warm days, cool nights
The nights are getting cooler now. It feels and smells like early-autumn when I wake up, but is summery-warm again by mid-afternoon. It won’t be long before all these temperamental non-native beauties will succumb to the overnight chill.
floxglove flowers (Digitalis)
You have fox gloves blooming in September?? Well, I’ll be darned! They’re lovely. They are Spring bloomers here in the mid-Atlantic states. I think I’m jealous :)
A very long time ago, we had to cut down a beautiful oak tree that was threatening our barn, you cannot imagine my shock the next year, early summertime, a forest of Fox gloves was growing. The shade of the oak tree had stopped them from blooming,even growing for years. This was in the Finger Lakes region of New York state.