Fall? Not already?
Unlike some years, there
haven”t been many clues out
there yet that the Fall season is
about to become “official” in a
few days.
Late summer cool tempera
tures, cloudy skies and abundant
moisture have so “greened” the
countryside that it looks more
like May than September. Com
hasn’t begun to dry down very
much and soybeans seem a ways
off from turning the yellow shade
of maturity.
Grass continues to grow like
gangbusters, keeping us running
our mowers at top speed.
Meanwhile, we’re being bom
barded with advertisements about
buying snowblowers. (No! I flat
out refuse to deal with that
thought yet!)
But maybe the flowers know
that these glorious days are surely
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The zinnias in the border have
covered themselves with wide
blooms in clear, bright colors
straight from the crayon box. No
pastels are in this boldly-hued
collection, a mass of intense scar
let-red, glowing orange, and
deep-fuschia pink.
One zinnia stalk mixed in with
this riotous bunch does have
slightly smaller blooms of a
demure, yellowish-ivory shade.
While more ho-hum than the rest,
it serves the valuable purpose of
contributing the contrast that
makes the others shine more
brightly. A bouquet of these on
the kitchen table is like an extra
ray of sunshine lighting up the
whole room.
Another old flowered standby,
marigolds, adds mounds of clear
yellow and sunny gold to the
cheery zinnias. A new type I tried
Ft.
this year, the Ladies marigolds
are the larger variety, coming into
bloom later than the small
French-types, and on bushy, two
fcet-tall stalks. Not only do the
flowers hold for long periods of
time outside on the plants, they
also remain beautiful for days
when cut in bouquets.
Meanwhile, rows of gladiola
continue to poke up long spikes
of flowers along the, edges of a
patch of has-been cantaloupe
plants and fading watermelon
vines. And, an accidental drib
bling of weed-spray intended for
the adjoining field corn that “took
out” several square yards of early
garden has proved to be a floral
boon in the long run.
Barely halfway through the
growing season, the barren patch
was already regrowing small
weeds, a sign that purposely
planted stuff would probably
thrive equally well. It provided a
spot for excess gladiola bulbs
intended to be shared with
friends—who already had enough
of their own, thank you anyway.
So now they share the
“sprayed” section with budded
stalks of chrysanthemums about
to bloom, plus some late tomatoes
and a couple of stalks of beets
from an old pack of seed tossed
into the vacancy—just in case.
With unusual ruthlessness, I
“did away” recently with several
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flowering plants that were thriv
ing in the vegetable garden.
These branched-sunflowers bore
plentiful four-inch blooms with
dainty, pale-yellow petals con
trasting to a rich, black center.
Bees loved ‘em and they
promised to provide seeds for the
finches.
Bui they became top heavy
with growth and took to leaning
down on their neighbors. After
the sunflowers toppled onto the
ripening Winter Keeper tomatoes,
plopped down over the lima bean Fall does begin this week, and
row and tripped me several times are only 182 days left ‘til
with their take-over ways, they Spring.
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became the newest layer on the
compost pile.
Even while the geraniums and
impatiens continue to thrive in
porch-box and patio containers,
their cuttings are taking root in
the greenhouse in anticipation of
next year’s floral color. And,
tulip and daffodil bulbs await a
few spare minutes for tucking
into the ground, with the latest
saved to grow a few pots for early
forcing.