Amelia Bellamy-Royds Oct 13

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends.
Appreciative acknowledgements to all you Americans who are recognizing a Truth & Reconciliation Day by another name.

It is still rather chilly today, <5°C here in Edmonton (certainly compared to a few days last week that hit 23°C!) but the sun is back out & the autumn colours are on full display.

The cotoneaster hedge in particular is glowing in flame colours, and it's overall pleasant enough that I don't mind the woodsmoke smell from someone's backyard firepit. (Although I did double check the air quality maps to confirm the smoke was local & temporary.)

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I haven't really been posting garden photos this summer. (Maybe I should post them in the middle of winter for inspiration? Although I haven't even been taking a lot, either!) But here are some end-of-summer shots.

These are before-and-after frost views of one of the front gardens, Oct 4 vs Oct 13. Nasturtiums mostly gone now, but still a few sheltered survivors. The other main change (beyond the addition of fallen leaves) is that I dug up the carrots that had grown from seeds of ones I planted last year for flowers. I'd lost a lot of plants in this garden the previous winter so there are a number of new ones last year, including that pink bayberry bush. The bare rocks (both pics) are where I tore back a lot of the Lamium maculatum (Orchid frost nettles, visible with the white-splashed leaves in the backdrop to that bright orange nasturium) that were completely taking over.

#garden #YEGgarden

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And here's some shots of the back flower garden, still with lots of colour today from frost-hardy petunias, calendulas, and snapdragons, plus the drying petals of yarrow and Echinacea (at the back from this angle).

That little copper-coloured sunflower was a volunteer growing in a tomato pot. I'm glad I never plucked it out!