Saying Goodbye to the Garden

I was taking down the Halloween decorations, and cleaning up the rest of my pots, and I noticed a few annuals and perennials that even after a few heavy frosts, still looked pretty good. Its amazing how some annuals and perennials will tolerate cold temperatures way better then some others.

Generally ones that look good after frost now, are also good candidates for planting early in the Spring. (Yes I am looking forward to Spring already)

The Osteospermun (Sunscape Daisy) shown in the picture was fine. I've tried to get a few growers to produce these in the fall since they outlast Mums by a long shot, but Mums are such a traditional plant, the grower couldn't sell enough of the Sunscapes in the fall to make it worthwhile.

Lobelia still looks pretty good.

The Bouvardia which is a tubular orange flower survived, but the orange bonfire begonia didn't.

The Perennial Gailardia was also still blooming, and it handled the frost very well.