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OFFICIALLY AUTUMN

It is a week until the equinox but I have jumped the gun.

Today I put down fertilizer on the roses and potted plants.

We don't encourage them to grow in the hot summer so I have not fed them since, maybe, May.

Soon I will be getting geraniums for the pots.

I lost one whole pot to the heat. Usually the plants will perrenialize and come back another season. Only one has done it so far.

I also cut down the Mexican bird of paradise the other day. It had gotten all rangy and out of control.

It will soon go into hibernation anyway. They 'die' back to the hard stems and then come back again in late May or June.

The Mexican bird is not to be confused with the bird that everyone buys in florist shops. We have some of those too but they are likely to flower most anytime. It is hard to figure out.