ROLLING HILLS GARDEN CENTER
ROLLING HILLS GARDEN CENTER
VILLAGE GALLERY FLORIST
SEPTEMBER QUOTES
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"By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer." -Helen Hunt Jackson
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"September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn." -Rowland E. Robinson
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"The old summer's-end melancholy nips at my heels. There's no school to go back to; no detail of my life will change come the onset of September; yet still, I feel the old trepidation." -Sara Baume
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"There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green, and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that it is all about to end, as if summer was holding its breath, and when it let it out again, it would be autumn." -Sharyn McCrumb
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"It was a lovely afternoon—such an afternoon as only September can produce when summer has stolen back for one more day of dream and glamour." -L.M. Montgomery
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"September was a 30-days long goodbye to summer, to the season that left everybody both happy and weary of the warm, humid weather and the exhausting but thrilling adventures. It didn't feel like fresh air either, it made me suffocate. It was like the days would be dragging some kind of sickness, one that we knew wouldn't last, but made us uncomfortable anyway. The atmosphere felt dusty and stifling." -Lea Malot
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"We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost." -Henry Rollins
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"Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul...but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October." -Peggy Toney Horton
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"The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress, like moving on." -Lauren Olive
SEPTEMBER'S SPECIAL DAYS
SEPT 1 FORGIVINESS DAY
SEPT 2 BEARD DAY
SEPT 3 PASTOR'S SPOUSE DAY
SEPT 4 WILDLIFE DAY
SEPT 5 CHEESE PIZZA DAY
SEPT 6 READ A BOOK DAY
SEPT 7 BEAR LOVER'S DAY
SEPT 8 STAR TREK DAY
SEPT 9 TEDDY BEAR DAY
SEPT 10 GRANDPARENTS DAY
SEPT 11 MAKE YOUR BED DAY
SEPT 12 CHOCOLATE MILKSHAKE DAY
SEPT 13 PEANUT DAY
SEPT 14 SOBER DAY
SEPT 15 CHEESE TOAST DAY
SEPT 16 MAYFLOWER DAY
SEPT 17 CONSTITUTION DAY
SEPT 18 CHEESEBURGER DAY
SEPT 19 TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY
SEPT 20 PEPPERONI PIZZA DAY
SEPT 21 PAW PAW DAY
SEPT 22 ICE CREAM CONE DAY
SEPT 23 AUTUMN EQUINOX
SPET 24 SINGLES DAY
SEPT 25 DAUGHTER'S DAY
SEPT 26 PANCAKE DAY
SEPT 27 CORNED BEEF HASH DAY
SEPT 28 GOOD NEIGHBOR DAY
SEPT 29 COFFEE DAY
SEPT 30 CHEWING GUM DAY
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Ten Things To Do In Your Garden In September
1. Dig in! Add perennials and spring-blooming (fall-planted) bulbs to your garden. Perennials planted in the fall can establish healthy roots, resulting in bigger growth and earlier blooms in the first season. Bulbs like Tulips, Daffodils, Allium, and more need the overwintering period in order to bloom in the spring.
2. Make notes in your garden journal. Take note of what grew well, and areas where you’d like to make changes. This will be a big help when you are planning your garden over the winter months.
3. Weeding. Be sure to keep up with weeding. Diligent weeding helps prevent weeds from going to seed in your garden, and helps prevent disease in next season’s garden.
4. Stop pruning and fertilizing. At this point in the season, pruning and fertilizing only promotes new green growth that most likely will not survive through the winter.
5. Encourage annuals to self-seed. Stop deadheading in September and let the flowers go to seed. Annual Poppies, Zinnias, Sunflowers, and more will drop their seeds and, in the right conditions, can come back next year. The seeds also provide a treat to feed birds.
Leave seed heads standing to feed birds over winter.
Encourage annuals to self seed by leaving flowers to go to seed, rather than deadheading.
6. Leave seed heads standing. Perennials include Echinacea, Sedum, Ornamental Grasses, and Clematis standing to provide habitat for pollinators and food for birds over the winter months. These also provide texture and visual interest to the winter garden.
7. Clean up plants as they fade. Cut back any perennial that is diseased and dispose of the trimmings in the trash, rather than your compost pile, to prevent the spread of the disease. Cut back yellowed foliage on perennials such as Daylilies, Iris, Peonies, Bee Balm, and more.
8. Divide and conquer perennials that spread. Dig up and divide Daylilies, Iris, Hostas, and more in September if they have become overcrowded or outgrown the space. Learn More: How To Divide Plants This Fall
9. Mulch. Adding a layer of mulch in your garden beds to provide a nice layer of protection to prevent soil erosion, add some organic matter to the soil, and protect plants from snow and ice over the winter months.
