October Beauties!!

 We are now a good week into October. The mornings are in the mid-30s and afternoons low-70s. I cut down and pulled up all my sunflowers this past weekend. I did save a few of the stalks and seed heads. I still need to start harvesting all the seeds I have so far.

I planted more bulbs over the weekend. I transplanted my pinnacle hydrangea to a more sunny spot in the yard. It is nothing but a woodsy bush right now. Maybe it will come back. 

I have 64 more tulip bulbs to plant. I think I will place them throughout the back corner garden and the front one. I hope I am still at the old homestead this spring. I just cannot tell with Stacey some days.

I did do up a fresh-cut flower arrangement using mostly zinnias. I loved the fall colors it was vibing.

My cosmos are blooming so pretty right now. I know if we do end up with a house with a yard, I will plant a bunch of cosmos. They are so whimsical looking.

The pretty cream mum I planted with a few pansies is showing touches of lavender. It is so beautiful.

This weekend will be a few more bulb-planting and probably looking at ways to over-winter my geraniums and lantana plants. Other than that, yard work and gardening are petering out. I will need to cut back the iris and gladiolus next weekend and ensure all the beds are weeded.

Fall Bulb Planting

 I have been planting so many daffodils these past couple of weekends! I have thus far planted nearly 80 bulbs in the back corner garden. I think this will look so gorgeous this Spring. I will plant a few tulip bulbs in that garden as well. I think between the daffodils, tulips, irises, and peonies that garden will be very vibrant this spring!!

I need to pick up one more package of the double-bloom pink daffodils and one more package of the double-bloom yellow daffodils. I am just shy of 10 plants to finish up a line of daffodils along the left side fence in the back corner garden with the pink daffodils and I decided to plant the yellow ones along part of the fence line in the side yard. I need one more package of the yellow ones to finish up that fence line as well.

I went to Home Depot on Saturday with the sole intention to pick up potting soil and 1 more package of daffodils. Well, I ended up with three new houseplants, four mums, six pansies, six dragon snaps, two cabbages, and one aster. I blame it on Keith because he had me look at some mums and then I saw the cabbage and it lead to potting up three new fall containers.

I love the color combo of this mum and pansies!!

I did move out the huge lime sweet potato vine from my front porch container. It had around eight tubers on it. I am going to try and grow my own vines next season with these tubers. I tried to remove the lavender that I placed in the container next to the garage. The bad boy is rooted in. I will have to try again soon because it requires such little water that any planter combination might end up looking like crap. I placed a boxed wood in the center of the planter and they are fighting one another for dominance. So I will attempt to remove the lavender on Sunday and transplant it in the front corner garden area.

The rest of the weekend I spent cleaning up our master bathroom so I can repaint it during the week. It has mold all above the shower area from when we removed the wallpaper and painted only one coat of paint when we moved in. I will apply some mold-resistant kilz paint and then paint it the original blue color we painted in the beginning hopefully tonight and tomorrow night. I think I might paint the hallway bathroom the same blue this week as well. We will then have to remove the wallpaper in the hallway and paint. Rango and Pepper decided to put a hole in the wall and now that it is patched we have to repaint the whole hallway. It is crazy how a golf ball size hole can cost so much time and money to repair. I am pretty sure we will have to repaint areas in the living room as well. The dogs have a solid dirty spot by their beds that are against the wall. I might be able to steam clean the areas. I hope that is all I need to do.

I think this might be the last weekend I can get a fresh-cut flower arrangement out of my sunflowers. I made an arrangement using only sunflowers with purple sweet potato vine as my frog.