In view of the fact that we are about to have a hard freeze and most of this stuff won't look like this in a week and that we are going to get frozen global warming next week, I offer a walk around the Redlin yard for your viewing Enjoyment.
This is a picture of Multiflora Cotoneaster. Big shrub, showy berries that stay on after leaf drop. makes a nice show and feeds the birds. I didn't plant it, it was here want I came.
This is the planter just outside our patio area in the back. I take most of this stuff in the greenhouse in the fall. Not quiet yet, but very soon. It's pretty with the purple wave petunias. There is a petunia smell memory I carry from my youth. Love it.
The hardy deciduous holly. Winterberry. Ilex verticillata. When the leaves fall if we get to it before the birds do, it's a beautiful addition to a floral arrangement outdoors.
Our front yard just outside the window. We don't need no drapes because we are surrounded. We have em, but we don't need em.
One is this crab, Prairie Rose. It is fruitless and has a glorious double pink flower. It's also pretty much disease free. I'm planting it right where the Yellow mums are. Note the native planting behind. It's my neighbor. I like it. Lot's think it looks weedy.
Right at the end of our driveway is this planting. To the right is a trellised late clematis, two colors of asters and morning glory.
The cockscomb mixed with moss roses is a multicolor circus. And Morning Glory everywhere.
A closeup of the native aster. If you look carefully, there's a bee trying to get just a little more nectar to drink for winter.
It's coming.
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