Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Oct. 11

I thought the colors were so vibrant I just had to take a picture.

Now that I can again walk , hope to be resuming my trail walks so maybe will be able to contribute more.

Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Gorgeous, lucky photo! We will be looking forward to your trail walks!

More Butterfly-Friendly Flowers

Happy Fall KT!

I just had to stop and take a picture of these roadside zinnias. I like flowers that are hardy and can grow anywhere. I expect that they will provide colorful blooms until the first frost.

Cheers,

The Pilot

They are wonderful! The mostly semi-double blooms make them attractive to butterflies.

Below, some sources for interesting roadside flowers for next year. Single-flowered varieties are even better for attracting butterflies.

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Intrepid AoS Liaison/Admiral Ackbar garden report

Things are growing well here. The grape vines are full of rapidly darkening fruit, although this is the first year they've really produced, so I'm not sure how long to wait before harvesting. Likewise, the three aronia bushes on the back of the house are loaded, and I'll pull the berries off them soon.

We have a bunch of elderberry, which seem a bit more phased in ripening, with bunches of fruit ranging from green to almost black/fully ripe. They're kind of a pain to process, and I haven't done anything with the few pounds I harvested last year, but I guess that's what the deep freeze is for.

While walking around looking for things to photograph, I saw this tree covered in little bug eggs. Isn't nature beautiful?

There are some less-usual fruits there. Let us know when you blet your medlars.

I'm not sure what kind of bug eggs those are.

Puttering

good color pic.twitter.com/oZa74ZDAr2

— rven (@privannte) October 10, 2025

Finer art from Dr_No:

Beautiful and fall-ish

Gardens of The Horde

Look to the left of the moon flowers and you see a hummingbird next to the wind chimes!

Behind the walkway are hostas and the impatiens volunteers.

These are the impatiens volunteers from last year, growing in 6" of pebbles next to the back porch. Amazing life force. They're sprawling 1-2 feet onto the concrete.

p.s. hummingbird report: as of October 3, they're still here in the upstate (SC).

These make me so happy, Miley!

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Berry Enticing Guest Gardening Post [Lex]

Any thoughts or questions? Check out the late comments.

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

posted by K.T. at 01:29 PM

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