Rosepink Birthday

Longtime readers of this blog know that my favorite wildflower is Sabatia angularis,
Rosepink or Rose Gentian. Not only is it spectacular, but it smells
like honeysuckle in heaven, with a distant forest fire smoking away
somewhere down beneath the sweetness. Sabatia is a biennial, meaning it perks
along as a small plant for a year before bursting into bloom, going to
seed, dying,