blooming

Autumn is here again and even though we long for cooler weather so that we might approach our lovely gardens once again, we are also too aware of winter close behind! It is time to collect tools, to finally get those last potted beauties in the ground and to take stock of 'next year'!.

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. Sam Llewelyn

"September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples,
and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn."
- Robert Lowell

"It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst of
early summer and suggesting that we must now start looking forward to autumn. Not that I have any objection
to autumn as a season, full of its own beauty; but I just cannot bear to see another summer go, and I recoil
from what the first hint of autumn means."
- Vita Sackville-West

"The Druids call this celebration, Mea'n Fo'mhair, and honor the Green Man, the God of the Forest, by offering libations to trees. Offerings of ciders, wines, herbs and fertilizer are appropriate at this time.... Mabon is considered a time of the Mysteries. It is a time to honor Aging Deities and the Spirit World...."

For more information, contact: rose@DunwoodyGardenClub.com