How can it be that today is September 20th? Summer has come, and summer has gone.
Already, my garden screams AUTUMN. The garden has an overall appearance of being less tended at this point. That’s because it is. That’s because I like it that way in the fall. There are spent blooms with seeds for the birds, leaves that are a tad more yellow, and everything borders on overgrown (sometimes on the wrong side of the border).
The flowers though, oh, the flowers. There is so much in bloom.
I’ll tease you by saying there of are lots of dahlias. In our yard, that’s a given. You’ll have to come back another day to see those.
For now, just take a look at this abundance!
If you still don’t want to believe me that it’s autumn, look at the calendar yourself. Oops – you got me. It shows that fall doesn’t start till Friday, which is September 23rd. I beg to differ based on my garden. I bet The Growing Place in Aurora/Naperville would disagree as well. They grew these great scarecrows for their Fall Harvest Party last weekend.
For more fall events at The Growing Place, check out their calendar. The Growing Place is offering a cornucopia of garden related classes including containers, bulbs, birds, and fall color and winter interest. If you’re ready to leave the garden to exercise your creative side, they have classes for you as well. The mosaic classes sound irresistable to me. You’ve seen the top of my blog page showing my mosaic, so you can see why those would appeal to me. The beginners class is 9/24 and the intermediate class is 10/1.
Last weekend was also Pioneer Days in Elk Grove Village. The Garden Club hosted the Scarecrow Factory, where families got to exercise their creativity. Those pictures will be coming soon.
Too impatient to wait for scarecrow and pumpkin ideas? I understand. Click on September and October 2010 in the archives at the top right.
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