For years the debate has gone on about PMs in the garden. I was amazed to see one eatting a snake 4 times its size.
Google it for videos....

It's like my predatory Cooper's Hawks. Majestic, beautiful, and I love them ... until they swoop down on a bird at my feeders or in my big pine tree and make a meal out of it. Then I hate them.

Tee. Love the look of one though. They just need to leave the birds all within a 1 mile radius of me so I can't see them and all is well with my world. What I ndon't know won't hurt me and after all it is the circle of life. In y head I understand that,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, but...................

Yes, head and heart are two very different things, aren't they.

boy I had no Idea they could catch and eat things so large ,now I know why I always find them in the pots under the pole light..Good eats at night

Today Lowe's had the best assortment of perennials they've had all year! And very good prices.
Got some Agastache and Russian sage that are huge and mature. Also alot of Mums and pansies.
Ah, Fall is a great time to plant in North Carolina, since it is probably the only rainy time of the entire year.

Its always good to garden when the temps are low and humidity matches.

sand ,your tempting me to go to lowes...LOL...37 this am...brrrr,spose to be sunny and 58 today,son in law coming to cut wood,I know what Iwill be doing ..the grunt work dragging and maybe burning,yea i ll start a fire. Need to start cleanning up the gardens too,hoping the rest of the leaves fall.. ..LOL...We need to do leaves then walnuts for the 3rd time,squirrels will be happy good nut year.big piles..for them ...a sunflower from earlier

Pretty sunnies, Tamara

Karen

Pretty, Tamara!
A new Spider 'Medicine Feather' DL opened, in the new bed!! It's nothing spectacular, but was happy to see it made it before the frosts.
It's real chilly this morning too.

We had frost last night and the night before. Sigh!

Not yet, thank heavens.

Yesterday morning there was a few patches of light frost here and there but nothing this morning that I can see............................It only got down to about 38 though, I think.

Frost & mist in low spots this morning, but we seemed to have escaped.

Hi everyone - I've been in and out so much that I'm not sure which way I'm headed next but I thought I'd stop by. Love, love, love all the pics you all have been putting up!

I'm currently in Mum heaven. This is Maroon Pride with a NOID:



This is Pat Lehman - she's actually a little pinker than this shows:



Here's Cheerleader - a big time flopper, but such nice, big blooms... and lots of 'em. These aren't completely open, yet.



And my Montauk daisies - they flopped too, 'cause I put them in too shady of an area, but they're still blooming, amazingly enough!




Hope you enjoy!

Gorgeous! What would we do without the mums and daisies this time of year?

There was frost Sat. night in the lower parts of town. It was strange to see fog in some spots & not others. The small 'zonal' geranium on the front porch is in good shape overall, but the last stem which was trying to bloom got touched. Did not get any mums this year. they don't last until spring. They have to be planted in the spring to do that.

Beautiful Mums, Sheryl! Love the colors.

Beautiful pictures.

Karen

Thanks! Tee, it would be a sorry world without them, eh?

There's more, believe it or not... I bought in on one of Mamajack's mum co-ops a couple of years ago, and despite some heavy loses of plants I had left in pots, I still have quite a few.

And I gladly supply cuttings, lol....