Well, they’re not quite gone yet. Our chrysanthemums made their first appearance again right on schedule in early October, but their time of glory is starting to come to an end.
The beginning…
I have a strange fascination with the whole idea of perennials. Going dormant underground to survive a harsh winter and coming back around to life only for the best season of the year — fall — seems very cool to me. I’m also intrigued by the fact that they’ve changed their color mix over the years. They started out as an almost equal mix of pink-purple and white blooms. But this year there were no white blooms at all.
The end…
Still so pretty but you can see the older blooms starting to wither away.
Dan and I both thought there would be more white blossoms in the mix. The white ones also showed up late to the party, well after most of the purple ones were in.
If I had my act together, I would have taken this photograph from the same vantage point with the same camera at the same time of day as the photo I took last week. Sorry, just not that organized!
To make up for my lack of organization, here is a closer view. So many more chrysanthemum flowers this week!
When Dan first planted chrysanthemums, we didn’t realize they were perennials nor that their most beautiful blooms are in the fall, and were kind of puzzled as to why the plants we thought would be flowering all summer were just a big green mass o’ leaves until fall. Now we look forward to the flowers’ return every year in late September or early October. I’ll post another photo when the whole pot is fully in bloom.
