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» Cottage_Garden - The hunt is on! If you've had frost in your garden, what still
The hunt is on! If you've had frost in your garden, what still looks good? Barbara MartinEco-Gardens Editor
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» Barb_Dorsett - *If* I've had frost? We had snow flurries yesterday! If we fol
*If* I've had frost? We had snow flurries yesterday! If we follow your advice, we should have good looking garden bones, at least.The red twig dogwoods are starting to show their stuff but the curly red twig willows are a disappointment...again. Groundcovers seem unaffected by the recent weather, for the most part. I'm glad I finally got rid of that goutweed because it always collapsed during the first frost of the season. Larkspur seedlings are romping through my mess and columbines look comfortable.
Barb in Southern Indiana Midwest Gardener
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» Deb_TT - So far we are frost free. I still have nasturtiums 'Alaska' vari
So far we are frost free. I still have nasturtiums 'Alaska' variety blooming! They go into a pile of mush when the first frost happens. My Escallonia shrub is bursting open in bloom though and lots of other plants are blooming with the falling leaves, I find it a wonderful picture!Our frost date is November 1 and we came close to frost last week. I am not complaining! I guess I should post after our first frost. 
Debra Teachout-Teashon
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» Ecwrite - Frost... I have a vague recollection of what that is... the loo
Frost... I have a vague recollection of what that is... the look someone gives you when you got the part and they didn't.ec from Hollywood, Zone 23
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» Cottage_Garden - Hello Hollywood! No! Frost is something people do to their hair
Hello Hollywood! No! Frost is something people do to their hair when it starts to change color all on its own!
Barbara Martin
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» Carol Wallace - I'm not doing it to my hair. My hair is doing it without my help
I'm not doing it to my hair. My hair is doing it without my help.In my garden, we still have roses, and chrysanthemums, and a few of the nicotiana are still going. Foliage plants like heuchera and hakonochloa still add color, and of course the fall foliage still brings lots of color. Many of my heaths and heathers are either flowering now or in bud. The frost won't bother them at all. The twigs are beginning to color brightly on the red-twigged dogwoods, and the conifers are taking on their winter color -- my junipers are slowly turning the mauve-y purple that is their seasonal surprise, and the gold conifers are really starting to come into their own. Carol (virtually gardening)
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» Cottage_Garden - The ornamental grasses are blooming big time here. They are col
The ornamental grasses are blooming big time here. They are coloring up nicely, too. The crabapples (Adams, Sugar Tyme and Harvest Gold) are gorgeous, the barberries look like little RedHot candies, and the mimosa tree seedpods look like giant-sized crinkle-cut French fries! We had another serious frost last night, somehow there is one lonely little impatiens flower left -- hot pink, of course!Barbara Martin
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