It was a little slip of a thing about 5 months ago but seems to have taken hold well now. It bloomed a little in August or early September.

Great!
Are the flowers pale pink?

I'm thinking they were but as I said, my brain has apparently vacated the premises.

We are seeing very healthy columbine leaves. However they run around on their own.

I got a new picture of Rozanne today.



Karen

Beautiful flowers on Rozanne, Karen! And love the stone wall!!

Lucy, columbine leaves........ always so nice a portent of things to come....

Karen, I wonder if your 'Rozanne' is getting more sun than mine - my plants are *much* rangier.

sheryl said:Karen, I wonder if your 'Rozanne' is getting more sun than mine - my plants are *much* rangier.

Sheryl, mine is pretty straggly now too, if you could see it from above. The fresh green foliage is growing out of the center, and it's surrounded by those rather spent, sprawling stems of flowers. Now that days are so short it's probably only getting 2 or 3 hours of direct sun.

Speaking of short days daylight savings time ends this weeken. So depressing.

Karen

Grrrr- I am not fond of daylight savings time.

Could also be that your plant is a little more mature than mine? If it stops raining this afternoon I'll take a quick pick and maybe you can tell me if it looked like this when you first planted it.

Raining here too.

I love daylight savings time. After we return to EST I feel like it's dark out all the time. When I worked full time I often went to work in the dark and came home in the dark, wouldn't see daylight for days on end. I work in surgery, no windows.

Give me DST anytime.

Karen

I too love DST but feel we are in the minority...I love the long hours of sunshinein the evening in summer.

People still have the small mums in bloom. We didn't have the energy to plant any this year.

LOL - I agree with you, I was referring to the entire concept of changing time around.

We had 2 inches of rain overnight, so I covered the pots of semps on the deck.
They hate alot of wet and I could swear they thanked me this morning.

Tee, isn't it the truth? The easiest way to lose semps is mushy medium and too much water/rain.
That is why I grow them in pots, not in the garden. Tried that. If you have raised beds devoted only to them or planted with like plants, they probably would be fine. But I found in the regular garden, no go! Certain death by drowning.
With pots I can control the amount of moisture they get, the little divas!

Yes, forget about being bothered much by the cold ... but too much water will get them every time. They hate it. Fast draining planting medium is a must. I have a few in the garden but many in pots. When I plant the new Opuntia bed, I may incorporate some semps in there. That area is protected by the eaves of the house and stays much drier than anywhere else in the yard.

Yes, Tee
Even with perfect drainage and soil...too much rain will stress the semps no end. That's why I like to control the water these get....what we do for them, right