WELCOME SWEET SEPTEMBER! (Garden Bloggers' Muse Day) ~ 'INTRICATE AND LOVELY' (Hydrangea macrophylla)

"A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom."

~ Toni Morrison

Hydrangea macrophylla

Gifts from my garden

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I have loved flowers that fade,

Within those magic tents,

Rich hues have marriage had made,

With sweet memoried scents.

(Robert Seymour Bridges)

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Note: Drying Hydrangeas Naturally

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But now in September the garden has cooled,

and with it my possessiveness.

The sun warms my back instead of beating on my head ...

The harvest has dwindled,

and I have grown apart from

the intense midsummer relationship

that brought it on.

Robert Finch

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