Time to say goodbye to the long days of summer and make the adjustment to the shorter days of fall. Clear sunny days and crisp clear nights lead to gorgeous leaf colors; we decorate with pumpkins in various hues and fragrant chrysanthemums in a variety of bright shades, as seen in the Longwood Gardens arrangements below. We begin to put our gardens to bed for the winter and start looking ahead to Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The winter months are spent making plans for next year’s garden, pouring through seed catalogs and dreaming of the first green shoots to break ground, crocuses, daffodils, etc. But before that, we’ll have snowdrops, hellebores and witch hazel to look forward to. The garden may be resting, but we are making plans!
