Hobbity Gardens

Well Hobbits one and all to me this is your season! Fall!  Apple picking, marshmellow roasting, raking leaves and them jumping into them! Don't tell me your too old! Your hobbits, you are children at heart unless your related to Bilbo's "unmentionable" relatives...

All the fall colors so remind me of Hobbits! The greens, golds, auburns, rusty reds... Now if you want a hobbity garden now is the time to go shopping and get some of those fall colored mums! They are great as they will bloom year after year for a long time...They along with some pumpkins on your table would look lovely! Put some mums and pumpkins on your front stoop! You could also go ahead and get some winter pansies and again look for your golds, reds, yellows...More hobbit colors.

If you want a permanent decor in your home go ahead and buy a fake pumpkin or two along with one of those little woven baskets apples come in. Buy some fake red apples too and put in basket. Your house will look very hobbity...Remember to pull out the warm colored throws to toss on end of your hobbity couches and back of your favorite reading chair.

Back to the yard you could also plant some winter kale next to the mums and pansies...Would look nice. Pansies should bloom, thrive through the winter, its usually the heat that kills them. Pansies are annuals. Mums bloom every fall and if you dead head them they may even bloom a second time that year...They are trying to go to seed and if they lose the flower before it seeds, it may try to reflower to try to make that seed. And don't worry when they seem to die back to the ground, thats normal. They will come back next year, promise! They are perennials. Also remember if you are on a budget you don't need to buy a big mum plant but go ahead and get the little one, IT WILL GROW and pretty quickly. If not this year do to shock of planting it will next year for sure... You know its wrong time of year but it just occurred to me that hobbits would also have at least one grape vine growing in their yard...What about you? Put a trellis, make your own and make it rustic then train the vine up and over for a beautiful setting in your yard. Maybe put a bench under it...wow!

All for now...

GG