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Rain today, rain yesterday, and rain the day before that😒. Predictions of well below freezing tonight so who knows, maybe even a little snow (areas near me have already had it). And then it's supposed to go up to almost 20°C by Monday???
The municipal leaf/yard waste collection ends next week and needless to say I haven't been raking, but then most of the leaves are still on the trees....
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It's been a mild fall here and only a few overnight frosts and it's after the middle of October. We are may have a little snow on the weekend but it won't stay yet.
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We've had a mild fall too. But had a hard frost last night and supposed to have more over next 5 days.
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Wondering if planting Crysanthemums will get rid of mosquitoes?
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We had a little snow, not that unusual right at Halloween but its about a week early.
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Very mild fall here too! Got up to nearly 80 today. We are seeing leaf colors that we don't usually see because snow comes earlier causing leaves to drop. The reds and purples are amazing! We Always get lots of yellows!
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It's crazy mild here for early November but that's okay by me, I figure we're just getting the weather we were cheated out of in September and October. I was out cleaning my eavestrough wearing just a T shirt (er.. and pants, I mean no coat🤣), and I got the leaves that have fallen (about 90%) all shredded and spread over my gardens. 🍂🍁
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Eavestrough?

Rain gutter?
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Yes, you Americans call them gutters.
It drives me crazy that gutter is slowly creeping into use in advertising Canada, and that spell check tried to tell me that eavestrough wasn't a word.

(And it makes me even crazier when my great nephew insists the alphabet ends with zee😠. Nuh-uh.... it's ZED!!!)
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I still have some dahlias, cannas, amaryllis and a few other things out in my little garden shed and they are predicting overnight lows of- 8°C (17.6°F).....
What do you all think, must I bring everything in now? (the longer I can put it off the better because I don't really have a cold room in my basement)
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cw - I would take them in. Do you have a cold window sill for storage?

Full on snow here now. Everything is getting buried in it including my front driveway. Snow Angels -where are you?
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That's what I figured Golden, but I was hoping someone would tell me they'd be OK 🤣.
I do have a slightly cooler basement store room where I keep my potatoes, onions etc. I've wintered over stuff before but they tend to sprout by March, which is much too early.
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Well, I can tell you...
Cannas and amaryllis would be lovely indoors for Easter.
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One of my Christmas cactus is early blooming this year. It has 23 buds starting to break open. I can't see buds on my other two plants.
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Mine too Bridget! The early ones were already setting buds when I brought them inside and are in full bloom now (yes, I have too many of them), the big surprise is that my mom's bushel sized one that usually blooms around Easter (if at all) has buds too :)
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Bridget my Christmas cactus has 2 blooms on it, but its pretty small!
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My Christmas cactus has 23 flower buds!
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I felt good about my with 23 blooms. took a pic and sent to my GF. She sent back a pic of one she got from Mom. I was covered in blooms about 40. I've never seen one with that many blooms. Her mother was a master gardener. Had a yard full of beautiful plants and a sunporch full too. That will never be me.
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Bridget, can you share the picture by making it your avatar? I would love to see it.

Thank you in advance :-)
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ITRR, The pic I took to email looks like a green blob as avatar. I'll try again tomorrow when I have better light on my sunporch.
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Thank you Bridget!

I have a great picture of a Palo Verde tree in full bloom and it can't be posted here, just doesn't work, so I have experience with that :-)
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😉

"You can't plant flowers
🌸🌸🌸🍀🍀🍀🌸🌸🌸
if you haven't botany."
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So…untypical winter this year. Usually I can count on snapdragons and pansies to bloom all winter despite freezes and even the dianthus survive and bloom during the warmer times. We had a freeze that killed all, except a few pansies, which are increasingly becoming deer snacks. The yard is barren and bloom less, I feel like I’m in the north and defeated by winter! Oh well, taking tulip bulbs out of the fridge this weekend to plant, they’ve been enjoying winter there, time to move into the ground so they can show off in late March
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We are having a January thaw that never ended, the temperatures are still mostly above freezing and are predicted to remain that way for at least the next week.... definitely weird weather.
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Here we have summer and winter plants blooming at the same time! They don’t know what to do.
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My grandfather was a wonderful gardener. He grew beautiful flowers and vegetables too.

My grandmother would never have done any work in the garden. She made fabulous fig preserves from their fig tree.

The neighbors had a pecan tree and they would trade the fig preserves for pecan pies! Nice deal!
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There is sun today.
So happy to have paperwhite narcissus blooming along the driveway.
These just pop up yearly, more each time. I think the squirrels may spread the bulbs. Or maybe it just grows and spreads that way.

With all the recent rains, people are saying that the poppies will be abundant this year.
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I loved seeing the poppies when I vacationed in California! California is a beautiful state with the best weather.
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I felt a need to dig in dirt. I planted a big pot of daffodils in the sun room.
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I kept thinking I should cut back my Prairie Coneflowers. Now I am very happy I didn't the neighborhood birds are having quite the feast!
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