driveway mums
Photo by J. Harrington
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We had been contemplating replacing the mums this year with some asters. The asters we planted near the road on the driveway's North side two years ago were inadvertently dug up by the Daughter Person. The ones we planted last year on the South side of the garden suffered the same fate as our mums. We fairly quickly learned to be more intentional with our hunting and fishing efforts, rather than "chuck and chance it. Our gardening and horticultural education is proceeding much more slowly. Older brain?
wild asters by the roadside
Photo by J. Harrington
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Since we now know to try to protect this year's mums (straw mulch?) to see if any survive, we'll look for alternative locations for the asters we were considering substituting for mums. Maybe they'll do better since climate change has now brought the border of hardiness zones 4a and 4b near to us. Not long ago we were in zone 3.
Chrysanthemum
by Josephine Moore
Petals, defying gravityin life, strong in youth,using water for bonestructure, openwith hydraulic home-grownMechanics. The delicacyof pressurized bloomsis reinforced by dryspells: arid soilleaves weakened gardenryTo wilt as the flower-heads droopto their weedless graves.But harvest chrysanthemumsat their peak full-ness, press them among plumPudding recipes and bibleverses, squeeze moisturefrom xylem and phloem,and they will standcrisper than freshly-cut mums.
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