Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow . Although it doesn’t feel like fall, with temperatures in the 80’s and 90’s, many plants we associate with autumn, especially in the aster family, are coming into flower. The roads I travel from St. Matthews to Sumter are made beautiful now by drifts of goldenrod. I thought that the scientific name of the genus, Solidago, since it has s-o-l in it, referred to the sun, but apparently the name comes from words about