Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Bookends
September arrived on a cool breeze. Another sign of approaching autumn. While weeding last week, I saw the tiny white flowers of some type of cress - one of my earliest spring weeds - and thought how spring and fall are sometimes mirror images.
The aphids are thick in the spring, and now they're back.
One day in early spring, the crocus flowers bloom amidst a few thin leaves. One day in early autumn, the rain lilies bloom amidst a few thin leaves.
The birds move north in the spring, and now they're beginning to move south again.
In the spring, I search the leaf litter for the first snowdrop. In the autumn, the leaf litter surprises me with the first cyclamen flower.
11 Comments:
What a beautiful post. It makes me miss home - and late summer cool breezes.
This post was pure poetry, Entangled, just lovely.
It happens here, too...looking for the just-visible points of daffodils in February- and the similar points of Oxblood lilies in September.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
We had a nice cool day today also..
wonderful photo's and comparisons of spring and fall!! Your right there are a lot of similarities...
great post!
Cat
Beautiful post... just wonderful.
It does pay scratching around in the fallen leaves, doesn't it? You unearth such lovely treasures that way, regardless of the season.
Lovely post Entangled!
All: Thanks for the nice comments. We're enjoying a quiet holiday weekend here. I don't get too many poetical thoughts, so when I do, I have to write them down ;-)
The rain lilies look wonderful and I was surprised to see our white cyclamen blooming too.
Ki: The rain lilies looked so fresh and cool after the rain, but now they're shriveled with everything else. I sure wish we'd get some more rain.
What type of white cyclamen do you have? I'm thinking that a white one would show up better in the woods than the pink C. hederifolium that I have now.
Entangled, just the white Cyclamen you buy at the big box or grocery store. I don't even know the scientific name - probably C. persicum which is frost tender. We enjoyed them indoors in the fall and winter and set them out in the spring. Only one survived but it looks great in our tiny woodland garden - for now at least.
These are beautiful photographs. So true how sometimes fall mirrors spring. In my garden, some of the Primulas are about to bloom again. My little bulbs are sending up new growth as well. This amid the yellowing leaves falling with regularity over the garden.
Ki: I never thought of planting a florist's cyclamen outside - good idea! I hardly ever buy indoor plants that I know I'm going to throw away (poinsettias etc.), but I have no problem buying summer annuals. I know this is not rational. ;-)
Kate: It surely seems that it's too soon for all this, but that's my wishful thinking, I guess. I noticed new foliage of Muscari and Ipheion recently too.
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