Bloom Day – September 2017

At the moment I am celebrating Garden Bloggers Bloom Day with a burst of heat - after rain storms and night temperatures that went down to 35 degrees. But many plants are hitting their stride, like this coreopsis - one of several. It turns out the cardinal flowers I planted last year - are a different color than the cardinal flowers I planted this year. But no matter. My mentor, Elsa Bakalar, assured me all shades of red…