The panels don't fit the frames tightly all the way around. There are small spaces where they don't touch the frame at all. The panels are not 100% perfectly flat. We plan to use silicone to seal the panels to the frame before next winter. The panels are held in my metal clips. I hope the Rion is more air-tight than the HFGH. If you come up with a better method of sealing the panels please let me know.

My large clump of the mum "Hillside Pink Sheffield" is still loaded with flowers. We're having an unseasonably warm sunny day, and an amazing number and variety of bees and other flying insects are visiting the flowers - honeybees, metallic bronze and green creatures, and something that's elongated with a tan body and groups of sharply demarcated white spots. Quite a show. Other perennials that are still vibrant include Aster "Raydon's Favorite", plumbago (red foliage) and of course all the ornamental grasses. Plus I just noticed my small paperbark maple has turned nice shades of red - I'll have to go out for a closer look.

Fall was beautiful here too... colors were spectaculer. I still have several things blooming. The mums, of course, roses (several), and the lamium is blooming again! Oh, and a couple of petunias that did nothing much all summer are trying to make up for it. They each have one flower each :-)

Yes, thanks, Maryl and flowergirl, it is Torenia. It was always on the tip of my brain but all I could pull up were names of Italian food dishes! No excuses!! And Maryl, I was surprised about the reseeding as well. I have always had them in hanging baskets. I would not have noticed this if it had not been blooming when very small. And I am surprised you have not seen the hibiscus either. You know it grows huge, above rooftops, and can be rooted easily by cutting the stalks into lengths and putting them in water indoors during winter. I have given away hundreds of “sticks” over the years!! Debra, I do love lantana for its heat hardiness. This year I had probably 12 different varieties-some will return-some will not. That daylily was a bonus plant a couple of years ago-not a favorite-so I let it bloom out. Stalk was actually lying on the ground!! Kate