It's Garden Bloggers Bloom Day for October, and since I missed September, and have posted very little for the month, I figured I better put a post together. With my son's wedding in September and the travel that came along with it, I seem to have spent most of the last month in some kind of altered state, rarely thinking about the blog much.
The flowers I have to show this month are actually pretty much the same ones that were flowering last month, so no harm done with missing a month's post. Even though we had a frost last week, many flowers haven't missed a beat and are still flowering today.
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| A second wave of flowers on Centranthus ruber -- I allowed the previous to go to seed, and I can already see that was a mistake -- babies everywhere! |
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| Astrantia major 'Vanilla Gorilla' |
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| Geranium 'Rozanne' |
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| Sedum 'Autumn Joy' and Leucanthemum 'Crazy Daisy' |
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| Calamintha nepeta 'Marvelette Blue' |
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| My neighbor's side of the new prairie bed is a riot of flowers, many grown from seed this past winter |
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| Coreopsis |
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| Heliopsis helianthoides 'Burning Hearts' |
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| Veronica teucrium 'Royal Blue' |
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| Salvia azurea |
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| Coreopsis |
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| Poppy mallow/Callirhoe involucrata |
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| Not a flower, actually, but a berry drupe, on Leycesteria formosa/Himalayan honeysuckle |
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| Floppy spent flowers on Eucomis, looking very octopus-like |
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| A tall Aster whose name I've lost |
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| Eryngium 'Blue Glitter' |
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| Abelia 'Kaleidoscope' |
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| Cyclamen that has popped up from seed in an out-of-the-way spot |
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| Arbutus unedo 'Compacta' is smothered in flowers |
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| Normally there are quite a few of last year's berries still hanging with this year's flowers, but I had to hunt hard for these two |
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| Yellow Corydalis |
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| Most of the Dahlias have collapsed, but a few are still standing upright |
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| Ready to give up the ghost |
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| Cyclamen hederifolium |
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| Last few flowers of Geranium 'Wargrave's Pink' which has a first spring flush and then flowers sporadically all summer |
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| Most of the oakleaf Hydrangea flowers have faded to brown, but it has produced two bright white new ones |
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| Hydrangea arborescens |
There are more flowers inside the greenhouse, where all the summer players from the front porch display have been put away.
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| Pelargonium |
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| Begonia |
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| Euphorbia millii |
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| Pelargonium sidoides, which never flowers here until I put it away for the winter |
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| Hoya carnosa 'Compacta' |
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| Packed away in an obscure corner of the greenhouse, the flowers of Aloe 'Christmas Carol' rise above the fray |
Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. Check out her post here.