Good To The Last Aster

The Time of Vegetation began in a flood and ends in a drought. There were no meadow flattening events all season. Just too many damn varmints. At least there weren't any loose cows this year. It was a very good year of Bloom Days.

Good to the last aster.

The first real cold is arriving tomorrow and settling in for a couple days. The lows will be close enough to freezing to qualify as first frost arriving on the average schedule. It won't be a killing freeze. The Time of Vegetation can still slowly fade away in a blaze of color.

The native, Blue Wood Aster, Symphyotrichum cordifolium is the last dominant wild flower in the forest to finish blooming. It ends in blue then turns to fire before the Barren Time.

Mums can extend the bloom season just a couple weeks longer. They do struggle with the competition. That reminds me, I need to give the super pink one, 'Clara Curtis' another try.

That's my October Bloom Day report.