Gardening is Fun?!??!!

Well it is almost the middle of September and we have had 1/4" or 8mm of rain this month. In august we had a total of 1" or 25mm of rain for the whole month. I find it is terribly depressing to go out and see all the leaves on the trees and shrubs curling up and blowing off the stems and branches. Taking pictures of our back yard has also been non existent. There is nothing very exciting to want to preserve on the film. The bright spot is that many perennials will return next spring! Yes, I sure hope they do. In the meantime I will chop off the dried up stems and compost them, and wait patiently for next spring to revive them once again. I do have a plan that I will read a book called "Dry Land Gardening" by Jennifer Bennett again this winter. There will definitely be some changes made in these gardens. I will be searching out the family of Sedums and plant more of those for sure.