Whats Going on with Queen Anne's Lace by the Side of the Road in September

Some is still blooming and attracting pollinators.

Some is going to seed.

Roadside Breakfast: Butter-and-Eggs

Like most plants, the Butter-and-Eggs I passed this morning can be called a lot of things. A roadside weed is one thing it can be called in North America. Yellow or Common toadflax is another.  And Linaria vulgaris, its botanical name, sort of makes it sound like it's being called a deplorable.

I like Butter-and-Eggs best.

Light Through The Dogwood Leaves in Late Summer

While we are on the cusp of fall, you may as well catch the sun and the warmth just because you still can.

Calamagrostis and The Little Prince

"But if you tame me it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground .Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look, you see the grain fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat..." Said the fox to the little prince.

You didn't know that The Little Prince was about plants and gardening? Well not the whole thing but some of it is.

Those Japanese Windflowers that are really Chinese in the time the wind changes

It won't be fall for another few weeks yet, but you can feel summer giving way to fall in the morning air and as the sun goes down. The anenome hybrids bloom for a long while this time of year, making me think of gardeners and plant people from seasons long ago and lands far away.