It's My Birthday

Yum! Cut It last night before my birthday. From my daughter along with roses and gift cards to my favorite place. No family dinner until next week though because I don't think I'll be able to eat. The virus that started Friday is hanging on.

On to the yard to plant a boxwood.

Can't believe that this container was planted for spring and summer. Raccoons are vicious. Last night I watched a possum take a bath in the yard. Didn't know that raccoons had trashed the yard until I came to many broken overturned clay pots.

A few of the cyclamen blooms are still here.

The other flower bed did poorly this summer.

Powdery mildew on the peony. I usually cut it to the ground when it's like this.

Refilled and they've been waiting. I'll move it for the winter and locate it in a different spot. The shells from the seeds make a mess in the flower bed and attracts all the neighborhood wildlife.

Will pull the tomatoes on another day. There's one tomato with a large brown area. I've never had them rot since I've been planting them.

Nothing liked all the rain. The strawberries were doing well until our last bout of rain. The canna still have bulbs. I'll let them dry out and put in the basement.