Flames of Scarlet and Gold Frequently seen on magazine covers and calendars in fall, Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) is the quintessential tree of autumn with its brilliant scarlet, tangerine, and topaz foliage. It’s the first shade tree to color, starting as early as late September, continuing through the end of October. A majestic tree, it [...]
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Astounding Asters
Astounding Asters I have way too many asters—Smooth Blue, New England, Aromatic, and Heath in my prairie gardens and Short’s and Side-flowering in my savanna gardens—that is, until September. Now I’m emerged in joyful aster exuberance, exultation, abundance, generosity, verdancy, lushness, luxuriating in asters, intoxicated with asters…well. look for yourselves: I’ve been so busy [...]
Fiery Fall Foliage
“I planted white acorns… The white oak is the noblest tree in Illinois. It will live to be a thousand years old on soil best fitted for it.” Jens Jensen Kames and Kettles Fiery Fall Foliage First Week in November The Chicago area landscape was formed by ice. As the Wisconsin glacier receded about 13,000 [...]
Christmas Card
And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring. Samuel Taylor Coleridge LOVE, JOY AND PEACE MERRY CHRISTMAS PAT HILL
My House in Autumn
Fall may seem an odd time to begin a blog about gardening, but fall is in many ways the best time to start or renew a garden. The soil is mellow, the weather is temperate, and in autumn plants put all their energy into root growth rather than top growth as they do in spring. [...]
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Wild Ones: Northern Kane County Chapter
SNOWFALL
February 12, 2013 • Categories: Celebrate Winter, Pat's Comments • by PatHill
The Snow-Storm Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farm-house at the garden’s end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier’s feet Delayed, all friends shut out, [...]
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