We had a deluge again last night and all the plant trays filled up with water again. To prevent any root rot or other problems in the coming weeks/months I moved all the potted plants out of trays today. It took a few hours, but it was obvious that it was good timing. All of them were soaking wet.

I took a few photos of some of the trees that were showing particularly nice autumn color.

Boy, there are a lot of seedlings–both trees and shrubs for tonsai and native plants for the garden and giveaways.

I took a few minutes to photograph some other autumn colors around the garden, too.

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I found these seedlings next to the “Sweetheard” Erodium plants. I’m curious if they’ll come true from seed. There are a lot of them.

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I cleared my schedule today to move the Clivia plants and Cymbidiums into the greenhouse. The weather is getting cold fast and I’ll be traveling the next two weekends so it had to be today.

In an effort to make up for spring and summer neglect, I sprinkled organic plant food on these plants about a month ago just ahead of the first autumn rains. Today, as I cleaned them up and topped up their potting soil, I watered each pot well with Orchid Love organic (smelly) orchid food–a capful to a two-gallon watering can full of rainwater. My hope is that the food will help the plants set lots of buds for next spring. It might be too late, though. Most of the plants looked pretty healthy and happy.

I stuffed them all into the greenhouse and did a little clean-up in there. The patio plants need to come in, as well–I’m hoping to have time to do that tomorrow.

There were a few other things to photograph around the greenhouse and yard today.

Another Colchicum showing off.