Yes, buying perennials can be very expensive! Maybe you could ask some neighbors for pieces of some of the things you need? Coneflower are pretty easy from seed; you’ll have luck with that. Just be warned; they love to revert back to their basic purple origins; I have some hybridized ones that are changing colors every year. And they were NOT cheap, either.
Anyone know what causes that other than Mother Nature, Herself?
Can’t wait to see pictures of your zinnias! They’ve been so pretty in the past. :)
I am SO ready for Fall, too. I love Fall and Spring, best. Summer and Winter are just work, work, work on the farm. Everything takes 100X longer to do in the Winter. But, I like the sports! We’re supposedly getting a lot of snow this Winter, which would be nice! Haven’t had my snowshoes out in 2 years! Grrrr!
Ellendra is your Elderberry expert, BTW.
Back to The Cannery with me, today. Dealing with apples, which isn’t turning out to be as horrible as I thought it would be. ‘Law & Order SVU’ marathon on TV will help while I’m chopping and peeling! :)
I’m up to my eyeballs in tomatoes and so am canning them up into sauce and stewed tomatoes. And giving away what I can.
I guess it’s been drier here than I realized because our pond is way down, but that has enabled us to do some work around the edge of it that needed to be done but is normally inaccessible.
Our wood splitting is coming along nicely. We’ll be warm for a couple winters at least.
Mom has a spot where she sprinkled some mixed seeds from a packet someone gave her. There were cone flowers & blanket flowers mixed in there. Of course, the cone flowers were the basic purple. I really liked them so I hope we can successfully grow them. I think the blanket flowers are really pretty and she could certainly use them in a lot of places for color.
The deer never used to eat the sedum, but two years ago, we had a doe with twins and she was HUNGRY. Our next door neighbor is the junk hole on the road - his front yard is so grown up you can’t see the house & that is where she stashed the twins while she was out & about. Once the twins were old enough, we saw them quite often. Anyway, that was the beginning of the sedum being eaten up. Either she’s still around & has developed a taste for them and/or the twins are copying their mom. We do have one big doe (twin mama, is that you?) hanging around this year - she goes & eats windfall apples under the old tree in the pasture, then my brother has seen her heading up our way so she’s probably checking out the salad bar. Mom has been covering the hostas with row cover at night & that has kept her from eating most of them.