9/13/2025 Sat. Morning Fog

 It's Fall, morning fog already! 

Time To Load The Greenhouses

 With the fall crocuses up it's time

to start getting the plants ready for 

their winter home.

First I needed to remove the Voo Doo

plants so I could clean out the Greenhouse

so other plants could go in.

Stripping the leaves off is the first

task.  

Cutting the Brugmansias down so they

will fit in into the greenhouse.

The 3 B. Shorty's variegated were the first

to get cut.

After the huge B. Shorty's is pulled 

from the big cement pot, it was time

for Bones to take his place.

The next few days will be stripping

the A. Red Dragon then cutting 

them down so they will fit the 

greenhouse.

Got to love this plant &

it's blooms!

I got an email this am, why do 

you strip and cut back so drastically?  

It's about the space we have in the 

greenhouses we keep.  If you look

at the leaves you will notice the 

difference in the leaves.  Outside 

are much thicker compared to inside

which is much thinner.  Leaves will

grow back, trust me!   

Working hard on getting plants

ready to go inside.  

Still working on this tall 

one as the wind kicked up

and it wasn't fun holding

onto the ladder too.

Please do not copy us if you

don't understand the process 

or you can damage your plant.

Look at the reason you are 

seeing damage from your 

neglect.

More later. 

Seeing Red

 

9/7/2025 Before

 8:00 am / All cleaned and ready to

fill due to the smoke coming from a

local firepit.  Yes, there is a burn ban

since July, but who cares.

By 6:00 pm The Brug House was filling up 

fast.  Now you know why I'm so busy!

Sorry if you were looking for blooms this year

but I have to protect the collection!

Just 36 more to go!

Fall Crocus - 9/6/2025

 

Are coming up!  

Time To Start Fall Cleaning!

 This weekend was time to clean

both greenhouses and start getting 

them both ready for plants.  Stop

fertilizing plants!  If you were 

thinking of putting in a new lawn

ya best do it this week.  Same for

putting more grass seed out.

The leaves are already falling and

if you have trees you are responsible

for their cleanup and that goes for the 

street in front of your home.  We don't 

live in Portland where they request

their residents to dump them in the 

streets so they can be picked up.

If you use the Recycle for your leaves

they don't want pine needles for the

past few years.  

10/4/2025

Yesterday was cleanup day for the yard.

In which I took 1 bag of vac leaves

off the front yard.

Then went to do the north back yard 

where all the maple leaves were down

and took 1 1/2 bags off.  I have been 

picking up leaves daily after sweeping

our deck off daily for the past month.

Not only leaves but seedpods and 

evergreen trigs that have been 

dropping for the past year as the 

tree isn't getting proper care and 

browning. We have seen two of

these tree drop onto their house in

the past years.  These are the roots

that come close to our house.  Besides

the maple roots that lace the north 

side of our gardens.  It's to the point

we are loosing the plants in some

of our beds as the roots search for

water.

Fall leaves are just getting started.

We want to thank one of our neighbors

whom took out a tree this past week.

Why do we vac up our yard?  Is a 

question we get often.  Well it's simple

less bugs and critters is you keep your

yard clean.  We don't allow our leaves

to fly all over the neighborhood for 

others to pickup!

Many of you know I used to blow out 

the circle but do not do so anymore.

Just the roadway in front of our property

is all that is done.

The last time the street sweeper came 

though, there was such a huge cloud 

of dirt blowing across the circle.  I 

really felt sorry for the driver.  They 

know I'm not cleaning up anymore.

We kept the video of the cleaner and

all the dirt that went flying!

Clematis Fall Blooms

 They are starting to bloom after

being cut back a month and half 

ago!

I love to see clematis bloom in the 

fall!