Garden Diary

I’m in northern Indiana.

December 2, 2025 🌱 It hardly rained all year, but boy did it snow in November.

A shovel laying next to a yellowed, freshly transplanted peony plant.

November 24, 2025 🌱 There’s a new round of construction zone refugees in my garden.

We found this peony growing under an enormous baptisia. I hope it likes its new home where it will actually get some light.

November 18, 2025 🌱 Just a few straggling leaves remain on the purpleleaf sandcherry.

A tree branch with yellow leaves bent all the way to the ground under the weight of several inches of wet snow. A wooden privacy fence, wire mesh fence, and tomato cage are also caked with snow.

November 10, 2025 🌱 The first snowfall this year wasn’t playing around.

November 6, 2025 🌱 We had our first frost this morning.

As the garden goes dormant for the winter, I will drop down to posting photos once a week. Daily garden photos will resume when the snowdrops emerge.

Daily crochet photos will continue at @threadleafcrochet.bsky.social

November 5, 2025 🌱 The sedge by the compost bin continues to thrive, and continues to bring me joy.

November 4, 2025 🌱 The threadleaf coreopsis still in bloom.

November 3, 2025 🌱 Fall color it is. Here’s a different Virginia jumpseed plant in a lovely yellow.

Lovely. Such a pretty color and texture.

November 2, 2025 🌱 Virginia mountain mint in fall. It has the cutest little gray seedheads.

A mystery plant riddled with holes.

November 1, 2025 🌱 Not sure what this plant is, but it’s clear that something finds it delicious.

October 31, 2025 🌱 A fallen maple leaf snagged in the purpleleaf sand cherry.

The sandcherry looks like it has magnificent fall color, but its leaves have been this red all along 😆

Chocolate mint sprouts next to a garden log with a bright white bracket mushroom. There’s a few green, yellow, and red fall leaves on the ground and a dry branch covered in fuzzy seeds.

October 30, 2025 🌱 A cozy corner of the garden. Mushroom log, bright red fallen leaves, fuzzy seeds, and some chocolate mint because why not.

The seeds are on a stem that the painters broke and left laying around. My best guess is frost aster, but none of my other frost aster is fuzzy like that.

Sorry to hear that.

I also have plants that just don’t seem to like it in my garden. Blue-eyed grass, for one.

October 29, 2025 🌱 Trumpet vine spilling over the top of the fence.

This side of the fence is deep shade. Trumpet vine likes full sun, so I’m not sure why it has put this much growth into such a spot. But I don’t mind.

October 28, 2025 🌱 The early sunflower is still putting out flowers.

October 27, 2025 🌱 This ground cherry plant is also following its own schedule.

The other plant was at the unripe fruit stage three months ago.

October 26, 2025 🌱 This one part of the grey-headed coneflower plant is following its own schedule.

October 25, 2025 🌱 Canada goldenrod, now even fuzzier.

October 24, 2025 🌱 Grey-headed coneflower seedheads.

Looks like the birds have already started munching.

October 23, 2025 🌱 There are two new branches on the wee snowberry bush.

The dark wood is old growth, and the lighter branches are new.

It doesn’t make the most aesthetic photo, but such exciting news!

October 22, 2025 🌱 The late boneset is currently a mix of green stems with green leaves, red stems with green leaves, and red stems with red leaves.

October 21, 2025 🌱 A fall composition.

The yellow leaves are Missouri ironweed, the white flowers are frost aster, and on the bottom left is the “Red Flame” switchgrass.

Lovely.

A trumpet-shaped magenta morning glory flower covered in water droplets.

October 20, 2025 🌱 We finally got a solid fall rain.

Here’s a glamour shot of a drenched morning glory flower.

October 19, 2025 🌱 The same maple tree three days later.

Fall comes at you fast.

October 18, 2025 🌱 Virginia jumpseed turning yellow.

I’m not sure whether this is fall color or if this plant is struggling. My other jumpseed plants are still green.

October 17, 2025 🌱 Leafy greens get bitter when the plant blooms, so the sidewalk-crack lime basil is no longer as tasty.

But it still smells every bit as delightful.

A maple tree with a double trunk and green leaves against a blue sky.

October 16, 2025 🌱 The maple tree is still a bright summery green.