Ok here's one for this month...
blooming in september
Mostly, I'm stalking butterflies lately. Like Ardesia, I had a hard time getting the Giant Swallowtail to sit still. Reading the butterfly forum I'm very jealous; people in Texas are posting pictures of bunches of GSTs puddling and drinking. I was happy with my one!
I have oodles of Gulf Fritillaries, though. And quite a few Sulfurs. And right and cue, because it is September 1st, the first blooms on my pineapple sage have opened. Sulfurs loose their minds over pineapple sage. I can have a dozen or more fluttering above it once the pineapple sage is in full bloom.
Borders: There are worse things thant oodles of Gulf Frits! :) Nice shots!
This Ixora picture is a cheat really, because although it's blooming now, I can't take credit since I just
got it this morning. (It was 99 cents - how could I resist?)
Anyone got Ixora growing outside round here? If, so, what do you do with it over the winter? And do you have it in sun, shade, or in-between?
Deb
Great pix! I've been doing some stalking too.
I was happy to get to see these today.
Zephyranthes citrina
Zephyranthes candida
This Caryopteris surprised me by springing up in an odd place. From seed? I grew some C. incana from seed a couple of years ago and lost what was planted out overwinter.
This guy posed for me while I was making my morning rounds.
Chamthy: I love those Rain Lilies. Nice shots of them, too.
I have candida, but that citrina is really pretty! Mine started to appear after the rain we got from TS Fay week before last.
Deb
Z. citrina has flowered less for me than candida. I bought Z. primulina this Spring and hope it will be a good one- flowers are a softer yellow. I want to try some of the new hybrids that Plant Delights is selling now. They look amazing.
I just went out to look for butterflies- too hot to do much in midafternoon, right?
Finally a Monarch
Another pic of the same butterfly- it's in there but you probably have to click on the image to see it.
The hummers are nonstop,lol. I don't even have any feeders.
They must be stocking up for migration time. :) or should it be :(. I hate to see them go.
Nice pics, everyone!
Shari - send me a DMail to let me know what types of rain lilies you have; I will see if I have some others I can share with you.
My favorite is 'Grandjax' (a hybrid of Z. grandiflora and Z. 'Ajax (which is Z. candida x citrina)). Lovely flowers and the best for reblooming. Note that it's sterile and does not form viable seeds - but the bulbs offset nicely. Pic from today:
And now I will show a some of my crappy-looking brugs. I used to be really into brugs and I could show you spectacular pictures from a couple of years ago... but last summer's exceptionally hot, dry weather really took a toll on my enthusiasm. This year I have just let them be (no spraying or special pampering) and most are not doing very well. I do finally have a lot of buds on 'Pink Beauty' so if the bugs leave her alone I may have a nice display in a week or two.
Here's 'Miss Emily McKenzie' - a bit wilted and pale from the heat and the cucumber beetles have been nibbling.
Here's 'Creamsickle' - when the weather is ideal it will have much better flower form but now they're a bit deformed (probably doesn't help that it's being overrun by Salvia guarantica).
Clematis terniflora - I like it but it tends to take over. I pulled out most of it this spring. This is a rouge seedling in a climbing rose.
Senna corymbosa - just starting. If all goes well it will put on quite a show in a couple of weeks.
my senna is about to go too!
this is my first year with it
Painted Lady. This has been a great year for butterflies -- we're practically overrun with them this year!
Common Buckeye
tom, what is S. corymbosa's growth habit? is it evergreen for you?
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
From this morning
Pink Moon Vine, Ipomoea macrorhiza
P.S. Great butterfly pic sweetbay!
Trent - Senna corymbosa is sort of a sprawling shrub. Mine is about 6ft tall x 6ft wide. It might be evergreen for you but here the foliage and even the tips of the branches are killed by the first hard freeze. That also kills most of the seed pods while they are still green so I don't have a problem with too many seedlings (I have heard that in some climates it tends to self-seed prolifically). In a mild winter it gets maybe 6" of tip die-back, in a hard winter it can be 1-2ft. However it always grows back - in early spring I just cut out all the dead parts and shape it up a little. This spring I cut it back by about 2 ft so it wouldn't get out of control.
ok thanks just wanted to know what to expect
I've been over run by oleander moths. I don't have any oleander but someones is getting eaten up. I had probably 10-12 moths on my butter fly bush today. Couldn't get a good picture of them, they were flying around everywhere.
i think those ar my moths... been having them real bad over here
Those oleander moths look wild! I hadn't seen one before.
Well come on down, I have about 5 million I would be happy to share with you. Trouble is the moths are so pretty I hate to BT them. The colors are so striking.
Seedling dahlia.
I don't know how I would kill them off without killing off all the butterflies and bees. I don't want to any ways.
Sweetbay: Very pretty color, that dahlia.
if you think the moths are wild, come to my house and look a a beanch covered in the caterpillars
The Bidens are starting to bloom!
Noid spiderwort
Clotilde Soupert
