No Gentian this year. We have been watching for this year's fringed gentian, and there is no sign of it. There are no plants in our patch that we can identify, and none in the Cornell land either. We have seen people from the Cornell Plantations going to look in the main area, but there have been no blue flowers at all. I don't know what killed it, but I would guess its something with the strange weather we've had this year. Too much rain, too cold in August, or maybe even something about last winter's weather. As a biennial, it has to survive through two years, but hopefully this year's non-blooming plants made it to bloom next year.

I wonder if this is a sign of things to come. I hope not.