Took this photo of my red chard before the recent freeze. I’m afraid to go out there and see what’s left of it..

Red chard shows off its jewel colors in my garden earlier this week

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I have a couple of thornless boysenberry plants. Their leaves are doing the fall showoff thing.

Boysenberry leaves color up for fall

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Yesterday I went outside to bring in all the plants that needed to come in ahead of the arctic weather we’re having right now, and took a few minutes to enjoy the bright sunshine and the last, last flowers blooming.

Small magenta/red and purple hardy fuchsia flowers still blooming in mid-November.

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Some pretty pink dahlias in my backyard, getting wet.

Pink dahlias with white tips, drenched in the rain

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Possibly the last rose of summer, this coral beauty from my mid-October garden makes me happy.

Coral pink Camelot rose, in mid-October in Seattle

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Since it was going to rain all week, I just went out and got all the flowers I could.

Garden roses and dahlias in a bouquet

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This is my little carniverous Cape Sundew (drosera capensis) plant that I got to help with fruit flies in my kitchen. The plant is about as wide as my hand, and the flower stem is almost a foot tall! I don’t know that it traps all that many fruit flies, but it’s cute, and I was thrilled when it recently began to flower. As instructed, I keep the saucer half filled with water, in part sun, and it seems to be happy. Bonus: TWO photos this post!

Cape Sundew (drosera capensis) on my windowsill with a few tiny fruit flies in its feathery leaves. The flower stem is at upper right.

Tiny pink Cape Sundew flowers, each less than half an inch (1 cm) on a stem about 12″ tall.  Only one flower blooms at a time.

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Hydrangeas are some of my top fave flowers, blooming all summer and even looking good into the fall.

Hydrangea blooms with fall color

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Dahlias are loving the long, warm summer that Seattle is enjoying so much this year.

Red-and-yellow and purple dahlias in early fall sunshine

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This is a close up of a cotoneaster (ka-tone-ee-AST-er) shrub in our yard, beloved by birds and photographers alike. The berries are small, about the size of a pea, and they adorn the arching branches in fall and winter. I was amazed to learn its pronunciation, by the way. I was sure it would be something like cotton-Easter. But no.

Bright red cotoneaster berries add color and bird food to a backyard

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