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ANN LOVEJOY | The joys of September gardening
As the wishy-washy summer recedes, the softer, shorter days of September come as a grace note. Even without rain, the heavier dews give plants that looked half wilted through August a second wind.
Asters are old faithfuls for fall bloom and rightly so. Every garden should have a tumble of periwinkle blue Aster frikartii, which starts flowering in late summer and keeps on coming until frost cuts it down. It looks especially pretty with blue hydrangeas and sheaves of Gladiolus tristis, or the Sad Glad. This charming species gladiolus has dusky lavender flowers, each marked with a greenish "tear drop." It spreads readily, so put it where it can mingle without harm to neighboring treasures.
A dazzling goldenrod, Solidago rugosa Fireworks, is an architectural perennial that starts off as a bushy, almost shrublike foliage plant, then lets rip in late summer with spangled nets of gold that look like frozen fireworks. Long-lasting in flower, it does get tippy in a rainy year, so some discrete staking is in order.
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Benefit set for Lori Schopf family A meal will be served from 4-7 pm and the band Black Cadillac will perform from 8-11 pm Donations may be made to Lori Schopf Family Benefit, |
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Your garden: Plant your winter greens by mid January The Gladiolus genus has more than 150 species and originates from southern Africa and Europe. The name comes from the Latin for sword, referring to the leaf |
