[Magdalen] Summer extension.

[Ann Markle]

Lots of rose of Sharon here in Buffalo, too. We have so many varieties —
I’ve never noticed how many before! I love that some folks trim them into
small trees, others prefer a shrub, with blooms and fullness clear down to
the ground. And if they’re growing happily, they reproduce so prolifically,
that I always thought of them as weeds!

A parishioner told me yesterday that it’s been so hot that her patio tomato
got very stringy and sparse; as an experiment she cut it way back, and it
has grown back bushy and beautiful, and has produced a second profusion of
flowers!

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 10:11 AM Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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!
>
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
>
> 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.
>
> --
Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com