September 2026

Dear Neil, several years ago I was given three potted chrysanthemums after a special event. I planted them into my perennial garden. They always bloom very late in the fall. I’m already seeing potted garden mums showing up in nurseries in bud and bloom. Why the big difference in flowering time?

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Week of September 13-19 Book one of 17, the first novel in the New York Times best-selling series The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher, takes the reader on a journey through magical Chicago through the eyes of professional wizard Harry Dresden.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope continues to find exciting things throughout the universe. Using the telescope, a team of scientists led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) identified a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s known satellites to 29.

Birthday The “Ice Giant,” as the planet Uranus is referred to, was observed by the Hubble Space Telescope at the same time that the New Horizons spacecraft observed the planet. This dual observation allowed scientists and researchers to interpret the data sent back by New Horizons..

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