Showing posts with label October. Show all posts
Showing posts with label October. Show all posts

Monday, November 1, 2010

October Gardening = Hard Work!

October gardening is hard work!














Time to move plants and trim hedges!















The flowers in the front were crowded.














The green and white ornamental grass has grown so well that it is now crowding out other plants.














Time to divide!














I've planted bunches of the divided grass along the road...














Especially in places where vehicles like to turn around (and tear up the grass)!














In the backyard, the hedge needed trimming...














It was hard work!














(And the compost heap grew!)














But now it looks so much better!

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Unwanted Gardening "Helpers"

I enjoy gardening... but - who am I fooling? I'm not really in control...

I work and plan, but little neighborhood "helpers" have plans of their own...

Resident skunks - whom I rarely see, wander around at night, tearing up strips of lawn in search of grubs to eat...














(Can you see the spots of black in the grass?!) They seem to leave the flower beds alone... which is one of the reasons I've been planting more flowers.

But the flower beds are the favorites haunts of the squirrels - who spend their days planting seeds - which become little trees! Like this little sumac I just discovered in my flower bed! (Actually I discovered two!)














(Sumacs are so pretty in the fall... maybe I should let this one grow!)














I'm torn: I love to live in harmony with nature - but if I don't fight back (reseeding the grass, pulling out the trees) our yard would soon become a forest!