September is drawing to a close. It has decorated nature with bright colors—golden birches, yellow maples, red rowan berries. And the garden plot is bursting with vibrant blossoms.
The vegetable and apple harvest has been collected. All that remains in the garden are cabbage and three hot pepper plants.
The entire garden was sown with green manure - white mustard and phacelia.
In the large greenhouse, the last tomatoes, both ripe and green, were collected.
Tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers are also growing in the small one.
There is no longer any care for them; sometimes my husband waters them in the greenhouse.
The cucumbers keep growing and growing, even the leaves have turned yellow and withered, but still young cucumbers, crisp and juicy, are forming on the vines.
By the end of the season, powdery mildew even appeared; I’ve never seen it on cucumbers.
And the tomatoes are still growing, ripening, and even large tomatoes have formed on the tops of the bushes.
We harvested the main pepper crop at the end of August, but didn't pull up the bushes. They bloomed profusely again, bearing fruit and even starting to turn red. Surprisingly, the buds haven't fallen off, whereas they used to in the summer.
The flower beds are full of vibrant blooms: dahlias, zinnias, asters, marigolds, and rudbeckias delight with their colors.
They are already fading, drying up, branches are breaking, bushes are falling apart.
Every evening I tidy up the flowerbeds—cutting off broken branches, dried ones, and faded ones. I remove weeds and loosen the soil. Later, I'll add compost under the perennials to protect them from freezing.
I collected seeds of marigolds, asters, sweet peas, keeled chrysanthemums, and poppies.
The last roses are opening their buds. They've had a tough time this year, with frequent rains and cool nights taking their toll—dark spots have appeared on the leaves and buds.
The geranium bushes have grown and are blooming profusely.
From the geranium, I broke off several shoots and placed them in water to allow them to take root.
I'll repot them and take them home. I usually dug up the geraniums in the fall, but over the summer they've grown into huge bushes, requiring larger pots. There's no room at home; all the windowsills are filled with houseplants. So I decided not to dig them up, even though it's a shame they'll freeze.
I did the same with the coleus - nettle, it grows in a large pot, I cut off several tops, as soon as the roots appear, I will replant and take it home.
The autumn flowers, the October flowers, are in full bloom. This year they began blooming in early September, which means they can be renamed September flowers, as we called them in Kazakhstan.
The chrysanthemums have blossomed, even those sown from seeds have bloomed - white, light yellow, small flowers similar to chamomile.
Another chrysanthemum is about to open its red buds.
The leaves of the maiden grapes are beginning to turn red.
Around the dachas there are golden birches and red rowan trees. The neighbors' plum trees have turned yellow.
Almost all the trees in our area have green foliage, only the viburnum has turned copper-crimson and the spirea has turned pink.
A surprise in the flower beds
In the spring, my perennial poppy was almost gone; there were only a few sickly leaves left on the bush. I dug it up and replanted it, but it didn't take root. Then, in early September, I discovered three poppy bushes had started growing again in the old spot. This was a surprise to me; I thought I was missing my beautiful poppy.
Some flowers unexpectedly re-bloomed. I was surprised to find a primrose in bloom; the young seedling had confused its blooming period and bloomed at the end of September.
The Turkish carnation has blossomed.
Viburnum buldenezh, which bloomed at the end of May, has opened several buds.
Small white star-shaped flowers appeared on the young branches of clematis.
In the drying cosmos thickets I discovered a blooming poppy.
The sedum bloomed again.
All summer long, individual iris flowers were appearing, and at the end of September I found a blooming iris.
The daylily has also thrown out a flower stalk and is trying to open a bud.
Of course, this unscheduled flowering is not as lush as in summer, but it is very nice to receive a spring greeting at the end of September.