Fall Is Here and So Is Its Garden!

Fall isn't messing around. The very first day and it's lettin' us know.  I was out last night after dark, walking, feeling too warm in shorts and a tee. Then boom---the earth turned, the dial clicked over to the EQUINOX setting, the temps dropped --and it's HERE! The cloudy, cool weather that has me reaching for my jacket.    

So HAPPY FALL!

And in celebration of fall I want to highlight the gorgeous, vibrant autumnal blooms in our native gardens-- planted by daughter Annabelle! Beautiful goldenrod, columbine and other names I can't remember but need to ask Annabelle to tell me again, lol.

Like these tall grasses....what were they? I don't know but they're beautiful. See our volunteer sunflowers that nobody planted but probably grew from all the sunflower bird see I used to throw down when this was all honeysuckle!

This sleepy-assed gnome is all asnooze in a luscious patch of BUFFALO GRASS!  One of my favorite things in our gardens---I grew up with it western Kansas and am homesick for it. Well it's going gangbusters in our garden, giving our lethargic gnome a comfy bed.  

     A second, more alert gnome watches over the prickly pear, black-eyed Susans and other things         growning in our rock garden, lined with the many, many rocks I hauled back from my many, many trips to western Kansas.

Out front of the house, a second native plant garden glows more glorious goldenrod, and other lovely pollinators, reaching their peak, now that it's fall.