The flowers get put to bed

Today the weather was just perfect, so we decided to finish up some outdoor chores. Michael mowed the lawn and then we went to Lowe's to buy some peat moss to pack away the Cannas, Dahlias and Elephant Ear bulbs that needed winter storage.
In the above photo, from left to right, you can see the bushel of tall orange blossom Cannas (the purple tubers), then the Dahlia bulbs(the brown ones), and then the smaller red blossom Cannas(the white tubers).
Michael made this box out of 4 pieces of scrap lumber and some wire cage material for the bottom. We then lined the crate with an old sheet, put down some peat moss and then back-filled with bulbs and then covered them again with more peat. He installed a divider to keep the orange Cannas and Dahlia's separate from the red Cannas. It's important to know which are which because the red ones are shorter than the orange, and it would not be good to get them mixed up and accidentally have the red ones wind up in the back of the flower bed. Here everything is all wrapped up and ready for winter storage. It amazes me that it all started like this:...and then turned into this: