Saturday

It's that time in my zone to take house plants indoors. Bird of Paradise is now in it's new home for winter in my daughter's bedroom. Now the multipurpose room. Sansevieria, philodendron, rick rack cactus, a begonia in bloom, a hoya, and the other plants were sprayed to hopefully prevent insects from hitchhiking indoors. A rabbits foot fern, dracena, pothos, and 3 pelargoniums are waiting to come inside. The pelargoniums will go in the kitchen window seal and hopefully continue to bloom during the winter. Time to collect some seeds. My lantana has small dark berries. Possibly future seedlings for next season. This would be the first time trying to grow it. Hoped my hyacinths would have arrived by now so I can start forcing them. I do have 10 paper whites. Maybe I'll start them.

My pansies aren't doing well. Probably because I squeezed them in.

Can't wait to see my hollyhock in the spring. I believe they're biannual and will hopefully self sow seeds.

Yarrow

The weather hasn't killed the worms on the salvia. Didn't disturb it.

Lambs ear didn't thrive this season. Got some type of dot like disease that started in spring and lasted all season.

Didn't pull up the root of nicotiana and it's started to regrow but frost will get it. I'll start more from seeds again this winter. Too large of a seedling to overwinter and they are so easy to start from seeds.

Blooms are done on the mums. I'll plant some perennials brought from the discount rack in their place. They'll have all winter to keep growing roots underground .

Going to let the dark berries get a little more dry before I pull them and hope birds don't get to them first.

Will attempt to overwinter the coleus and dichondra silver falls. No fall planting for this container. The plants are still thriving and I hate to pull them but will soon before frost.

Dichondra

Moved a lot of the plant indoors from the sunporch which is unheated and gets as cold as being outdoors in winter.

For the backyard birds for Christmas. Surprised it came so fast in the mail in only 2 days.

I use this in the soil before taking houseplants back indoors and spray with Raid House and Garden although not organic. 

Hope the pumpkins won't be squirrel food.