“Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden … it is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It happened!
The cold has descended! Killing everything. Next week I will start digging my tropical plants and storing them for the winter. I have so many tubers of Cannas I really don’t know what I’m going to do with them, but I guess I will figure it out.
Most of everything I will leave as seed heads for the birds, it helps them and it helps my pocket book.
The trees and bushes should really start to color up now. It always takes a good hard freeze to start to see color on them.
In three weeks we hope to start the corn harvest.
We are moving marching forward to winter, a steady step-by-step now.
Taking one day at a time, your friend,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
you sure did get ‘colded’. 🙂
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Although you got good pictures of the frost on your flowers and ground, I hope we don’t see that for a while. We’re going to be very busy for the next few weeks trying to stay ahead of the leaves on the ground.
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Its so sad to see the petunias wilted. They have to be one of my top ten flowers. I like to leave most everything to reseed. We have been flirting with the freezing mark.
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The frosting is actually quite beautiful…at first.
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Our garden got frosted Friday night and then it got everything last night. Sad
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I prolonged mine by covering all my plants then we have had 50’s to 80’s so the rains came and watered today but I fear soon I will have lots to do as you have damn I hate winter 😦
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Sad to see it go, but it does make for some beautiful pictures 🙂
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It’s tough to trade the summer plants for the colors… I’m always surprised when anyone quotes Nathaniel Hawthorne… he would have written that just a mile or two away from here and I feel like he’s my neighbor or a member of the family, lol.
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Oh no! The first frost is alway so sad, despite its beauty. I do the same thing as you and leave some plants to seed for the birds. I’ve got 3 foot tall Cosmos that are looking terrible, but the finches love the seeds so much.
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I feel the same when the first frost hits. I has came this early in SW IN but not this year.I am currently reading some books written by the first pioneer women who . Very interesting.
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Poor petunias with their heads hanging down. The seasonal change came early on the Colorado Farm!
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I kind of hated to “Like” this post. It’s hard to see the flowers die. At least the colorful trees will fill in for color, soon.
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What a shame, your garden has been looking so wonderful… petunias just can’t take it can they? next year will be upon you before you can count, time flies so fast these days….
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