Took advantage of the (forecasted) last day of the mild spell we've been having to do a little tidying up in the garden today, getting things ready for winter. I cut back a lot of dead foliage and mulched a few beds. There's still a few green things - mostly plants I started from seed last winter, which were slow to get going (like poppies and delphinia). Amazingly, one of my little delphiniums is about to bloom! Well, if the frost doesn't get it first.
A. lifted the dahlias from the planters (those won't survive the winter otherwise) and we have a bunch of raking to do tomorrow, to clear up the last of the leaves that have fallen. While I was in Boston last weekend, A. planted a bunch of bulbs and seeds for me - snowdrops, irises, bluebells, foxgloves, hollyhocks, lupins and more poppies. We'll see how those do, next spring.
Also tomorrow, we'll put away the patio furniture, and in a few more weeks, we'll need to cover some of the larger shrubs and bushes, to protect them from the heavy weight of snow. Then we should be just about ready for winter.
Yesterday, I was looking at the outdoor Christmas lights, stored away at the back of the shed. Guess we'll need to get those out soon enough. *sigh*
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