My favorite season of the year.
Hello, again!
Next Sunday the 22nd is the Autumn Equinox in Wichita at about 7:44 in the morning. There are two equinoxes every year – in September and March – when the sun shines directly on the equator and the length of day and night is nearly equal. The September equinox occurs the moment the sun crosses the celestial equator – the imaginary line in the sky above Earth’s equator – from north to south. This happens either on September 22, 23, or 24 of every year. While we often refer to the start of fall at Labor Day, it’s actually this event when the season changes.
Fall is a great time to get outside and enjoy not only the sights and sounds of the season, but also the smells and tastes of the season. Here are a few I enjoy most:
The aroma of fresh popped popcorn at football games adds to the sounds of the marching bands, the crowds cheering and the announcer at the games. I welcome the season when I’m wearing a long sleeve tee in the cool evenings and mornings.
There is nothing like sitting on the patio in the evening with a glass of wine while enjoying the sight and smell of New Mexico piñon pine burning in a chimenea. There are many tastes of fall, and a tradition at Johnson’s for many years has been adding Aspen Mulling Spices to wine or cider for a special fall beverage.
A late summer aroma for us is our Hatch Green Chile, and it lingers into fall at our stores. We are currently roasting up the final bushels of chile and will continue until they are soon gone.
It wouldn’t be fall for me without the fall color of our landscape plants. From the sumac that brings in the first red color, to the late changing trees, our region has a great show of color and our nurseries are especially full of beautiful trees this year.
We’ve grown hardy garden mums for as long as I can remember. Decades ago, we grew field mums at our 13th Street location. Today we grow all of our mums in containers for ease of growing and transplanting. We have colors of perennial mums from white to pink, purple, red, yellow, bronze and orange!
Next week our Pansy Mania Days start, September 20-29th. We have a great selection of pansies now to plant for 3 seasons of color (yes, our pansies are grown to overwinter!) I encourage you to mix in a few violas with your pansies; you’ll be amazed at how they perform in the garden.
We also recently received our spring flowering bulbs from the Netherlands. The bulb harvest was light this year, so if you’re needing large quantities of bulbs this year I’d advise you to come see us soon, and we’ll get with Piet to get your bulb needs covered.
I hope you are able to get out and enjoy my favorite season of the year!
Your friend in the garden,
Marty Johnson
Owner - Johnson's Garden Centers
Next Sunday the 22nd is the Autumn Equinox in Wichita at about 7:44 in the morning. There are two equinoxes every year – in September and March – when the sun shines directly on the equator and the length of day and night is nearly equal. The September equinox occurs the moment the sun crosses the celestial equator – the imaginary line in the sky above Earth’s equator – from north to south. This happens either on September 22, 23, or 24 of every year. While we often refer to the start of fall at Labor Day, it’s actually this event when the season changes.
Fall is a great time to get outside and enjoy not only the sights and sounds of the season, but also the smells and tastes of the season. Here are a few I enjoy most:
The aroma of fresh popped popcorn at football games adds to the sounds of the marching bands, the crowds cheering and the announcer at the games. I welcome the season when I’m wearing a long sleeve tee in the cool evenings and mornings.
There is nothing like sitting on the patio in the evening with a glass of wine while enjoying the sight and smell of New Mexico piñon pine burning in a chimenea. There are many tastes of fall, and a tradition at Johnson’s for many years has been adding Aspen Mulling Spices to wine or cider for a special fall beverage.
A late summer aroma for us is our Hatch Green Chile, and it lingers into fall at our stores. We are currently roasting up the final bushels of chile and will continue until they are soon gone.
It wouldn’t be fall for me without the fall color of our landscape plants. From the sumac that brings in the first red color, to the late changing trees, our region has a great show of color and our nurseries are especially full of beautiful trees this year.
We’ve grown hardy garden mums for as long as I can remember. Decades ago, we grew field mums at our 13th Street location. Today we grow all of our mums in containers for ease of growing and transplanting. We have colors of perennial mums from white to pink, purple, red, yellow, bronze and orange!
Next week our Pansy Mania Days start, September 20-29th. We have a great selection of pansies now to plant for 3 seasons of color (yes, our pansies are grown to overwinter!) I encourage you to mix in a few violas with your pansies; you’ll be amazed at how they perform in the garden.
We also recently received our spring flowering bulbs from the Netherlands. The bulb harvest was light this year, so if you’re needing large quantities of bulbs this year I’d advise you to come see us soon, and we’ll get with Piet to get your bulb needs covered.
I hope you are able to get out and enjoy my favorite season of the year!
Your friend in the garden,
Marty Johnson
Owner - Johnson's Garden Centers
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