Mid-Atlantic Gardening: October...blooms?, 1 by wind

wind wrote:
Stormyla, I think we drive our neighbors crazy by never raking out our beds! Besides the benefits of them decomposing and adding good organic matter to the soil, I was told butterflies lay eggs on leaves and if you rake away the leaves you rake away some of next seasons butterflies.

We have a lot of things blooming now, especially since the weather has been so nice and mild.

Some petunias are making a revival, zinnias, nasturtiums, cannas, four-o'clocks, salvias, coleus and cosmos are still blooming, some sporadic feverfew and foxgloves. We have buds getting ready to open on pineapple sage. I'll try and take a few dahlia photos, they are really the best and most beautiful now.

This was our first year growing tithonia from seed, they are still blooming away!