A week or so ago we made another trip to the local garden store.  4 additions and a replacement came home with us – two lavender plants, and two more chocolate colored sedum, plus another ‘Blue Mouse Ears’ hosta.  It is my favorite time of year to plant, when I know with almost 100% certainty what survived the previous winter, and where I have gaps going into next year.

The only daylilies that are still blooming are the ‘Marque Moon’, and they are wrapping up.  That area needed some fall interest.  The two new sedum are just what that area needed.  They are babies now but will fill the space within the next few years.

The two lavender tucked under the weigelia, right along the path, where I can brush by the leaves and enjoy their scent.  I hope they survive the winter and return.  They are zone 4 so we’ll see.

In the progression, as the daylilies are winding down, the ‘Autumn Joy’ sedum are now taking the stage.  I know, they are kind of like ‘Stella D ‘Oro’ – everybody knows them – but I absolutely love them.  Over the years I  have propagated many new sedum from our original ‘Autumn Joy’ plants, which were a gift from my Dad.  I learned to do that at first because we had a fearless bee chasing Irish Terrier (Darby) who broke off stems in his efforts to eradicate our entry garden of those “buzzing menaces” – lol.  From those poor broken stems I rooted sedum plants that within three years formed a hedge!  That hedge got too big and I had to gift some, but now, years later, our garden boasts a fall tapestry of their beautiful form and changing color, woven in throughout the landscape.  Here’s their first efforts at color morphing this year.

The garden also has an abundance of seed pods.  The daylilies are full.  The ‘Purple D ‘Oro’ are crazy full this year.

I think I will have quite an April seedling project coming up.

And of course, the weather has been INCREDIBLE!  Cooler temperatures soothe my soul.  The crisp air renews me.

I already miss the “Wow!” of the new daylily blooms, but to everything there is a season.  There’s still a lot of garden left.