Heat Wave Breaks.

9-12-16 SHORT HILLS: We have just finished a hot spell with high humidity and temps in the nineties. We were cowering inside by the AC. Today is autumnal by comparison, and preferable. There has been very little rain and the sprinklers are back on.

We have had dinners with Bill and Lynn and Lonnie and Bette recently. I have had many compliments on the tomatoes that we gifted to people.

New blooms: a new bunch of leadwort.


New crape myrtle, the other one is more pink than this one.

White snakeroot, Ageratina altissima, is a wildflower [weed, if you prefer] that likes shade and/or sun, has no thorns or burrs and blooms at this time of year all over this yard. There is a cultivar for sale in the nurseries that is probably less invasive. It is usually a foot and a half tall, but can be much bigger. I'm happy to have it at this time of the season when not much is happening.