This apricot-colored hollyhock towers above my clothes line.
Summer is wrapping up. The corn harvest, for me, puts the seal on Summer's end. Squash are ballooning up in the garden and so are cantaloupes. My yearly hope is that they ripen before the first frost kills them. Sometimes they make it...some years the frost comes first.
Summer's end ushers in the end of the hollyhock blossoms. So the other day I ran out with my camera to record the last hollyhock blooms of the season.
This pale yellow hollyhock also grows near the clothesline. I relish its presence when I hang out clothes to dry.
This luscious deep-pink beauty resides near the back porch. Note one of the chicken girls peeking out from behind!
This "purple passion" is located in the Back Garden.
A trio of "pretty-in-pink" hollyhocks is located in the Back Garden, too. Note the native bee inside one of the blooms! Hasten for honey for all too soon the lean season will be upon us.
Another variation of "pretty-in-pink" also resides in the Back Garden. They are beginning to go to seed as evidenced by the seed packets along the lower portions of the flower stalk.
I admire the tenacity of this shell-pink blossom striving to open into fullness. Only a few days, maybe a couple of weeks before the first frost blackens these delicate blooms.
Such sweet beauty! Time is short before the long Winter cometh. It is with wistful eyes that I bid farewell to Summer's lush beauty. I cling to its remnants while I can.
Gail these photos are amazing! Do you offer seeds for sale? I ask this before I check to see if they will grow in zone 9,
Posted by: Margaret Butler aka Aunt Peggy | 09/18/2012 at 11:45 AM