Garden clean-up

I took advantage of a nice November day to clean-up the lower garden beds. I was surprised how many things are still blooming or at least green and not quite ready to cut back. I took out the remaining scarlet runner bean plants, leaving the roots to enrich the soil. I cut back or trimmed a lot of perennials. I cut back a few of the fuchsia, but left most of them as they are still blooming and attracting many hummingbirds. I saw a charm (flock) of about 15 hummingbirds yesterday.

John pulled out the watercress that was covering the creek, so the birds will be happy again!