Serendib Garden

Blooming this week: asters, sedums, colchicums, hydrangea, roses. Hardy mums just starting in my garden — not quite enough to pick yet.

Monarch and ageratum.

Colchicum “Giant” — love how it glows in the autumn garden.

Blooming this week. Starting to feel a little like autumn. Finally! (Ask if you have questions about specific flowers!)

Weekly garden gather. I try to refresh the flowers in the house once a week, after I water the indoor plants. It’s supposed to be Mondays, but oh well… Blooming now: limelight hydrangea, Russian sage, ironweed, a last spike of liatris, white allium, common mallow, sedum, roses…

The shrubs outside my classroom had dozens of monarchs on them today. Migration time!

Hibiscus and goldenrod.

Just a lovely local garden I walked by that brightened my day.

It’s strange, getting so many kind condolence notes on my mother’s passing, because she and I had a complicated relationship. It was fine when I was little, then rough for quite a while; it improved when I had children, and was just starting to properly mend, not long before Amma became ill and mentally confused,