Our Missouri Yard – November 2022
/When I arrived home from my late October trip to Carrollton, TX, one of the red maples in our front yard had already dropped its leaves and the wind had blown them away. The other tree still held a few leaves but most of them were on the grass. The arrangements of the leaves on the grass were more interesting than the scraggly ones still on the tree!
I took pictures of the pokeweed fruits (the plants were in inconspicuous places in my back yard so I had let them grow). The fruits that were ripe before the frost (purple, rounded, and plump) are probably still edible by the birds but the immature fruits probably will not be eaten; I am leaving the plants with their wilted leaves standing…to see if that is what happens.
The roses that were blooming before the frost still had some color…although the draped petals are fading and brittle. The new leaves are red before they turn green, and they seem to have survived the frost just fine.
I’m looking forward to the changes coming as the days shorten and the weather is colder!
