Fall yard garden pics

[jojo54]

Here are a few pics I took of my yard this fall.

Mountain ash tree

apricot tree

mountain ash and cedar trees

chrysanthemums

statue that looks almost identical to late Coco (our cocker cross)

How about others show fall in their yards in their part of the world.
:rainbow-sun

 

[beefy]

i thought that was a real dog going to the bathroom at first..

 

[PunkinPeep]

i thought that was a real dog going to the bathroom at first..

 

[obsessed]

I love love love your chrysantheums!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[injunjoe]

Wonderful pictures!
Thank you for sharing. not only are the trees and flowers nice but the view is wonderful !

Sorry about Coco.

Joe

 

[digitS']

I think I'd better not post pictures . . . these folks can attest to my lack of skill.

I'm curious what winter means to you, JoJo. You are far into the interior. Not exactly Saskatchewan but . . . still. Are you sure that you are in zone 6b??

That would mean never (or, almost never) below -5F or -20C.

My mother's parents lived for a time in Hope, quite a ways downstream from your home. Grandfather was a Canadian and died when I was just a little guy. He is buried in Hope.

Grandma moved back to California where her oldest children were born and living then. And, I found her there . . . in her garden, many, many years ago. But, I've visited Hope and a few points north.

Steve

 

[jojo54]

I wasn't sure what zone I was but found a site that gave your zone when you entered your postal code so that is what I used. http://www.basalt.ca/plant-hardiness-zone-finder.html I found another site that listed our zone as 4B. So your guess is as good as mine.

It is a confusing area because we have a long growing season (I planted my garden starting April 8) but people around here were saying not to plant until after the long weekend in May. (that sounds more like Saskatchewan to me) It gets very hot and sunny with very little rain but does freeze in the winter.

I've only had one growing season here but are unsure by talking to people because everyone says something different and they don't seem to agree with the weather we had this year (unless this was very unusual)

We got some snow last winter and were told that it lasted longer than usual. From what I've seen winter is overcast and very windy.

We were in Hope for a couple of weeks and the season there starts earlier than here. It is also very, very green because it is so rainy there. (many of the houses have moss growing on their rooves)

 

[Lavender2]

OH WOW the view! Love the mums!
I had no idea you could grow apricots up there.
Thanks for sharing your fall colors with us!... OH WOW ... the VIEW!

OK... I will share Fall ... in a MN swamp ... and my lil mums now...

 

[digitS']

Are you getting snow this morning, JoJo?

I enjoy looking at maps, JoJo. They draw me to places I've never been. And, I haven't been to Lillooet. I've turned east to Kamloops rather than west towards your city there in the mountain valleys. You should know that your "extreme minimums" there in Lillooet are -26C in January even if you are only living at 200 meters elevation. National Climate Data

Here's a map issued by the Canadian government for hardiness zones: Natural Resources Canada Click on your part of the world until British Columbia is centered and then increase the map size up to XL.

Sure enuf, your garden in Lillooet could be a zone 6! The valley around appears to be mostly zone 5 and since the nearby terrain is so steep, it really depends on elevation how one might designate their home there.

Where I garden, hundreds of miles to your southeast, the winter climate is similar to the Kootenai River valley. Once again, elevation makes a big, big difference. It's a little drier here than on the Kootenai, however. Not drier than your home, perhaps, but it isn't too far to the Columbia Basin desert from here. It could be that few people reading this ever think about a desert in the "Evergreen State" of Washington. Let me assure you, there are plenty of Washingtonians on the other side of the mountains who never think about the eastern side of the state either .

I was reading just the other day about how northern Idaho became a part of Idaho rather than Washington. It was a part of Washington territory at one time. Well, it was a decision by the government in Olympia . . . The politicians felt that the Idahoans would be so difficult to govern and their interests so different from the interests of people on the Puget Sound that they were happy to let them go .

My family came here in 1895 but seemed to have a real problem deciding whether they wanted to live in Washington or Idaho . And, once here in the West, their family connections developed from southern BC to southern California .

Since my interests are mostly with garden annuals - winter hardiness mostly means whether I can stand to live here from November to April . I recently learned that the summer climate here is very, very similar to northern Spain ! I can't tell you how interested that makes me in what the Spanish people are growing in their gardens!!

Steve