Fall Porch

Several months ago I blogged about getting my flower beds ready for spring planting.  Suddenly it’s fall and I am loving how things have grown and flowered in some of my beds.  The remarkable thing about it is that they have been so neglected for the past 2 1/2 months.  I haven’t been able to trim, weed or work in my beds due to all the surgeries so everything has been left to either thrive or die.  Some of my flowers have bloomed and died but many have been flourishing.  My sweet potato vine that I planted for filler has absolutely gone wild.  It’s grown all through the beds and up onto the porch.  Coach has bundled it up and thrown it back into the beds and onto the yard and yet it continues to grow up and onto the porch.

The sun has returned to Western Oklahoma today so I grabbed my camera this morning and headed out to snap a few shots of my beds.  To see where we started you can look here.  Now for the reveal……………..

A front view of my house:    

Shrubs need trimmed and the trim on the house really need painted.  Maybe I’ll tackle that next spring.

The flower bed by my back patio.  Look at all those strawberry plants behind my little angle statue.  Next year should be a good year for fruit.      

I wish I could figure out a way to hide my air conditioning unit and all that electrical stuff and yet allow access to it in case it needs worked on.  Any suggestions?  The blue pot was full of tomatoes but they have been long gone.  I love this porch in the mornings but in the evening it is generally too hot out here to enjoy.    We have talked about enclosing the porch for years but just never could agree on what we want to do with it.  I would like to put my office in the south end and make the north end a sitting area.  That would require Coach to build me a deck or patio outside for our huge outdoor dining table.  Coach just wants to enclose it and leave the table and swing out there.  I’m thinking “living area”  and he’s thinking “enclosed porch”.  Thus there is a stand off at our house so nothing gets done.

Then we finally get to my favorite part.  I bought this little chair at a garage sale a few years ago and it has been several different colors.  This year I painted it lime green.  Along with my bright yellow bench it really brightens up my front porch.

The sweet potato vine has grown through the chair and through the table legs behind the flower pot.  The leaves are huge and beautiful.  I love the pumpkins and the pink mums.  The mums have kind of been choked out but still managed to stick their little heads up and bloom.  The crab grass flourished too but I did manage to get some of it out before I had to quit working in the beds.

My favorite season is Spring because of the promise of new life but I also LOVE fall and all the colors that it brings.    I hope that each of you are enjoying the beautiful fall colors and having a wonderful weekend!