November

I hope you've been cutting flowers from your garden! If you have you're likely seeing second and third rounds of roses, cosmos, even foxgloves and delphinium. If you haven't things may be tipping over and going to seed and that's great too! A yard that's a bit wild and messy is a treat for birds and pollinators and the flowers are doing the work of seeding next years flowers for you. I'm a big advocate of low maintenance gardening; if you don't get to the pre-emptive deadheading of cutting flowers in their prime, go ahead and leave them. Gardening is supposed to be an enjoyable pastime not yet another mile long to-do list;go easy on yourself! So many people I know with fantastic yards are always looking at it from the perspective of what needs to be done. This is another reason I encourage foraging for flowers and foliage to make arrangements in your yard because it shifts how you perceive the actual abundance you have right in front of you. Even as we close out the season there is still so much to gather and use. Queen ann's lace, clematis seed pods, rosehips AND roses, amaranth, Hawthorne berries and artichoke leaves are going for a second round. The local chrysanthemums are STUNNING right now! I hope you are getting out there to play despite the soggy weather we are having around here; I know I have been, so much to be grateful for!