Winter is coming. Frozen birdbath. Photo: ©nini-tjader.2018
Wintergarden
Winter is coming, There is no denying it. It IS coming. We have already had a couple of frostnights. We have seen the very first few snowflakes the other day. They werenät many and immediately disappeared, but they were there…
The garden through the kitchen-window, 2018-10-29. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
It has also been rainy, dark, windy… No fun at all. The darkness is the worse. Having to turn on the light indoors already in the morning and for the rest of the day is… well, depressing.
Move of plantbox
The old plantbox. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
I have moved the content of the old box in the backgarden to a new, smaller box along the fence. I didn’t want to have it here, just in the wind from the radon fan, any longer. Especially since a second tub to draw out the radon from the ground was installed there on October 31st so even more of the radon would get blown onto that area before dissolving into the air. The blueberry-bushes beside it will stay though.
New plantbox
New plantbox
Plants waiting for new plantbox
Old plantbox getting emptied
Where the old plantbox was
The old plantbox
Where the old box was, I have sown grass. The parsley has been harvested and is now in the freezer. I didn’t harvest the chives, but I hope it will come up again next year. The old plantbox was all rotten, which I didn’t see until I wanted to move it. So a new box was necessary. The new box turned out to be smaller than the old one so the lemon balm had to be planted outside of the box. I also had to put a smallish “fence” around the plants in the new box so the cats would go there. Alice the cat tried to before I put the small “fence” there…
Withering plants
But winter is coming and the plants are withering. November, as it is now, is a month when the garden is at its ugliest.
Autumn garden. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
But there is still some life here and there. As long as it is, there are colors.
Frozen orpine. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
There has been frost some nights. The frost changes the plants. Now it is relatively warm again and no frost.
The backgarden. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
Autumn colors are beautiful, but…
Hosta/funkia, 2018-10-06. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
Since I shot the above picture, the funkia/hosta has all withered down and is totally gone. See you in the spring next year.
Lavender and aronia. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
The lavender was in bloom for its second time late in the autumn and after I replanted this one just behind the aronia. The aronia gets bright red leaves (gone now) and black berries that neither I nor the birds like… But they are decorative…
Helenium Moreheim Beauty. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
The helenium Moreheim Beauty lasted longer into the autumn this year than earlier years. It still has a flower here and there… but most is gone now. The above birdbath has now been taken indoors as I don’t think the ceramics would manage the winter-cold and temperatures below zero.
Mint and peppermint. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
Something that never give up is the mint and the peppermint in the backgarden. Blooming again, And growing. I have harvested and dried a lot of it, but since it has grown again. I will not harvest more now befor winter is coming.
Behind the patio. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
On the backside of the patio-fence I have a climbing hortensia growing. In the spring when we were supposed to re-oil the planks with black-pigmented oil, I didn’t do the backside as the eaves and flowers of the climbing hortensia had just come out then. I waited for the leaves to fall off in the autumn. When they did and the weather was unusually watm, I finally oiled also the backside of the plank. Went all well.
Plants moved indoors
Plants moved indoors. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
With the winter coming, plants have moved indoors to avoid the frost and the coming snow. It is MUCH too crowded. After a few weeks indoors by now, some of the plants are already thrown out as they didn’t like the indoor life.
Plectranthus scutellarioides
Pelargonia bontrosai
Red basil
Pelargonia Attar of roses
Pelargonia bontrosai
The two pelargonia bontrosai now live in the kitchen-windows as does the red basil (which re-started itself and started to bloom again in October and get new leaves). The pelargonia Attar of Roses lives in the bedroom and is HUGE. Have given away parts of it to some ladies in my gym-group. The Plectranthus scutellarioides got so tired and messy so it ended up in the waste and is no more.
Livingroomwindow. Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
Bedroomwindow, Photo: ©nini.tjader.2018
The pelargonias have finally stopped blooming. The leaves on the figtrees in the livingroom are falling off.
I keep throwing out plants that look just too awful after some time indoors. More will be thrown out. As for the pelargonias I take cuttings of them before they get thrown into the waste. I normally do not take cuttings in the autumn, but this year I do. They take up far too much space and look just too awful… Cannot stand looking at them all the winter.
Winter IS coming.
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