After all the rain this fall, late autumn has settled in to pleasant dry weather. Mornings flirt with the low 30s but the days are warm and sunny. Normally I would have brought the pots into the garage and cut back some things by now, but it's been too nice and there is no hard freeze forecast yet.
One of the more successful things I've done is to convert the garden under the aspens into a more woodland / shrub planting, and the redtwig dogwoods I planted have done really well.
They have grown fast in just three years. In summer they are just a quiet filler below the aspens, but of course the red stems are the show.
