Tomorrow I'll be jetting off to Oklahoma for a conference of garden writers, to return the following week - I hope - with lots of new ideas. It'll be fun to visit gardens in a different part of the country. Maybe these folks will have suggestions for beautiful plants that can withstand the Dust Bowl conditions we've had on the East Coast these last few summers. Will let you know.
Meanwhile, I leave you with an update on the "blinking eyes" asters mentioned in an earlier posting. They were just beginning to open when I wrote that. Now, these big mounds of purple buds are opening by the clusters every day. Thank goodness.
They're a welcome and cheery sight, placed among the spindly sticks that used to be plants in my garden!
So off I go to Route 66 and the heart of the Sooner State. As a friend said recently: HAVE RHINESTONES, WILL TRAVEL.
