Sunday, October 16, 2005
The Last Toad...
As the maples start, one by one, lighting up the fall landscape, like successive, brightly colored lanterns of red, orange, and yellow, the last woodland perennials struggle to bloom before freezing weather blows into the garden. The Chinese yellow toad lily, is always a chancy member of the late club, some years putting on a beautiful display of its waxy green leaves and deep yellow bells, filled with red spots, and some years it barely begins to bloom before being cut down. This is one of its good years, and it is much appreciated. It is rather recumbent, and so I have it tumbling over a rock. I usually have to shoo away the bumblebees to look at its flowers. 
// posted by IBOY @ 8:06 AM 
