[Magdalen] Summer extension.

[Marion Thompson]

Lots of blooms on my Rose of Sharon on the north shore of Lake Ontario.  Mine is a double white with a streak of red deep in its heart and each branch had/has a profusion of buds.  It had a tough winter and needed a lot of cleaning up in spring. The bees and small wasps have loved the flowers!

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From: Grace Cangialosi
Sent: September 3, 2018 7:49 AM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Summer extension.

Same here for the Rose of Sharon and also the Crape Myrtle.

For some reason I’ve never liked Rose of Sharon. Maybe it’s the color; most of them her are a kind of pink/lavender. 

> On Sep 2, 2018, at 11:42 AM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> The summer heavy rains and hot, humid weather have been
> good most garden plants, but bad for the electric airconditioning
> bills.
>  
> There is still an abundance here in NE Pennsylvania USA of tomato
> production, for example.  Usually by this time there is a marked
> diminution of production. Not this year.
>  
> I've never seen the Rose of Sharon shrubs bloom so freely
> as this year.  I call them the "poor man's hibiscus," for they
> are in the hibiscus genus, and their blossoms, both single
> and double; strongly resemble the tropical variety.  They love
> heat and humidity.
>  
> Still 90's F this week.  It's going to break to an autumn
> pattern eventually
>  
>  
>  
> David S.