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| Japanese maple headed for the Terrace. |
Well, we're past Labor Day and in the home stretch of summer even though it will be a while before autumn officially arrives -- despite the local news media's insistence that when the thoroughbreds stop running at Saratoga Race Course summer is over.
The first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere this year doesn't arrive until Monday, September 22, when the autumnal equinox takes place. That's when the Earth's axis is not tilted toward or away from the sun, resulting in nearly equal day and night hours globally.
On the Terrace, we're in the final segments of the growing season, a rather unsatisfactory one this year given the ongoing lack of rainfall that has left us with brown swatches of our lawns and some stunting of the growth of shrubs and flowers because of the sparsity of precipitation.
Nevertheless, this week we did see lawn mowing as well as application of a non-pesticide fertilizer. And, in the coming days, we'll see the planting of a Bloodgood Japanese Maple in the landscaped circle near the mailbox gazebo to help visually fill in the area after removal of several dead/dying trees.
That tree, selected and purchased after communication among THCA President Bill Dowd, Grounds Committee chair Ned Alaskey, and the indefatigable Susan McCabe, is a fast-growth sapling that in a relatively short time will fill in the visual vacancy in that area.
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