Hard to believe that summer is drawing to a close - at least as far as my perennials are concerned.
Not that all the flowers have died...
There are (thankfully) still a few brown-eyed Susans around...
Some of my neighbors consider them to be weeds, but I welcome their cheerfulness.
Other summer flowers - like the tall yellow golden glow rudbeckia (outhouse plant) next to the deck - are beginning to fade.
The only
new blooms are the Japanese anemones (also called windflowers).
Sadly, now that they are blooming, I have no more new flowers to look forward to...
The sedum are turning pink. I love them - and the bees love them - but I don't really view them as flowers. Once they turn red, they stay until we cut them back.
I often don't trim them back in fall: I enjoy seeing them peer out of snow banks in winter, reminding me that my perennials will return again in spring!
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