Nov. 19th, 2015 09:50 am
Leaf report
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muckefuckSo the weather has finally turned. Yesterday, the high was 16°C. Today it's projected to be half that and tomorrow it should drop below freezing for the first time since March. Having seen the forecast, the Old Man took down our hanging baskets and dug out the geraniums. Some time after I got home, I put the big ones in the planters flanking the entrance into pots and sank the fading chrysanthemums into the garden. All that's left is to repot some rosemary and store the dahlia properly for the winter.
Although many trees are bare, the colours are as good as they've been all season. Dark red maples and Bradford pears are overrepresented among the remaining foliage, which has a dramatic effect, especially when accented with firebushes and the like. Early fall was dry, but it's wet now which makes a difference. I've been getting some help with the leaves this year, but even so I had more than I knew what to do with even after raking scads of them into the street to be taken away by streetsweepers. So I literally dug a hole in the ground and buried them.
Although many trees are bare, the colours are as good as they've been all season. Dark red maples and Bradford pears are overrepresented among the remaining foliage, which has a dramatic effect, especially when accented with firebushes and the like. Early fall was dry, but it's wet now which makes a difference. I've been getting some help with the leaves this year, but even so I had more than I knew what to do with even after raking scads of them into the street to be taken away by streetsweepers. So I literally dug a hole in the ground and buried them.
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