With the sun setting and a frost advisory out tonight for the first time this autumnal season, this colony of evening primrose (Oenothera biennis) digs in by the Tennessee River ready for the chill. Call them defiant.
Although they appear somewhat delicate, primroses are tough colonizers making the most out of lonesome ground. They thrive in poor even disturbed soil that's been recently cleared like the rock-filled riprap along the new Cherokee Farm Greenway near my home.
Called "evening" because each blossom is ephemeral, their four bilobed yellow petals open late in the day and will be gone by noon tomorrow to be replaced the next evening by another flower.
A cold wind is moving in on this dainty evening as it seems to suggest...
Bring it on.
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