Pots and things in the back garden in September

These are the marguerites in a pink pot in front of the back garage. In the Spring, this pot holds tulips.. 

The fuschias are in a cedar box on the deck and are looking pretty good now.  I hope I can over-winter them.  I have another one beside the garage that is a perennial, that I hope grows into a small bush.

This is a shot of the dry stream that is in the shade garden under the deck.  The moss and ferns are looking very good in this area.  The moss garden needs to weeded, though. 

These are the stepping stones that lead into the back garden area from the patio area.  The sicilian mint is filling in nicely around the cement stepping stones.  It has a wonderful fragrance when stepped on.  You can see the large leaves of the fig tree and the fine seed heads of the fennel at the top opf the photo.  There are other little rockery plants growing beside the stones. 

 The gaillardia is growing in the strawberry jar that sits in the small rockery beside the vegetable garden at the back.  The stepping stones from above lead to this area in the back garden.  This stone path also branches off to the right to the Japanese garden area and the pond.

Tiny Butterfly

A few older photos from my garden. Today's shot is this tiny butterfly. I think I will load these to Flickr and then perhaps see about making my group. Should be fun.

I managed to get the big patio glass door cleaned today, as well as the big window in the dining room. So, now I just need to do the living room and the bathroom mirrors. I must keep telling myself that it IS so much nicer when its cleaned up.

I fixed the plum plucker but I had terrible results with the bigger basket. Hmmm, more practise needed, I guess. I brought in a dozen plums with 6 to the rum pot and the rest we ate. I searched rum pot with google and found that it should 'work' or ferment. So, the bubbles on mine are right! Adding sugar is good too. Amazing that mine worked last year and tasted good.

I must dump out all the old plum sauce I have as it is probably a couple of years old and past its best before date. I shall try and get the new stuff done, next week, as Cyrs are going to be here this week end. This should be fun too. And I get to see the new old car even though it is not quite road worthy yet.