Mid-Atlantic Gardening: END OF SEASON FLOWERS!!!! SEPTEMBER 2014, 5 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Jeff---

I have a really last bloom of the summer on my Kopper King Hibiscus---
this is IT!
I have cut back all the branches and may get some new growth, but not bloom.
To my surprise--this Hibiscus has made 3 seed pods. It never makes them--
as it is a Hybrid (I think).
I will let the seeds ripen and keep them. have NO idea what will grow out of them.

It is also clean up time....Some leaves have started falling from my maples...
My Cuke plants are done--as are some of the Tomato plants.

The glads have yellowing laves--some of them never bloomed at all?????
YES! Fall is in the air!

1&2--The last bloom of summer on my KK Hibiscus.

3&4--The 1st Amaranth is so stately and tall! Came up on its own!
Different from the one on the other side of my house.
That one's "blooming stems" all hang down--gracefully..

5--The Coleus seem to own all the property around here...
They are everywhere--and HUGE! Especially the speckled one--(Carnival)--it is bizarre!