Arriving home after being away for six days at The 12th Gathering was like being away a whole season.
It was the beginning of fall when we left, but while we were gone the trees changed colors and leaves had dropped to the ground, starting that lovely patchwork carpet they create every year.
When we drove into the parking lot of The Gathering, the rain stopped and the weather became the most perfect weather possible for a gathering. Everyday was perfection!
Thankfully, this beautiful weather has continued long enough to allow me to plant my 100 yearly crocuses without being cold!
I plant them in little path of grass in the front yard that also hosts the Curley Hazel bush.
Last year I planted 100 on one end of the patch, and this year another 100 on the other. It will be a few more years and hundreds more crocuses before I actually fill in the patch!
This little patch is in honor of our dad. He used to do this, plant new crocuses every year in the grass. I often wonder if they are still there delighting someone else.
The cool thing about crocuses is that they bloom early and by the time the grass has to be mowed, their foliage is long gone, or ready to be cut.
I’ve included pictures of the whole garden, including one of Del and I sitting on our garden bench after returning home. Thanks Jet for taking it!
Notice the herbs that soon will have to be harvested, as frost can not be that far away!
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What a nice treat to see that there was a new post on here I hadn’t read yet! So I guess I’m a little late, because you wrote this a couple of weeks ago and there is snow on the ground right now, but that is so neat that you plant crocuses every year in honor of Grandpa. In our neighborhood, there are a few homes that have Glory of the Snow planted in their lawns and it looks so pretty in spring. Next autumn I think I’ll do a little of both! Your garden pictures are so pretty, too. I can’t believe how big your basil was!
I was just thinking today that my garden blog needs an update .. and was is the operative word for the basil – frost the last two nights! Thank you Lara!