Maintaining and manicuring the yard and gardens in September will enable you to have a beautiful landscape throughout the cold season.
Today my husband and I took advantage of the good weather and spent the morning outdoors in they yard. We worked together to create a lovely landscape and cleaned up the patio by getting the firepit ready for sitting by the fire on cool fall nights.
We both worked at cleaning up the sand set flagstone patio, I removed the weeds that were growing between the stone and husband put down new drainage rock around the firepit. When the patio was completed I moved on to my next garden project.
I dead headed all of the spent flowers, trimmed back the coneflowers and zinnia that started to turn brown from those few nights of low 40's temperature. Harvested the seeds by putting seeds in Ziploc bag and then covered the garden bed with cedar mulch.
When all of the seeds were harvested I moved on to trimming back the grass garden because they were overgrown and covered the garden path. There was enough time to spot check the irises and to pull the weeds and grass that was growing in the bed.
While I worked on the gardens my husband cut the grass and used the blower to remove the leaves from patios, paths and driveway. It was a great day to work in the garden, Husband and I accomplished so much and our September yard and garden looks beautiful.
Here are some photographs of my gardens, patio paths.
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| End of season shade garden |
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| September blooms of Sweet Autumn Clematis |
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| Updated patio and firepit for Fall usage, firepit and patio designed by Sgolis |
