The rain cleared, and it was windy the rest of the afternoon. I took pictures and picked tomatoes and corn. The corn was very starchy and neither of us did more than taste it—too bad, it looks great. The tomatoes are still fine. Hundreds of them are on the ground, cracked or split and over ripe. I still picked a load and tossed the split and rotted ones over the fence. A couple hours later, a flock of a dozen turkeys were eating the rejects.
The flower beds all have that end-of-the-season shaggy and over-grown look. Lots of things are still blooming, including the hardy hibiscus that I planted last year. I thought it had died over the winter, but it turned out to be a very late sleeper. I was waiting all summer to show its big red flower and announce its survival, but it waited until we had left to bloom, sometime between then and now. Maybe there will be another flower. Asters are everywhere. They look great mixed with goldenrod.
There is a little early color in the maples.
New blooms: chrysanthemum, hibiscus.
Turkeys, about a dozen, were clustered around the tomatoes beds in the evening eating the rejects that I tossed out of the garden during the afternoon.
Sedum in mostly white....
...and red.
Asters are everywhere. After they have been pollinated, the centers darken. That might be a message to the pollinators to go for the yellow entered flowers. The petals remain open so that the mass of flowers attract the bugs from a distance.
Bottle gentian appears to offer no access to a pollinator, but somehow or other they prosper. Contrast this gentian with the one I showed on 8-7-16.
A mass of goldenrod and asters with a Joe Pye weed stalk sticking up in the middle.
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