Home Garden Companion

Ilona's Garden Journal

  • Plant Library On The Journal
  • Garden chores
    • Do as I say
  • Ilona’s Garden Home
    • Old House Blog
  • Privacy Policy
Home » Giving You the Update

Uncategorized

Giving You the Update

Here it is -November! Ever since 2003 when my father was hospitalized and then died, my ability to pay attention to the garden has been in regression. I remember when the author of “turning earth” had lost her sister and she had a time when her garden was put on a back burner. I don’t think for as long, though.

My life has changed so much. I have had more obligations outside my homelife, which was one reason to concentrate upon the hobby of gardening: it meshed so well with the SAHM life. I have been going steadily into what seems a November of life. Getting ready for the diminished opportunities ahead, graying out some of the brighter explosions of energy and enthusiasms.

My garden has been changing, too. Some years ago I started to depend more on shrubs. They are now growing quite large, and some of the perennials have been lost, they needed more care than what I had given. Sometimes I wish I could just lose myself in the garden, but there are just too many demands elsewhere. And so. I have a neglected garden and I am too ashamed to write about gardening when my own is in disrepair.

Do you have anything you would like to change but feel is hopeless and that you are helpless? That is how I feel about my gardens at this juncture. But I keep telling myself that I will rekindle my enthusiasm, and perhaps I may. I have tried to recover my health, which was compromised by the stress and overwork of dealing with my parents, and I will be finished with the process of moving my mother to my home by next spring. So perhaps the time and the energy will be there for gardening.

It seems so little time has been left for my own interests that they have all shriveled. I do write quite a bit in the other blog, truegrit, but that is the only personal outlet I have anymore. Sounds sort of dismal doesn’t it? Sort of dark November with leaden depressing clouds. Sorry. Don’t mean to.

I don’t mind November, actually. While it’s colors are muted, there is a quietness to the rain and the overcast days. The leaves finish falling from the tress and everything looks so architectural. I hear the birds more clearly, which I surmised was from the loss of the leaf cover muffling their sound. The nights are calm and the moon of November is an ethereal glowing, not the golden and impressive look of October’s moon. As if a few steps could take you to its surface…. November is distant and reserved, shining with its far away beauty. Last night it was framed with striations of cirrus clouds like French ticking on the bias. Very decorative and striking.

I collected some Hedge apples, the fruit of the Osage Orange tree. If I ever get my dining room straightened up ( presently serving as catch-all for all the organization projects) I hope to have them sit in a big bowl of fragrant acid green. They often last until the New Year.

If I do any last minute gardening I will report it here. Right now the only thing happening is leaf raking!

Technorati Tags: autumn, November


~~~~

DISCLOSURE: I may be an affiliate for products that I recommend. If you purchase those items through my links I will earn a commission. You will not pay more when buying a product through my link. Thank you, in advance for your support! Privacy Policy
« landscape choices
First Snowfall »

Oh, hi there!

I was a garden blog pioneer, and began writing on this blog in 2003. Before that I had begun a garden website that has been at its own domain since 2006, Ilona's Garden.

I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

Standouts

Do You Grow Herbs? 10 Reasons To Love Them

There are so many ways to enjoy herb plants, that they are not for herb gardens only. Think about tucking them into the landscape, into containers or into your home. I do I enjoy thee? Oh, Herb, Let me count the ways! 10 Ways I Enjoy Herbs (and you can, too!) In companion plantings, herbs […]

10 Cool Season Annual Flowers To Plant

Shirley poppies and Bachelor Buttons Not every garden writer alerts you to the fact that annuals can have seasons that are shorter than other choices. For places like Ohio which have hot summers, there are common annuals that only do well when our weather is cooler, such as in early summer. Those flowers sort of […]

Newest Postings Here

  • HELLLOOOO, From The Other Side
  • February Gardening, Last of Winter in the Flower Garden
  • Compilation of Past Mini-Posts of 2003
  • Wayback in Ilona Garden Time
  • 3 Tips For Landscaping Successfully With Ornamental Trees

Finding your way home via the garden path


Read reviews from the GardenLibarian

Visit For A Spell

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Google +
  • Wanelo

Portrait of a Gardener

gardener musings

Musings

What’s Wrong With Today’s Gardening?

Modern gardening

What Is Wrong?

Go Fresh

Garden Journal

fine garden journal

Journal, Planner and Log Book

People’s Choice

Wayback in Ilona Garden Time

posted in Uncategorized

1910 garden plan

3 Tips For Landscaping Successfully With Ornamental Trees

posted in Landscape Design Know-How, Landscape Trees

Garden update

Mid-Ohio Gardening Update

posted in 2018, How's the weather?

All Season Garden Color with Bold Foliage Effects, Masterful Contrasts

posted in Garden design ideas, Landscape Design Know-How


Bonsai Trees

Stay updated!

Get all the latest tasty goodness straight to your inbox!

Topics

Past Posts

~~~~

Join Me

  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Garden Enthusiasm

Garden Enthusiasm Delivered

* indicates required

View previous campaigns.

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Privacy, Etc.

Privacy Policy|Disclosure Policy

All rights reserved to their respective authors : Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Linking and using material attributed to the author is encouraged, ask for permission to use photos, please.

Copyright © 2019 · Part of Ilona’s Garden by Ilona Erwin

Copyright © 2019 · Divine Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in