Here goes .... what's blooming?
Perennials in the garden setting: Show us your pics! #3
Gentians! Here's fringed.
Bottle.
Scabra.
Another shot of scabra.
septemfida x paradoxa.
boojum, looks great!!!!!!! Here's another in my blooming yard.
Such great colors against the dark green!
Reine des Violettes, salvia, and penstemon (9/19/2006)
Was gardening this AM, duh, what else do we do..., and took some shots of: Crape Myrtle.
And my "jackpot get something free in your box from Parks" dahlia.
AND, oh well, had to share this one! My (edit) Green Diamonds. Ivory Palace is cute too.
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A border i call my big border........
Nice color for fall, Mark. Here's part of my front bed. I love that these gerberas bloomed all season for me. I know not perennial, but the sters are.
Tell me about your yellow bulbs-is that now? I have fall crocuses blooming.
Love these yellow flowers-helianthus? coreopsis?
Close up.
Half my asters are sick this year, but half are not! Here are the roadside ones I put in the garden-tall ones.
These are not as tall and this pic doesn't do them justice. They are cyclamen not this wimpy pink.
A nice pink.
Here are russian asters (white), blue mist shrub and the cyclamen asters.
Fabulous Pic's! My place is kinda ratty looking these days. I finally got a chance
to mow the grass today (even though it was still wet.)
Here's a picture of two very pretty thugs duking it out in my side yard.
Tam
How about a cute little osteospermum?
Though the picture is a bit washed out, I thought I'd post a hybrid of two
nierembergia's I'd planted last year in this bed - Mont Blanc (white) and
??? (I forget the name of the blue variety). I got this white with pale blue
center amongst the mostly white volunteers. I love this perennial!
Tam
I still have Stellas blooming ... thought they'd be gone by now. Edit: where are those stellas?
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I still have lots of plants that are sporadically blooming (many repeaters), but also there are annuals or plants that are not hardy in zone 6 that still are looking great. I will eventually transplant these to my greenhouse beds for the winter. Impatience, nasturtiums, African daisies, gazania, zinnia, marigolds, cosmos, scaevola, fuchsia will all just keep chugging along in my GH. If they get tired I just whack them back and hope for some early spring color when they leaf out again or send them to compost heaven. I have several lilies that I ordered on sale in mid Aug which are about to open. A fall treat, but I wish they were orange not pink! Also, I have a lot of buds on rose bushes to bloom if we can cheat mother nature. I was going to start planting bulbs this weekend but the ground is too warm still. Patti
I have to get some gentians! bbrook..what is the very dark flower? 11th picture I think
Levilyla, the eleventh one down is a morning glory which I started from seed (Picotee Blue), but the very dark one below it is a chocolate cosmos (atrosanguineus). I will have to dig them both to winter them over. I doubt that the MG will like being transplanted, but worth a try. Patti
Patti, what a lot of great color you still have with October coming up hard on us! that chocolate cosmos is great.
peg, I thought my stella had given up, but we had a warmer day yesterday with a little sun and it's blooming again.
my roses look great. I've been bringing some in every day because you never know when the frost is going to take them.
NY aster 'Wood's Pink'
gram ~a girl~
Hi Patti,
Miss you, girl. Fun to see whatcha got blooming there. What's your toad lily's name? I have two blooming now. Kohaku and Togen. Here's Kohaku.
Here are my asters today. Love that wood's pink, grampapa!
This tall one is more periwinkle than I can capture.
Oh wow boojum what a wonderful garden you have! Pretty asters of all colors!
grampapa, thx. Don't "deadhead" tho, you'll run into "root deprevations." lol
Here's another bloom... my crepemyrtle again,
My chin dropped when I saw those pictures Boojum!!! Wow... your place is glorious!
Grampapa - I love the trio of pink.
It was a cold & grey drizzly day here. And so nice during the work week. I want to get
outside and play in the dirt....
Tam
oooooo aaahhhhhh... we cross posted pegdog. Love that crepemyrtle!
It is a great color. It's only 2 years old. I am training it to "tree" and not "bush" like some others.
I've always wished I had a crepe myrtle and a camillia but they're not happy here in -20 degrees. The nerve! Thanks for enjoying my garden! I wish everyone could come on over today. It was so pretty here. We are heading for fall foliage soon. I love October and it's my birthday month to boot! (I hate in September when the blooms start being more scarce and I'm focused on next year. But then I get over it and enjoy the fall.) Here's another big garden near the house in the fog earlier this week.
BTW, I had to cut several of my asters to the ground-they had some very bad mildew/mold/virus and the flowers never bloomed on very well established ones. Has anyone else ever had trouble with asters? I thought they were extremely hardy so I was shocked.
peg, that crepemyrtle is positively electric.
boojum, I am in love with your gardens. what grows on your pretty arbor?
gram ~a girl~