Brr. That cold snap is turning into a day of snow. This morning I looked out the back window into the garden and noticed what looked like white blooms on the anemone.

Upon closer inspection, the white “blooms” were the seedheads of the plant. This is the first year the anemone has been on the Lot, so I didn’t know that about this plant.

The first hard freeze has come and gone. The random volunteer gourd plant growing from the house bed has been zapped.

As well as the handful of begonias I was gifted this spring.

And the hostas in both Loki’s bed and the gate bed.

The maiden hair fern and Japanese painted fern both were bitten by the frost as well.

We feel the Lot is ready for the weather cooling and the plants (at least above ground) shutting down. Everything is put to bed for winter to arrive.