Autumn 2025

It took until early November for us to see any autumn color, possibly because of the little rain that we had in August and September. Once the leaves starting turning, we had a storm that stripped many of the trees, so what color we had only lasted about ten days or so.

Wild Flowers and Chaos Gardening

Last summer, one of my students described how she sometimes practices chaos gardening, which means she simply throws seeds onto the ground and waits to see what happens. I did the same halfway through the summer by adding some wild flower seeds to two pots, and I have been pleasantly surprised at the results. Even though it is now November, one pot is still producing flowers. I brought in both pots during the two or three days the morning temperatures fell below freezing. Our temperatures have since rebounded. The flowers, however, are hard to photograph because they move so easily in the wind.