How about more flower pictures?

Anybody want to post some late summer/early fall garden pictures? I took several pictures of plants in pots yesterday.

Here's another one. I throw all kinds of plants in to big pots. There are two kinds of basil, rose thyme, fennel, cosmos, snapdragons, geraniums, marigolds, salvia, etc. Earlier in the year I had cornflowers and chard.

I have fun with the pots.

I've been moving some perennials from pots in to the ground. We'll see how they do over the winter. This is Huechera Lemon Chiffon, that I'm not sure how to spell.

Here is my favorite impatien of the summer posing with blood orange soda.

And a favorite coleus with friends.

Nice pots roybird. I'm SO trying coleus again. I'm hoping to have a new planter box built next summer up against the house which I think they will like.

Yes, very nice and yummy, Roybird..... I also like to put odd things together in big pots. It is a style of approach that has always appealed to me.

Most of my containers are definitely past their photogenic peak, but if I frame it just right there are some pretty places still.

I really like how the basil and marigolds do together.

and the dill going to seed

Nice, Kyla!

Thanks, Roybird. I am still having way too much fun with this camera. ;-)

Here is one I feel is quite autumnal in mood:

I call that one 'Solitude'. Perhaps I ought to call this one 'Comp'ny'.

Very beautiful!

Second bloom for my honeysuckle vines.

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Second bloom for my dianthus (which I bought as supposed annuals 4 years ago).

First time my blue mist spirea are blooming! (carypoteris 'first choice')

second bloom for my coreopsis (babysun, second generation plant).

Oh how pretty, Jude! I am considering trying to establish one of t hose colorful honeysuckles in a container on my deck next year as the two vines I tried did not do what I h ad hoped in the way of creating a screen.

and that dianthus color, wowie zowie! love it to pieces!

My 'annual' dianthus is quite flourescent! It also stays green almost all winter here. The honeysuckle took a few years to get going. I've got them in the ground trained on a trellis attached to the fence. It still struggles some - probably because I'm not good about watering anything.

Very pretty, Jude. I have heard that honeysuckle takes a long time to get established.

Yes, very pretty indeed! My honeysuckle that I bought earlier this year and had growing in a pot got powdery mildew, had to cut tons of it off... moved it into the ground in a different location, it's still hanging on but we'll see. I hope it makes it, I love those honeysuckles!

mine have a little mildew - but hey - it rained way more than normal this year and both of them are still alive! I'm always glad when I don't kill things in the garden. I can live with the powdery mildew if the plant can.

I found a powdery mildew concoction here on D.G. one time that sounded weird but actually worked. It was a spray made up of water and milk. I don't remember the proportions. Maybe on the rose forum somewhere.

It works for me too roybird ^_^ I do one part milk to two parts water. It doesn't seem to kill the existing mildew but it keeps it from spreading for me.

I'm glad someone else tried it! I can't remember if it killed the mildew on mine or just kept it from spreading. I'm thinking maybe both. A good recipe.

Good info, thanks for sharing! I never dealt with powdery mildew in AZ, for reasons that are obvious... ^_^

Do you spray it with a windex bottle or do you use one of those garden sprayers with a tank? Seems a garden sprayer would get clogged up with milk.

I just use the my cheapo plant mister bottle as you suggest paj. After all no chemicals ,so no worries. Mist, mist, mist.

Here is a photo from a couple of months ago that I really like...

I'm not sure who rules: the plant or the sky. That's why I luv it. Great pic plutodrive.

Agreed, dahlia. The plant and the sky are really magnificent. Good job, plutodrive!

That is a nice picture, Plutodrive.

Beautiful.

Lately I seem to have few words, but lots of pictures. I know who to hold accountable for t his state of affairs, too, you rocky mountain forumers you.

here are a few flowers

cosmos bore me this year except when they do stuff like that.

I may already have posted this shot of vetch, but I really like it

and those mission bells keep doing their thing even still

Pretty!!!

Very pretty! Things are definitely slowing down here flower-wise. Got a few dahlias, various plants in pots and finally the New Mexico sunflowers are blooming in time for Fiesta. We've had mostly cloudy weather and rain the last few days.

LOVE that dahlia! The air has changed here... it feels different, Autumn is beginning. I hope she is slow and lazy about it, and that Indian Summer makes an appearance. I noticed the hillside along the Dolores River has started to take on color... mostly the ground cover, but it is suddenly shades of crimson and yellow.