Kite flying weather!

What a gorgeous day! These cool breezy days regenerate me! Just when you think that august has beaten you, September comes along and lifts you right back up! The orange impatiens in my garden have been limping along for a month, but as soon as we got that rain and some cool temps.. they just jumped right up and said ''hey, look at me!" The oranges and reds this time of year just seem to show up more.

So it's almost the end of annual season, and as it cools off, some annuals look better and some look worse. I take no prisoners this time of year. If the annuals look bad I rip them out, I'd rather have a plain well groomed garden this time of year, so I get out the rake, and I re-edge, and cut out anything thats brown (within reason) . If it's a container, unless it's absolutely drop dead gorgeous, out it goes. There are lots of perennials this time of year that, combined with evergreens, make for beautiful arrangements that last through the winter; and if you count the months, you get just as many months out of you winter pots as you do out of your summer ones. ( you can even do it in your glazed pots, I would just use them until christmas though, and then store them.) Don't forget though; containers still need to be watered in the fall and winter, so you have to water them by hand when they're not frozen.

So why is my title today about Kites? I watched a man with his son the other day trying to fly a kite in the abandoned lot next to City Planter. The lot is so small, how was he going to get a running start? They weren't successful, but they had alot of fun....maybe they'll come back today!!!!