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| Thalictrum thalictroides (Anemonella) reblooming |
With a sudden great lurch of the gears, the season has shifted into fall. The cooler air has recharged my gardening batteries after a long summer of heat, drought, deluge, and mosquitoes. It feels so good to be able to walk unhindered to the compost bins for the first time in a month and a half. We finally got the logs from the fallen tree out of the paths and off of the plants, which have been remarkably unscathed with one notable exception. The boxwood will never be the same; half of it got flattened.
Maybe it's time to try my hand at topiary.
The return of rain and cooler temperatures has set off a wave of reblooming throughout the garden, including the confused little
Anemonella (
Thalictrum thalictroides) pictured at the top, which in other years has often completely disappeared by the beginning of September. The first of the asters,
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium 'October Skies', has started blooming, and the
Colchicums are sprouting.
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Colchicum 'Zephyr' 'Poseidon' making a return appearance |
Hummingbird sightings are on the upswing, the kids are back in school, and all is right with the world (at least in my little corner of it). It's time to sit out in the garden and savor these precious days.
11 comments:
Our Spanish Broom lurched towards autumn with a burst of yellow flowers along the tips of its tallest branches. The season hasn't bothered to carry on course since then but seems to have skipped straight to early winter. Everything is falling over in the wind.
If we ever get any rain maybe I will be inspired to get into the garden again. The cooler weather is a treat.
It needs to dry out a bit for me, too.
Love the lurch! Your Anemonella is adorable. If you cut the boxwood to the ground, it will regrow, or you could do the said topiary. You would be a natural for it!
Frances
Ouch for the boxwood....A friend recently taped and wired her semi-split branches of a shrub until they grew back together. Nature is amazing. Autumn weather is so renewing; I love how invigorated and energized I feel...The cochicums are a real treat.....gail
Fall is good. Favorite time of the year, climate wise.
The temperatures have been very springlike... but I swear that we've gotten more rain this "second spring" than we normally get in a real one! Because of this, I have not been nearly as industrious as you. Good job getting the logs cleared--I'm glad (and a little jealous) that you got your second wind! :)
Beautiful time of year--no doubt about it! So neat that you're seeing signs of next spring already...until the snow flies.
Spring and Fall does recharge us for gardening!
We seem to have lurched towards autumn without much of a summer at all. My sweetcorn (planted outside)are looking a bit sad. I'm sure they're saying "what was she about planting us outside in the cold place?"
I totally agree, MMD! I'm loving this cooler weather, and though I haven't accomplished a lot yet, I love being in the garden right now. Even better, we've had some rain the past two days, so I haven't had to water!
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