10/8/13. Morning glory at Karen’s garden on Mt. Hermon at Delaware. Note the mums to the left. Blogfinger photo taken around 1:00 pm. The morning glory flowers tend to fade toward the end of the day.
By Eileen Goldfinger, house and garden editor @Blogfinger (with accompaniment by Paul on the keyboard.)
The big thing for fall flora in the Grove are chrysanthemums. You expect morning glories in the spring, but there are some species that like cold weather. In the above case of fall flora in the Grove, the gardener may have planted these seeds in the summer. This plant is in a pot. Morning glories can be invasive.
Hydrangeas on Pilgrim Pathway. 10/8/13. All photos © by Paul Goldfinger
The hydrangeas around town turned a lovely reddish color late in the summer, but many of those blooms are now becoming dry and brown and should be pruned and discarded. If you have some nice hydrangea flowers now (as above,) you can prune them and bring them into the house for a dry fall arrangement. Just stick them in a vase—no water needed.
Daisies on Abbott Ave. 10/8/13 ©
We did notice some white daisies around the Grove. Our garden still has multicolored lantana, zinnias, begonias and New Guinea impatiens. The liriope has bluish lavender flowers that turn into a dark blue berry. The recent warm weather has given the begonias and impatiens some extra life.
The Aanensen’s had an awesome fall display at their home, the Tali Essen Morgan House on Abbott Avenue. In one fell swoop, Paul was able to take a photo that included mums, lantana, coleus, and begonias.
Tali Essen Morgan House on Abbott Ave. 10/8/13 ©
Editor’s Note: We have never had a fell swoop before on Blogfinger—in fact, we don’t even know what it is. Maybe we can join the zombies in the Guinness Book of Dopey Records. –Paul
“IT’S YOU” (by the cast of “Dames at Sea”) is dedicated to all those gardeners in Ocean Grove who create wonderful gardens–secret and public and too shady and sun speckled–around town designed to delight all the walkers who enjoy the Grove (aptly named) with all its surprises including the flora and fauna (including the girls in their summer dresses and short shorts that defy gravity) —-PG
I have been Happily Jealous of Karen’s Morning Glories these past few weeks. Some years I have success with them, other years, not so much. But I am totally enjoying her’s, & promising myself Next Year! 🙂
This is where the expression “one fell swoop” comes from. Although it explains the literary origin of the term, it doesn’t tell us the actual origin. Thanks JT. We usually don’t post links, but we’ll make an exception for Shakespeare.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/one_fell_swoop