10. Plant cover crops. Build your garden soil for next year by adding quick-growing cover crops. Plant Clover, Vetch, and Austrian Winter Pea as “green manures” to help build nutrients and get the soil ready for next spring’s planting.
The more you accomplish in September, the less work you’ll have to do in spring!
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If you’re thinking of adding a pollinator garden to your landscape, try to prep the area and get as much planted as you can this fall. Come spring, the plants will be much larger and that area will be primed and ready to add in annuals and other varieties.
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The more weeding and mulching you do in September, the less weeds you’ll have to deal with in the spring. Take advantage of the gorgeous weather that September brings and get yourself in a great position to start next season off running.
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From https://www.americanmeadows.com/content/september-gardening-chores website.
The Autumn Equinox
1. Second Equinox of the Year
The September equinox is on or around September 22, while the first equinox of the year, the March Equinox, takes place on or around March 21 every year.
2. Say Goodbye to Summer...
...in the Northern Hemisphere. Astronomically, the September equinox is the autumnal, or fall, equinox marking the end of summer and the beginning of fall (autumn). The fall season ends on the December solstice, when astronomical winter begins.
Meteorological vs. astronomical seasons
For meteorologists, on the other hand, fall in the Northern Hemisphere begins about 3 weeks before the September equinox on September 1 and ends on November 30.
3. And Welcome Spring
In the Southern Hemisphere, the September equinox is the vernal (spring) equinox.
The September equinox is also known as the vernal or spring equinox in the Southern Hemisphere and is considered by astronomers as the first day of spring there.
4. A Moment in Time
Equinoxes & solstices local times
The staircases at the main Maya pyramid, El Castillo, at Chichen Itza, Mexico, are built at a carefully calculated angle which makes it look like a snake of sunlight slithers down the stairs the moment the equinox occurs.
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Equinoxes are not day-long events, even though many choose to celebrate all day. Instead, they occur at the moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator—the imaginary line in the sky above Earth’s equator.
At this instant, Earth's rotational axis is neither tilted away from nor toward the Sun.
Earth's axial tilt is the reason
In 2023, the Sun crosses the celestial equator from north to south on September 23, at 06:50 UTC. Because of time zone differences, the equinox takes place on September 22, 2023 at locations that are at least 6 hours and 50 minutes behind UTC. These include cities in western areas of the United States and Canada.
5. The Date Varies
While the September equinox usually occurs on September 22 or 23, it can very rarely fall on September 21 or September 24. A September 21 equinox has not happened for several millennia. However, in the 21st century, it will happen twice—in 2092 and 2096. The last September 24 equinox occurred in 1931, the next one will take place in 2303.
The equinox dates vary because of the difference between how the Gregorian calendar defines a year (365 days) and the time it actually takes for Earth to complete its orbit around the Sun (about 365 and 1/4 days).
This means that each September equinox occurs about 6 hours later than the previous year's September equinox. This eventually moves the date by a day.
6. Equal Day and Night...
Most locations on Earth do not experience equal day and night on September equinox.
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The term equinox comes from the Latin words aequus, meaning equal and nox, meaning night. This has led to the common misconception that everybody on Earth experiences equal day and night—12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night time—on the day of the September equinox.
7. ...But Not Quite
In reality, most places on Earth enjoy more than 12 hours of daylight on this day. This has two reasons: the way sunrise and sunset are defined and the atmospheric refraction of sunlight.
Locations that are not on the equator do get to experience equal day and night twice a year, usually a few days before or after the equinoxes. The dates for this event, which is also known as equilux, depend on a location's latitude—those south of the equator celebrate it a few days before the equinox, people in the Northern Hemisphere reach the equilux a few days after the equinox.
8. Shorter Time Between Moonrises
The Harvest Moon is also sometimes called Corn Moon, after the corn harvest in the months of fall.
The full Moon closest to the September equinox, the Harvest Moon, is astronomically special. This is because the time from one moonrise to the next becomes shorter around this period.
On average, the Moon rises about 50 minutes later every day in a lunar month—the time period between two Full Moons or two New Moons. Around the Harvest Moon, the time difference between two successive moonrises decreases to less than 50 minutes for a few days.
Known as the Harvest Moon Effect, this phenomenon occurs due to the low angle the Moon's orbit around Earth makes with the horizon during this time of year.
The reverse effect occurs in the Southern Hemisphere, where the Moon rises more than 50 minutes later than on the previous day.
9. Prepare for Northern Lights
As the September equinox rolls by, the chances to see the aurora borealis display increases for those located at high Northern Hemisphere latitudes. According to NASA, the equinoxes are prime time for Northern Lights—geomagnetic activities are twice more likely to take place in the spring and fall time, than in the summer or winter.
10. Celebrated Around the World
Many cultures around the world hold feasts and celebrate festivals and holidays to mark the September equinox.
