What's Blooming in Your Garden VII

The Hydrangea pictured above is from burger kings garden, where i work, and garden! :) some of the other hydrangeas I've shown are my own in my yard, but from time to time i post Whats blooming at the Bk. :) i think the blue eyed grass we planted is still blooming too! I'll have to look tomorrow.
Here is my sedum, maybe autumn joy? I love this color and hope to get a few more. :) this was from a plant cycle meeting so i had no idea what color it would be. I'd like a very fire red one i saw recently driving by someone garden.

birder17, I like you'd be interested to know more about asters and its culture. OH81. Love that sedum. Once upon a time I have had 'autumn joy' in the garden as well.

Here is some winding down of color in the garden. Will be back with more pix after dindin-- that's in short for dinner. lol

The above pic. was that of a flowering maple, abutilon. But which cultivar I'm not sure.

More of the Pineapple sage. A Fall blooming variety.

Even though the eastern U.S. has a lot of acid soil, a hydrangea can bloom pink if it is against a house because of lime leaching from the foundation. I have one on each side of a handicappers ramp at the museum. This year one turned pink. I think it picked up some lime from surrounding soil that needed it for what I was growing there.

I live in alkaline land, woodspirit 1. When I moved in the ph was 7.9. Years of composting change clay over hardpan into lovely soil, but I still have to acidify plants like bayberries and fothergillas.

I understand that the Engelmann's aster blooms in the summer. It has white flowers and something that at least looks like it pops up in my yard in summer..

Same here donna! I literally live on a limestone slab in front of a limestone quarry. CLR is my best friend since we're on well water. Lol just spent hours cleaning my coffee mai am hoping to get some gigantic containers for a few hydrangeas so i can have a blue one. :)

Our soil is known to be acidic. But, in my very own garden. I've to confess, I haven't checked its pH in years. Some of my hydrangeas turned pink, other blue, and every spectrum in between. lol But that was early in the season. Right now every single one of them are about to turn bronze and goes into hypernation--so to speak. I'm so glad that they're now just reaching their peak of blooms else where. See how we can learn from one another in different locals?

Sporadical late bloomer, here is an unknown rose.

Mollineaux, Chrysler Imperial, Fredrick Mistral, The McCarthy, and Carefree Beauty roses are all still in bloom here. It's so fun to look out and see all those big beautiful blooms--not to mention putting your nose in them! Ahhhh

What a treat! I was just given the most amazing plant by a couple who are moving overseas who gave me this plant.. I think it's a type of epiphyte, but not a bromeliad. It's been blooming for months. I need to do some research.

Let's try that again!

That looks like an Aechmea, and it is a Bromeliad.

I have other bromeliads, and they are much simpler looking. I wondered if this was from the same family, and now i know.

Thanks!

The exotic bromeliads are quite stunning beauty. I've what is known as 'Queen's Tears' and I just love those colorful blooms.

Garden Mum, second year. :)

Oh, they make me nostalgic. Mums were my first venture into gardening, in 1995!

Donna, that bromeliad is pretty cool!

I feel really lucky!

This is my Rudbeckia Cherokee sunset, which I have grown from seed. I planted them in pots, so I can bring them in when cold comes

Black and blue salvia, I got 6 of them on the distressed table, 5 is doing well, hope they come back next year. Dos anyone knows if they loose leafs in the winter, or stay green??

this is Lantana Athens Rose, it is a upright lantana, it have not stoped blooming since I got 4 on sale , planted them against the fence it will get 3-4 feet tall.

This year I discovered purple Veronica, coreopsis and Angelonia. They all done well in the heat and the dry wether. Next year I will have Pink Veronica, called First love, I got 6 the other day on sale.

They say if you can do it , it is not braging, so I am sending a picture of Agastache grape nectar, they are still small, I bought 6 on sale, (sales been god to me this year.) hope next year will be in full bloom with the pink lantana, I planted them close together.

Kisela, you have a wonderful eye for sales! You got great plants.

Hi everyone, I'm going to share a series of photos tittle "What's Blooming, but not in MY garden". Hope you'll will enjoy them. From a nature walk I visited this morning.

Morning Glory that stays open right onto mid day?

Here are a few plants blooming in my woodland garden.
This is rabdosia. Just started blooming.
Usually blue, but there are white and lavender cultivars.

This is a new cyclamen for me, cyclamen mirabile.
I've just had it for 1 year. It's blooming now.
It's a smaller plant than c. hederifolium.
I like the 'shredded petal' look.

This is a hardy coleus, plectranthus kameba.
I've had it for about 5 yrs. It's perfectly hardy here and has a late bloom (now).
It reseeds a little, but so far not a nuisance.

This is a woodland aster (aster diveraticus).
Nice to be able to grow asters in the woods.
Not the greatest picture, but gives an idea of the bloom.
Flowers are smaller, not as showy as the sunny boys.

Finally, this is a japanese woodland perennial, leucosceptrum japonicum.
Maybe not the showiest of plants, but for this time of year, nice to have any bloom.

MG and Goldenrods.

Robin, I'm so glad you've shared that photo of aster diveraticus. I just purchased that very plant from the nature center which proceed will help maintaining the great work there.

More of the Morning Glories.

Here goes some more woodland asters.

Here is the mentioned aster divaricatus;

Love Lisabees oregano pictured near top of this thread. And Lily, the double blooming coneflower is amazing. My favorite rose is Double Delight and this picture shows the last bloom of this season; we had a hard frost 3 weeks ago so lucky to get this one. Hoya and my new garden hat for contrast.