aka Flower Hell.Welcome to the mall. It's not the colour to which I object: it's the droidlike uniformity. You can hear their little green feet: stomp stomp stomp. Eating your front-stoop pumpkins, frightening the cat, barking at passing dogs...
Leave chrysanthemums to naturalize, to bloom in the fall next year, as is their wont, and they can become quite naturally elegant things, especially when combined with other late season perennials and shrubs such as the various asters, orange-berried cotoneasters and red-leafed blueberry bushes...
Ha ha! I just put three pumpkins on the front stoop last night! I had better watch out for that uniformity droid...
ReplyDeleteI cringe at end of April when I see the "pot mums" appear, right on cue, for Mothers' Day.A week after the Day, the poor things, all shrivelled and dry, will be reduced to a couple of dollars, or even dumped on the 50 cents trolley.
ReplyDeleteTime to swoop in, pick the best and liberate them in the garden bed.