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There are two ways to bring the garden indoors at my house. One is to keep some of the flowering plants blooming a bit longer, or for the more confused plants, to get them flowering again, since it’s warmer inside than it is outside at night after August.

Geisha Girl is obliging by putting out beautiful purple and white flowers.

The other method is to cut and dry flowers, especially the herbs, when they’re at their peak. They can then share their rich colours for several months more.

Oregano is my favourite for this, and in winter I keep a vase filled with it in my bedroom, where the early sun picks up the deep violet tones.

A third method failed me this year. Normally I braid onions and garlic and they last well into the winter.

This was not a good year for crops and while the potatoes and pumpkins will hold out until Christmas, the onions and garlic are now gone.

Our loss, but before the snow fell last week I could see green tips, next years’s onions and garlics getting a good start.

Now to let them sleep through the winter so they can grow quickly in April.

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