Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Which Way Is Up?

Here are some beautiful annual asters standing straight and tall! They look spectacular!

These asters are beautiful too, but they have fallen and they can't get up. It always amazes me how quickly a fallen plant will turn and head for the sky. One can't dawdle when tying up plants that have been knocked over. In this case I missed the boat completely. The plant sent flower stems upward all along the fallen stalk. In perennials this can be handy for layering a plant, but when it happens to an annual, you get something that looks like this. Still, I have to admire the way plants keep heading upward no matter what.

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