Fall in the Garden & Dreaming of New Plants

My life has been very hectic the last two weeks with issues related to my profession and I have been running around as though I was being chased by a monster.   I feel like I’m just starting to come up for air but I’m gulping a bit and feel a little dizzy but life is looking sweeter, especially now that Fall is here.   With summer  coming to an end, a new planting season is on the horizon and I’m trying to get organized with some ideas that I want to do in the garden.

The Wooly Blue Curls are looking less than lively and I think that it’s time to pull them out.   They certainly were a success and I enjoyed seeing their long blooms in the last two years.   There are some other plants that I am going to attempt to transplant to the backyard and I don’t know how successful I will be doing that but I need to move them, as its too crowded in the garden and eventually it’s going to look terrible if I don’t do something about it now.

I don’t have any definate plans to start landscaping the back as that’s another project for the future but I do plant on starting to place some plants along one of the walls between my yard and that of my neighbors.  Eventually, I would love to create another beautiful garden behind my house but money these days is an issue, so it will have to wait.

So with a little bit of wine and some time to relax and contemplate, I sat in the garden a couple of weeks ago and starting going through my native plant books for some ideas.   I’ve made a list of sorts but I’m still not sure what I’m going to do but I know that I’ll come up with something that I’ll like.

The Theodore Payne Nursery plant sale is coming up soon and I plan on being there on a Friday so that I can have a good choice of plants to pick from.   I look forward to seeing what they will have and simply hanging out in the nursery, inhaling the various scents of the plants and hearing my feet crunch along the gravel as I walk along.

This will be an time of renewal for me, away from the stresses of daily life.   What could be better?   Well, maybe hiking along a trail in the Sespe Wilderness!