Last night the temperature fell below freezing for the first time this fall, leaving the early morning garden edged in white crystals.
A few plants lay limp, but many withstood the abrupt drop from last week’s high seventies fairly well. Clearly though the morning’s silvery, frosty landscape signals another transitional period in the cycle of the garden.
- Frosty Morning Garden View
- Cosmos and Stachys byzantina (Lamb’s Ear) in Side Garden
- Clematis ‘Jackmanii’
- Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine and Lavender
- Stachys byzantina (Lamb’s Ear), Iris
- Pink Yarrow and Stachys byzantina (Lamb’s Ear)
- Pink Yarrow
- Pink Sweet Pea
- Chrysanthemum
- Cornus florida (Flowering Dogwood)
- Echinacea (Purple Coneflower) and Periwinkle (Vinca)
- Gaura
- Periwinkle (Vinca)
- Salvia ‘Blue Sky,’ Echinacea (Purple Coneflower) and Tradescantia (Spiderwort)
- Meditation Circle
- Iberis Sempervirens (Candytuft), Thyme, Penstemon ‘Pike’s Peak Purple’
- Iberis Sempervirens (Candytuft)