Is it really time to relinquish summer?
Here is a mosaic of my garden blooms in September. Although most of the plants look raggedy & spent, they are still smaller blooms soaking in the last warm sun rays of the season.
Here is a mosaic of my garden blooms in September. Although most of the plants look raggedy & spent, they are still smaller blooms soaking in the last warm sun rays of the season.
Just as I was slowly tucking some of the plants in for hibernation, another new bloom surprised me: a toad lily! (Trycirtis 'White Tower')-below.
This is a woodland plant that was given to me by one of the Master Gardeners. A 3" plant with 3 stems which was constantly being dug by the squirrels and trampled on by some mammal (neighbor cat, I suspect) all through summer! So you can imagine how surprised I was to see it in bloom! The diameter of the crown is less than an inch but the petals look as sturdy as an orchid.Just to show that nature is always full of surprises and one never knows what's there unless you poke around a little bit!
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