up was Bates Nursery where picked up these 4 beauties:

Ashwood Elegance Hellebore

Scarlett O'Hara Peony

Black Tulip Magnolia Tree

Butterflies Magnolia Tree

Then we came home, unloaded and picked up Bella to head to Murfreesboro to the SouthBranch Nursery and we picked up this beauty:

Red-Leaf Japanese Maple Tree

And finally since traffic was at a stand still on the interstate we detoured through Donelson to the JVI Secret Gardens and picked up these 2 beauties:

Pink Dawn Peony

Queen of the Seas Hosta

It sure was a beautiful day for running around and visiting nurseries and we had a blast!

First Bargain of the Year

Needle Palm from Lowes

$84 On Clearance for $21

Made My Day!

Fall is Leaving

wild turkeys in the back field

pin oak

maple trees around the house

reading corner

looking into the garden from the road

crape myrtles are turning

Velvet napping

looking towards the back of the garden

looking from the back towards the front

backyard color

our fence line in back

cannas still blooming

dogwood and maple trees in side yard

looking up the maple tree

rhododendron still blooming

Mom's camellias blooming

The last couple of weekends have been fantastic, in the 70s with lots of sun.  We have sure gotten a lot done in the garden and are just about ready for winter.

Fall Berries for Wordless Wednesday

Fall Color

Yesterday afternoon I walked around the garden and took some pictures of our fall colors. We have had a fantastic fall this year! The month of October was wonderful, temps in the 60s and 70s for the most part with rain here and there.

blue skies looking from the back corner of the garden

maple tree in front yard next to the road

birdfeeders and water moved to the porch

Mom and Bella sit in the window to watch

the birds during the day

back patio we can't keep clean from the leaves falling

lilacs in full fall color

ginko tree is a beautiful shade of gold

barn at the back of the garden

We have had rain since this morning and hopefully it will stay all day. Sure will make pulling weeds a lot easier this weekend. Progress is being slowly made in the clean up but there is still a lot to do. We are trying to move peonies, iris and daylilies that have out grown their spots into the newly cleaned areas. I don't imagine we will have very many more weekends to get this done but then again there is always next year right around the corner.

Signs of Fall

mums by the back door

oak leaf hydrangea turning bronze

yellow roses still blooming

maple tree in front yard

pink roses still blooming

Alan cut down the dead red tip photinia bush

now we are ready for a new rose bed

autumn clementis spreading their seeds

pink geraniums still blooming good

thank goodness for these and the roses

or there would be no blooms in the garden

Velvet standing guard

one last mowing of the field next to our garden

We are sure having a dry fall this year, very hot and dusty when mowing. Hopefully we will get some much needed rain in the next few weeks.