Sharon's blog: September Stuff

I thought there wasn't a thing going on outside today. It's a little drab out there. Not a lot to see except the cottonwood leaves that insist on dropping by the dozen every time the breeze stirs them. I didn't think there was any color either, mostly that dullish green that lays like a veil over everything just before Jack Frost brings his paint brush along and livens things up.

I was a little bit wrong.

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So then, after watching the butterflies and the bees playing around on the sedum, I took another glance around. Sophy's Rose is still happy. So's the hibiscus.

And there's always a Rose of Sharon in bloom.

But I love the coleus in front. I overwintered both of these, the variegated is one of those called Christmas coleus. The dark, which is really blacker than the image appears, is one that my friend Gloria in Virginia sent me a couple of years ago. Love these colors!

And that's about all. There's a bud or two on the carpet roses but the hydrangea (the third or maybe fifth one I've managed to send to an early grave) is beyond repair. If it wasn't me who killed it, then I'll blame it on the rain that never came. Guess I shoulda watered more.

I really should just fill my yard with Superman roses and be done with it.

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