Rainy NJ.

9-11-18 SHORT HILLS: It’s been raining for three days, and everything is soggy, soaked, slippery and wet. I fell on a wet flagstone while outside taking pictures. Today there’s only drizzle, but we are in line for the remnants of two hurricanes.

I’ve been back in NJ for a couple of drippy days and have done nothing about all the weeding and trimming that needs to be done.

In bloom: caryopteris, clematis, aster, white snakeroot, rose-of-Sharon, crape myrtle, rose, hosta.


Rose-of-Sharon is a cousin of the hardy hibiscus pix I've recently posted.

See the family resemblance?

White snakeroot is all over the yard, and quite welcome as a late bloomer. The opening buds make little pentagons.

Crape myrtle is soaked and bent over from the rain. It's buds are hexagonal.

Caryopteris provides the fall blue and lasts deep into October.

Hosta looking quite soggy.

This white-star clematis is the same as the one on the deck in VT. It's an aggressive climber and spreader.