As I mentioned in a previous post, my annual flowers are looking beautiful since the heat and drought dissipated. But my perennials are totally confused!
Most of my annual plants come up in early spring, bloom, then die back for the remainder of the growing season. Not this year! Apparently the drought and heat represented "winter" to them, and now that we have reasonable temperatures and plenty of rainfall, they are rejuvenated. I have had new fronds of my Autumn Ferns come up, new growth on the day lillies, and blooms on whatever the shrub is on the border of my property. (The border shrub doesn't surprise me, though. I've seen that silly thing bloom in December!) The broad-leaf hostas in front, though shredded from the last hailstorm, have finally bloomed.
And guess what? There is a frost advisory for tonight. It's plenty early in the season for that! It seems that fall arrived almost exactly on the first day on the calendar. Yesterday, I broke out the fall decorations for the house. Just enough to celebrate. I'm not ready for the weather to go from desert to rain forest to winter all in eight weeks' time, but such is life in the Midwest. Ain't it grand?
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