September is a rainy month it seems after having had two dry months in a row. The plants are coming back that I thought might have died while we were off having fun in July and August. It has rained at least 3 days last week and it is starting over again this week as Arkansas is near the area where the storm is going through Texas and the way it is swinging on up through other states we are getting some much needed rain!! And we needed it bad.
I hoped that my two Cinnamon Ferns had not died – they really looked dead when we got home, I cut them off to almost nothing and here they are not quite three weeks later:
They look about the size they normally are in the spring when they come back from the winter.
Also as I was checking these out during a break in the rain I found these growing:
and another – these go by various names – I call them Spider Lilies, here is a link to them. I only saw the 4 of them and I know I had at least 16, I wasn’t sure if they bloomed while we were gone or not. If I remember right they normally bloom in August, it might be the dry hot weather delayed them – or I might be remembering totally wrong and they bloom in September!
I have been watching my little hydrangea plants to see if they will come back and they are see these tiny new green leaves sprouting on the branches:
The leaves on the ground from the tree in this area make it look like it is November!
Mushrooms are growing from the new moisture also – aren’t these funky looking:
And we have been seeing a lot of “walking sticks” around here – more than we normally do, I find them interesting bugs to watch:
I tried to grow rhubarb about 3 years ago and found out it doesn’t really do well in the Arkansas heat and pulled up all my plants last year – well look what is growing back too. Two plants of rhubarb – it would be nice if it grew this fall to the point that I could actually get enough to use it. I know this is more of a northern plant – we used to have a large plant of it in Wisconsin when I was a kid and my grandma had a lot of it as well. The plants here have so far only yielded very skinny stalks that never seem to want to get nice and fat as they should be (about the size of celery stalks). They actually sell the plants here in the spring so one would think that they grow here – maybe my location is wrong? I will see what it does before deciding if I will pull it out again.
Now I guess I better get back to work on my Stars for the Star Crazy BOM – I have not been in much of a mood for working on them and have only 4 of the 9 needed finished. I do have all the pieces cut out I just need to get to work on them!
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