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A Year in Bloom, book review
Sunday, 22 September 2024
image courtesy Phaidon Press Limited
coming soon, publication date 15 October 2024
Autumn euinox, the halfway point between the summer and winter solstices. Like the spring equinox in March, it is one of only two times of the year when the sun is directly over the Earth's equator and day and night are nearly equal everywhere on Earth.
Leaves on the trees are beginning to show colors other than green. Yellow, that's there all along disguised by green chlorophyll. Dogwoods with a tinge of red as energy is diverted to make anthocyanins.
In my garden there are autumn flowers, very different from the well known tulips and daffodils of spring.
But you won't find the bulb-like corms of autumn crocus, Colchicum bornmuelleri, in the big box stores.
You will need to look in the mail order catalogs. And even then not all will offer colchicums.
Look in Brent and Becky's Bulbs fall catalog for colchicums, and also the tulips.
Regardless of their time to flower, bulbs from spring crocus, hyacinths to tulips and daffodils, summer's lilies and autumn's colchicum are planted in autumn. Advice is always helpful. A Year in Bloom is like an expanded catalog, offering a full page of image and information for each of a diversity of bulbs, corms, and tubers. Review to follow soon.
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