Our garden is dressed in fall colors. Click on each image for more details:
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- Aloe vera
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- Cosmos
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- Texas tarragon
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- Marigolds
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- Zinnias
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- Recycled florist mums
Orange you glad it’s autumn?
06 Thursday Nov 2008
Posted in butterflies, gardening, organic gardening
valwebb.com 
A very pretty autumn display. The pumpkin tin suits the zinnias to a tea.
You grow similar plants as i do, like Aloe, cosmos, Mexican tarragon and I have always asters in autumn and now for spring i have planted Zinnias.
I garden in the subtropics in Australia
I new right away that I liked the Zinnias in the pumpkin can. I can see you are a genus at color coordinating. Your blog is beautiful.
I just love your sketchbook!
Great information and photos here in your autumn display.
I’ve started featuring North Carolina artists on my blog. Hopefully, a weekly thing. Today is the first “Gardens in Art” series article as a tribute to a late, local artist.
Cameron
Defining Your Home Garden
O love your flowers. i just hope i’ll be able to grow more flowers in my garden but i dont have a green thumb so i basically just grow easy to maintain plants.
You might see this around on others blogs but I had to share it with you because it might mean something to your post,
Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters To A Young Poet,
”Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth. At its source you will find the answer to the question, whether you must write. Accept it, however it sounds to you, without analyzing. Perhaps it will become apparent to you that you are indeed called to be a writer. Then, accept that fate; bear its burden, and its grandeur, without asking for the reward that might possibly come from without. For the creative artist must be a world of his own and must find everything within himself and in nature, to which he has betrothed himself.”
Titania: Thanks very much! I know you’ll agree that gardening in a subtropiccal climate is a mixed blessing. Continuous growing season = good. Year-round ravenous insect pests = bad. I enjoy YOUR blog, too!
Anna: You are so very kind. I must admit, though, that the pairing of the pumpkin can and zinnias was the work of The Perfect Man.
Cameron: I’m looking forward to more Carolina artist profiles. Very well done!
Mat: I think you are wise to avoid finicky plants. I do the same thing. (And your thumb is probably greener than you know.)
Hello, Mike! Thanks for the Rilke quote. I love the last sentence — I like the idea of the creative artist being betrothed to nature. Happy journeys, on the road…