The summer season ends for me (as the photo shows) at the last 'plant fair', at a wonderful old priory here in the UK. Do other countries have these events?
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I just attended the New Orleans Fall Garden Fest at the City Park botanical gardens. Even bought 5 rose bushes. 
Here, it is not so much an end of gardening season event as it is the start of fall and winter gardening season. I sometimes still have a few rose blooms at Christmas. We have winter crops as well, which can't grow here in the hellish sauna we call summer, --carrots, broccoli, green peas, etc.
MikeInBatonRouge
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Oct 16, 2018
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Thank you, I love hearing about other gardeners lives.
@Fernapple sure thing, variety is interesting. I grew up very near to Seattle, Washington, which I was always told has a rather similar climate to England. That is, cool and damp, but seldom bitterly cold, not anything like winter in much of the central and northeastern U.S. states.
We had all kinds of plant sales and exchanges everywhere in Dane Cty, WI, until a nasty hitchhiker ruined it.
Due to the invasive Asian jumping worm, we can no longer trade or sell plants that have been dug.
Many are now catered with annuals in pots, but I have always preferred perennials
Leafhead
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Oct 16, 2018
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That is very sad, I like perennials most of all myself, it would be a real blow if that happened here. Hope someone finds an answer for you.
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