NATURE TAKES ITS TIME

Over last winter, a falling tree crashed into the garden fence, behaving with intolerable rudeness to a yellow day lilly. And so, over the course of day lilly blooming season, no yellow day lillies from this traumatized plant. But the tree was cleaned up, strips of barks it shed left to enrich the soil. And the day lilly slowly recharged itself. And now–lo and behold! A few tenacious yellow day lilly blossoms to enliven this torrid September week.