The tall asters, now known as Symphyotrichum, will be finished with their impressive run by a week from now, leaving only some of their smaller cousins to carry on the garden show. \u00a0The fall-blooming colchicums will also have finished their day in the sun, leaving only a few fading petals on the ground to show that they ever bloomed. \u00a0Next spring I will see their foliage and remember\u2014once again\u2014that flowers and foliage are separate events in some species. \u00a0With ivy-leafed cyclamen (Cyclamen hederifolium), both blooms (which appear in fall) and leaves (spring) are beautiful. \u00a0Colchicums are a different story, with coarse, strappy leaves that you would just as soon forget about.<\/p>\n
Though the roses are still blooming fitfully, the number of flowers in the garden is diminishing.\u00a0 I am glad for the hardy chrysanthemums, which will open in two weeks or so. \u00a0I have some that are five years old and enormous, sprawling over as much as five or six square feet. \u00a0The blooms are not as puffy as those on the forced and manicured specimens available at every retailer, but they are plentiful and the flowering period is long. \u00a0Some years there are even a few left for the Thanksgiving centerpiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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