My Fall views

[Lavender2]

Fall IS really beautiful.. I just wish it would last a bit longer... like until winter is over would be nice...

My sleeping hostas are NOT pretty!!
But they say 60 degrees and dry for the weekend ... YAY... maybe we can get the other ton of leaves on the compost pile!

 

[jojo54]

Gorgeous pics. Thanks for sharing. :happy_flower

 

[injunjoe]

Wow what beautiful photos!
A wonderful view you have. What kind of fish do you get out of that lake there?
I love eating fish, catching them is fun but I rather eat them.

Thank you

Joe

 

[Lavender2]

Thanks Joe(s)

The lake is really just a pond, about 4 acres. It's shallow, about 4-6 feet, so it freezes out in winter... makes a nice ice rink for the kids...
That view is from my kitchen.

It does get some fish since it has inlets from creeks from the wild life preserve (many thousands of acres, starting at the tree line past the pond). Lots of ducks, geese, egrets, frogs, turtles, deer and an occasional bear.

The town I live in is over half water, 5 lakes within about 15 minutes... I love to fish, but have not done much lately.
Walleye is my favorite, but Northern pike seem to like my hook better...

I will show you winter soon... it will make you put a blanket on...

 

[Greensage45]

Oh that is stunning! I love the paintings when they are real! Gorgeous mums! Funny how it takes them all year to get to the end!



Ron

 

[digitS']

Beautiful photo's, beautiful mums . . . . you have Castorbeans!!

I'm really curious if you have chickens! I think my chickens have made themselves sick (before they got some sense) eating black locust seeds. And, when they finally discovered the rhubarb plants - one of them just up and died. She looked perfectly normal that morning.

Can you get away with having castorbeans if'n you have chickens? (And, of course, I'm assuming that you found this place by way of BYC. I bet that's an assumption I'm going to have to drop, one of these days .)

My son now lives in Minneapolis. He lived for years in Seattle and Portland so last winter was quite a change for him. He wants me to come visit him this winter ! I don't know . . . . It's encouraging that you have a zone 5 designation but I have a tough enuf time here in a zone 5 winter!

Oh, and not too many mum varieties make it to flowering here. I've even had especially hardy types go right into winter covered with buds and almost zero flowers :/.

Steve

 

[Lavender2]

Steve ... I had never heard of BYC until I found TEG, just FYI... ...
Can't remember how I found TEG either, one of my wild plant searches I guess...

I love Castor bean plants! It's the closest I can get to the tropical look around here... easy from seed and the deer won't eat 'em!
We had chickens years ago and also raised ducks. I did licensed childcare in my home... too many regulations were brewing so we gave them up rather than hassle with it. My daughter now raises chickens in WI tho... great fun to watch our little grand daughter (3) run out to tend them!

I'm about 20 miles North of MPLS. Last winter was a horrid one! TOO white for too long! ... even for me! (born and raised and don't know any better ) Tip: Avoid January, May is nice... :happy_flower

Technically, I am zone 3 or 4 or 5... depends on the source. I go with zone 5 because of the many zone 5 plants that I have success with.
My growing season is 43 - late May to mid Sept.
Great link if you haven't run across this one yet... http://www.tomatofest.com/tomato-growing-zone-map.html

Mums... I have best luck with the shorter garden mum varieties. The red is 'Ruby Mound' (I think) .. the lght pink daisy type is 'Clara Curtis', grows anywhere and will run amok if you don't watch her!
I can't find the link at the moment, but look for a good source for garden mums... they will rate them early, mid, late season bloomers.
I don't pinch them back as recommended... I'm afraid it will send their bloom too late, and the shorter types really show nice without pinching.

Thank you for your comments ...

 

[digitS']

It's interesting that you have used a page from Tomatofest, Lavender. You didn't know but I was born in Carmel, the home of Tomatofest. I bet they wouldn't let me back inside the city limits these days.

The Monterrey Peninsula in November looks a lot like the Monterrey Peninsula at other times of the year. There's a challenge for any gardeners thereabouts to post some fall pictures!

I have spent a lot of time on Tomatofest - - what a website! Mostly, I'm always looking at tomato varieties that might ripen, without unusual measures taken, in a place with very cool nights.

Tomatofest separates out "cooler climate" varieties but, honestly, I believe Gary Ibsen is thinking about coastal climates. This area doesn't have a coastal growing season, that's for sure. Choices for here are ones that can continue growing thru cool nights but take hot, dry, sunny days.

I'm not just now looking for daycare options for my son . . . he will be 40 in 2010 !

Steve
dropping all assumptions of a relationship between BYC & TEG . . .

 

[obsessed]

What are the names of the pretty pretty pretty flowers?