You have to give them enough time to regenerate. Depending on growing conditions, I think the time frame is somewhere between 8 to 12 weeks to reset buds and bloom.....yg

Leaflover...I'm so glad I asked you! Seeing is believing...the progression is phenomenal! Your GUac leaves look like they have greater substance than usual but it could just appear that way due to the darker green colour. Don, doesn't that just do it for you? BTW...your Inniswood caught my eye, you enabler, you! LL...it sure makes me crazy, knowing I have to wait at least, what....till spring? to have mine leap? lol. Just kidding around...but really drooling here! I definitely noticed your exquisitely coloured and shaped Fagus as I have a propensity for ANY dark leafed plants but you're right...my eyes "boing-ed" out at that hosta-on-steroids specimen. Stunning. :-) Just so we're clear...you're telling me that my humble version of Guacamole is REALLY gonna look like that any time soon???? Really? Promise? Lol Don and Moc! Notice the two FAT seed pods hanging on the scape? Yepper, I just graduated from Kiddiegarden! Now I'm into another new realm....I don't think I'm ready yet, not by a long shot. I'm just gonna sit in my classroom seat and learn me some more!! This post was edited by josephines67 on Fri, Sep 27, 13 at 1:04

I walked outside to a cool and balmy 67 degrees around 7 a.m. I think our official low was 61 but I slept through that part. From looking at the Minimum Temperature Map, I wonder if Jay was shivering when he went outside this morning? The only downside to this wonderful cool front is all the really bad wild-driven fires, more so in Texas than in Oklahoma though there were some here too, yesterday and with more expected today. Hundreds of homes were lost and there were a few fire-related deaths in Texas. My heart goes out to everyone there. In Love County we do not have a Red Flag Fire Warning, but the Texas County that surrounds my part of Love County on three sides does have one, so I'll be watching the weather and the skies very carefully today. I'm heading outside shortly to mow the grass down about as short as I can. All summer, we mowed it higher than average to shade the ground and help keep the soil more cool and moist. Now that the weather has cooled and gusty winds raise the fire danger even higher, we'll be mowing and weed-eating all day to cut everything down really short. It is a good day to remove the now brown-and-dry cattails from the edges of the dry ponds too. The fires we fought in recent days were so fast-moving that one of the few defenses we have against them is to cut vegetation as short as we can in order to leave less fuel for any wildfires that occur. Our cats and dogs don't know what to think. They were running madly around the property in the cool morning air and seemed slightly baffled by the fact that the weather changed so much so quickly. The hummingbird migration is picking up a lot. I suspect they're being pushed south by the cooler temps. Our feeders are emptying out much more quickly this week than last week. I hope all the folks south of us have their feeders out to help the hummingbirds feed as they make their way across drought-parched Texas. Tracy, Your turn is coming soon. I bet 99 will feel pretty good after all those days you've had in the 110s and higher! Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Today's Minimum Temperature Map

thou't thanked for thy fair photo! But, soft! what variety through yonder photo depicts? Her leaf looks Alpinia, and I who won'dreth which, do note the florescence doth vary from same... Alas! indeed...