I've been awful sick so we haven't gotten all the bulbs in the ground yet. I did get the alliums planted around the roses and did a couple of lasagna pots with daffs, tulips and Tommies. I got the leucojeums planted in the box hedge along the front porch. I have no idea what I'm doing I'm just having fun planting and hoping it all looks pretty in the spring. I just need to get over this bug so I can get the rest of these planted.
I bought 2 Purple Pillar Rose of Sharon's (Hibiscus), 2 Aphrodite Sweetshub (Calyanthus), 1 Fluffy Arb (Thuja), 1 North Pole Arb (Thuja), and 1 Winecraft Black Smokebush (Cotinus) on sale at provenwinnersdirect.com. Most are so little that I am overwintering them in the large raised bed where I grew the tomatoes this year. They should be protected without being coddled. Plants need to be tough to survive NW Oklahoma weather. They can grow up a little and I won't forget them since I will see them every day. I'll have to water some this winter.
We planted a couple of Blue Point junipers and some of the Tommies in the large pots on either side of the front porch entry stairs. It hurt my feeling to pull out the Bubblegum Supertunias.
Those plants are just monsters. They were just beautiful all summer.
We have had up and down temps for the past several weeks. Some nights the lows get down to 20 degrees or so and daytime highs around 40 and then the next week we are seeing lows of 40's and highs of 70's to 80's. We did get an early freeze and my October Glory Maple's leaves just froze in green color so no beautiful fall color from it. Eventually, they will just fall off. The roses froze as did everything else that is tender. It looks so sad. A month ago everything was so pretty and green and blooming still.
Now is the season to plan new beds and prep soil and work on composting and spreading into beds for the winter months. Speaking of winter, we don't have the cold, cold winters anymore. We might have a long cold snap but it doesn't last for months on end. I remember two years in a row we did get those arctic blasts of temps well below zero for a couple of weeks at a time. I believe it was December 2022 it was like 20 below zero for a week or more and that's to say nothing of the wind chill... It was brutal. It killed several trees we had planted that year.
There is still much to do outside.
I guess the gardening season isn't really over, it's just changed... 
I received a 42 pound box from Colorblends.com today full of the most beautiful bulbs for spring today!
I am excited to see these grow this spring! I have never planted bulbs like these before. Now i just need to figure out where all of these are going to go.
In the box are:
200 Tommies crocus which grow 3-4 inches high in well drained soil in full sun to part shade and bloom a lovely purplish pink and bloom early
50 Snowflake Gravetye Giant leucojeum which grow 24-28 inches high in moist soil in full sun to part shade and bloom white & mid spring
25 Sir Winston Churchill daffodil in full sun and well drained soil. They bloom white w/ orange eye. Bloom mid spring.
400 Cakewalk Tulips blend growing to 20-24 inches high in full sun and will bloom longer in part shade. Well drained soil. mid to late spring.
10 Allium Stipulatum bloomin lilac pink and growing 42-46 inches high in full sun to part shade. Well drained soil. Species and may self sow. Late blooming.
