Given the number of people who walk,
roller blade and ride by, I'm surprised there aren't more accidents
between people going somewhere and people enamored with the plants.
I
really am naive about biology - if flowers are the
stage before
seeds, why don't flowers only occur in the spring, last a short period
time, and the plants spend the summer building seeds, fruit and
stalks? None the less, flowers continue. David suggested
flowers might continue throughout the season because of competition - to
many flowers all at once would overwhelm and then starve the
pollinators. Whatever the reason, I'm happy to see flowers late
into the summer.
