FROM THE GARDEN After a long, hot summer, gardeners long for fresh fall flowers
Posted: August 16, 2009 at 4:52 a.m.
From the middle of August on, I start yearning for my fall flowers. The usual suspects occupy special places in the garden: asters, mums, hardy begonias, Japanese anemones, toad lilies and tea olives. My really special ones seem to make a dash to bloom just before the first frost, sometimes sprinting over the finish line in time, sometimes not.
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Living, Pages 13 on 08/16/2009
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