Late Bloomers.

9-6-14 SHORT HILLS: Since we’ve been back in NJ, it’s been hot and humid in a major way, something we haven’t had this cool and wet summer. I remember now how oppressive it can feel. We’re supposed to get T-storms later.

Yesterday we drove into NYC to have dinner with old friends Richard and Elaine at Taboon. The restaurant is Turkish/Mediterranean and we liked it a lot. Their new place has gorgeous views of the Hudson. On the way in we had a brief shower and a rainbow over Jersey City and then over lower Manhattan.

In the yard, it’s been too hot to do much, but some weeding is hard to resist so I have yielded to temptation and accumulated some small piles.

In bloom: butterfly bush, caryopteris, crepe myrtle, rose, rose of Sharon, lily turf, hosta, hydrangea, spirea, lamium, wild asters.


Crepe Myrtle, this is a late-blooming shrub, it also comes in trees.

Caryopteris another late bloomer.

Closer look at caryopteris and a pollinator.

Lily turf is yet another late bloomer.