By Mary Jo Baur
Before you say "nothing," take a careful look around your garden. I still have a few mums, asters, and Joe Pye-Weed in bloom, also a few flowers of gaillardia, commonly called blanket flower with its bright red and yellow cheering up one part of my yard. I have a container on my steps that is filled with orange celosia and a type of black-eyed Susan, a bunch of reddish grass, ornamental kale and a creeping filler plant that I can't identify; but the whole combination still looks good after more than a month out there. And surprisingly, there are a few annuals planted in the ground that are still blossoming. So we haven't yet had a killing frost, but the leaves on most maples have been blown down. In general, I don't think this fall had particularly brilliant color in the trees. And let's hope the weathermen are wrong about that dusting of snow tomorrow night.
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