Today it was 40° fahrenheit by 9am in our area so I got going right away on the fall clean-up.  All of the daylilies are now cut back.  I included the daylilies out back – the new ‘Hush Little Baby’ daylilies, the ‘Purple D’Oro’ daylilies, the last ‘Just Plum Happy’ daylily and the red daylilies, along with the ‘Marque Moon’ daylilies out front.

Sad to see them all go, but they were ready.

Also sadly, either the wind or some bird or squirrel broke off the last daylily buds I had found a week or so ago.  I’ll try putting them in water, but I doubt they will bloom.  But, on a more cheerful note, I did find some seed pods from Dad’s hostas that I saved as well.

I also trimmed two of the three ninebarks, the weigelia, and the alpine currant.

Then I bagged it all up and got it over to compost.

All that clean-up means that next weekend all I have on the schedule is the remaining hostas, two clematis, and one ninebark.  Sad to wrap up, but awesome that things are on schedule.

I still haven’t decided if I will cut back the sedum.  They may stay.  More on that in another post.

Now I can relax.  It’s too windy to use the little fire pit tonight, so I probably won’t bother getting propane, and there’s a lot of activity (birds, squirrels) in the small pine tree, so I will rake the seeds later in the day or tomorrow.

(Check out the dark-eyed junko on the ground in the two pics above. )

One of our white squirrels stopped by while I was getting lunch ready.  I tried to get a pic but she was being camera shy today.

All in all, it was a good morning.  Now I deserve a cup of coffee and a good book 😍