The First Day Of Autumn

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

John Howard Bryant

Colchicum in the rock garden

Crocus cartwhrightianus 'Marcel'

Well it's the first day of Autumn, and the saffron is blooming. So the summer I guess I am free to summarize now, it was a wetter then normal summer, and September was the same. I think it was much more humid on the average than it has been in a long time. It should be interesting to see what the winter has in store!

Mark 

End of the Season Thank You!

"If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning, and if it's your job to to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first." Mark Twain



Illahe is now finished shipping for the 2019 Season, a big thank you to all the great customers who ordered, we wish you a garden full of fantastic flowers in the years ahead!

Now back to blogging about the bulbs.

Biarum tenuifolium ssp. abbreviatum

From Italy to Sardinia, and to Western Greece, this little aroid makes a wonderful display in late summer/early fall as it sends up it's 3" tall flowers right at soil level. Great in the rock garden or a trough with its diminutive size you just have to remember that it's there when the leaves die back in summer. These are fast reproducing, making many offsets and if you crowd them in a pot makes a fantastic show display if your club does a fall flower show.

The summer in a nutshell was more mild then the last few it seems, not as much frequent days over 90, but also more humid with shots of rain coming consistently about every 2-3 weeks.

Cheers,

Mark