"If it is true that one of the greatest pleasures of gardening lies in looking forward, then the planning of next year's beds and borders must be one of the most agreeable occupations in the gardener's calendar. This should make October and November particularly pleasant months, for then we may begin to clear our borders, to cut down those sodden and untidy stalks, to dig up and increase our plants, and to move them to other positions where they will show up to greater effect. People who are not gardeners always say that the bare beds of winter are uninteresting; gardeners know better, and take even a certain pleasure in the neatness of the newly dug, bare, brown earth."- Vita Sackville-West
I used to dread November in my Chicago home and garden because it meant the ending of the gardening season. But here in the sunny South November can be and often is a delightful sunny season with many plants still blooming . Aster, Mums, Lantana, coreopsis, zinnias, marigolds, sweet william, goldenrod, and sages, to name a few, still show their colorful faces.
The days grow shorter and cooler and there is more time to relax and enjoy the wonderful month of November.
I have added a hundred daffodils to the beds so I can enjoy their colorful cheerful faces in April.
The Lantana still blooms and attracts the last of the swallowtails. November in North Carolina is now delightful and slowly ushers in the end of the growing season.
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