It has been said that in our part of the world, Texas, we,
too, have four seasons: cold and wet,
real hot and dry, or one day of spring or one day of fall.
Well, that’s not entirely true. At this state in the evolution of the world’s
weather cycles, we still have a time of mild temps in the spring and another
time in the fall, during the wonderful periods called ‘equinoxes’, when the
balance of length of days is perfect.
And sometimes because of this, spring bloomers bloom in the fall, hence
our quince blooming lightly now, and fall bloomers bloom in the spring as when
we’ve seen our fall asters bloom lightly.
Right now at the end of September, on the first full day of
fall for this year of 2012, there are spider lilies and sternbergia blooming
red and yellow, a very beloved old daylily named Raspberry Rapture has sent up
another bloom scape, the purple chrysanthemums are setting buds
vigorously. And the rhodophiala, the wonderful fall amaryllis, is wonderful as always. It is ridiculously hot, in
the nineties today, we haven’t had rain for weeks, and yet these wonderful
plants are valiantly responding to the slightest respite from heat and drought.
Somewhere other than here there are flaming maple trees,
Japanese anemones are blooming gorgeously, and the air is crisp. Here we have only the suggestion of fall and
some wonderful old friends blooming.
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