Farewell to Summer Flowers

We experience shorter days in October - with the sun getting up later and setting all too early.  Yet the days themselves are brilliant with vivid colours in the leaves.  Already the Sumac and the Virginia Creeper are orange and red along the roads. Fall bulbs are ready for planting.  I visited the new Van Noort location to pick up my Spring order.  They've moved to a few streets from Brian's Lilycrest Gardens hybridizing field.  What a facility it is.  There are rows and rows of polyhouses that they are going to use to grow roses in the spring.  In the shared production facility, the last of the Gladiolus were being packaged for shipment.  Industrial plant production is very similar to industrial food or material production.  Things moving along conveyer belts with people doing small tasks along the way.  So today's images acknowledge the last of the Gladiolus and the end of our great summer flowering season.

Lilycrest Gardens - Prime Time

My brother, Brian Bergman, has a hybridizing field in St. Catharines where he grows his hybridized lilies.  I was in the field last week, and took these pictures.