Comments on: Totally equinoxious http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/totally-equinoxious/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sun, 19 May 2013 12:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Becky http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/totally-equinoxious/comment-page-1/#comment-6609 Becky Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:03:27 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/?p=2790#comment-6609 On my morning walk friday, I saw some crocus along someone's walkway. I did a double take and decided they must be fake because...it's FALL! I've never seem them in the fall. Then I come and check out this blog and there they are again...Are they real or are they fake??? <em>Becky, That's a trick question! Colchicum autumnale definitely resemble crocus and are known as Autumn crocus but they're not a true crocus. Not only that, but there are other fall blooming crocus that <strong>are </strong>true crocus including Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus). Don't confuse the two and try to harvest any spice though because Colchicum are poisonous... -kris</em> On my morning walk friday, I saw some crocus along someone’s walkway. I did a double take and decided they must be fake because…it’s FALL! I’ve never seem them in the fall. Then I come and check out this blog and there they are again…Are they real or are they fake???

Becky, That’s a trick question! Colchicum autumnale definitely resemble crocus and are known as Autumn crocus but they’re not a true crocus. Not only that, but there are other fall blooming crocus that are true crocus including Saffron crocus (Crocus sativus). Don’t confuse the two and try to harvest any spice though because Colchicum are poisonous… -kris

]]> By: Layanee http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/totally-equinoxious/comment-page-1/#comment-6590 Layanee Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:21:32 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/?p=2790#comment-6590 The ferns and the Miscanthus purpurescens are showing their fall wardrobes and the scent in the air is unmistakable. <em>Layanee, I'll bet it's delicious in your neck of the woods - and if the ragweed would finally quit down here, maybe I'd catch a scent or two of fall too! -kris</em> The ferns and the Miscanthus purpurescens are showing their fall wardrobes and the scent in the air is unmistakable.

Layanee, I’ll bet it’s delicious in your neck of the woods – and if the ragweed would finally quit down here, maybe I’d catch a scent or two of fall too! -kris

]]> By: Digital Flower http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/totally-equinoxious/comment-page-1/#comment-6577 Digital Flower Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:07:38 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/?p=2790#comment-6577 Oh yeah, definitely fall around here. I have found no form of denial that can stop it. The gardens have a particularly beautiful look about them at this time of year. Your pictures are showing that. <em>Thanks, DF! We must be resigned to fall, I guess. Good thing it's so beautiful. -kris</em> Oh yeah, definitely fall around here. I have found no form of denial that can stop it. The gardens have a particularly beautiful look about them at this time of year. Your pictures are showing that.

Thanks, DF! We must be resigned to fall, I guess. Good thing it’s so beautiful. -kris

]]> By: Susan Sims http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/totally-equinoxious/comment-page-1/#comment-6562 Susan Sims Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:27:38 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/?p=2790#comment-6562 It's been fall here for a while. Here, fall starts up in the mountains around us as it's cooler there, so you see fall descending on the valleys here brilliant mottled curtain of the red sugar maples. While the colors descend, the air down here gets a crisp bite to it and everything that dried up a bit during the heat of August flushes out in green and new late-summer growth. By the time the colors hit the valley floors, the mountain show finishes up a shimmering finale of yellow aspen leaves which bathes the forests up there in gold. Can you tell this is my favorite season? <em>Susan, It sounds like your fall is completely worthy of raptures and "favorite" status! Do I remember correctly that you're in Utah? -kris</em> It’s been fall here for a while. Here, fall starts up in the mountains around us as it’s cooler there, so you see fall descending on the valleys here brilliant mottled curtain of the red sugar maples. While the colors descend, the air down here gets a crisp bite to it and everything that dried up a bit during the heat of August flushes out in green and new late-summer growth. By the time the colors hit the valley floors, the mountain show finishes up a shimmering finale of yellow aspen leaves which bathes the forests up there in gold.

Can you tell this is my favorite season?

Susan, It sounds like your fall is completely worthy of raptures and “favorite” status! Do I remember correctly that you’re in Utah? -kris

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