Name: Jeanie Minnesota (Zone 4a) Replace your lawn with a garden!
So here it is in November, when normally there is No Color At All in the Minnesota landscape, but I have a bright pink First Love dianthus blooming its food head off in my front yard. (I am NOT complaining, mind you.)
And even after a few frosts and at least one hard freeze, I still have some containers providing color, as well as a few random blooms here and there. I can't bring myself to dump the containers if there's anything still blooming...I may well have to do so in the snow if this goes on much longer. (Still NOT complaining.)
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Old gardeners never die. They are just pruned and repotted.