In just two days, September will be here. It always marked the true end of summer to me, even though the days were often still hot, the light had already begun to shift and the days were getting ever so slightly shorter. As a kid, I hated it. As an adult, I often think about how I have missed most of summer and how did that happen??
When I was a kid, summer lasted forever, now it seems like it is two weeks long. How did I miss vacation time? And not having a pool to laze in and swim in, that is the thing I most miss about living in Florida. I would get up in the early morning, make coffee and slip out to the pool and swim laps - fast and slow, and sip my coffee while everyone slept.
This summer I saw the daylilies and then the rain and weeds came. I sprained my ankle, and walking on the uneven ground of my gardens to do weeding was out...so the weeds have won this year.
I do love the change in the greens at this time of the year. The bright spring greens are wonderful, but the complexity of the greens as they age and darken is something I enjoy watching. As I walk my dogs each morning, I have been seeing lots of purple flowers. Why so many purple flowers in fall?
Thistle
Joe Pye Weed and Ironweed
Flax on the roadside
Here's one of my hydrangeas that has been incredible this year. It is at the end of its season.
And I always love the Queen Anne's Lace (Not purple!!)
What kinds of flowers and foliage are you seeing where you are right now??
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The Crape Myrtle bushes are in bloom making everywhere you look ovserve a sea of red. Fall is almost here and soon the mums will be out too reminding me of football games when I was in high school.
Here in northern California, I don’t see a lot of color changes. Deciduous trees don’t really turn until November or December when it starts to get colder (or at least what passes for ‘colder’ out here). We mourn the end of summer by looking out at the dark sky at 8:00 PM and saying, “It’s too dark to play golf now.”
Blooming in my garden: Ruby Star Coneflower, Incrediball Hydrangea (which has turned a beautiful soft green), Matrona Sedum, Becky Shasta Daisy, and several annuals. The daylilies are long gone but their flowers brought pleasure in June and July.
With all the rain and cloud cover, everything is just a little, or a lot, late this year. I still have one or two magnolia blossoms, and our second-bloom azaleas are going strong. Everything is green, green, green when it usually is brown, brown, brown.
I look forward to the turning of the Burning Bushes, they go from a pretty red to a magical burning purple /red. I do think it is my favorite color.
I look forward to the turning of the Burning Bushes, they go from a pretty red to a magical burning purple /red. I do think it is my favorite color.
The trees here began turning in early August, but are just now really starting to give in to it. The last of the hydrangeas are still on the bushes and the early mums have started. The sunflowers are beginning to fade, which always makes me sad, since they’re my favorites.
Almost time to put out pots of mums again. Sorry the summer is ending, but looking forward to a gorgeous fall.
Here in Norway we have some beautiful Autumn flowers + it is blueberry and wild cranberry picking time! My favorite is a deep blue completely round thistle that is growing…it is spiky and sturdy…but the blue is an amazing color!
Living in the desert it is all about subtle changes that you have to look for or you’ll miss it, and right now those are buds on the rabbit brush that cover the area. This time next week the desert will be alive with rabbit brush gold. Let the sneezing fall season begin! I personally love the smell of rabbit brush!