How can September be half over already? It's hard to believe that fall begins in only a week. Time flies when you're having fun (or old like me.) On the fifteenth of each month, Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts GBBD to help us remember that we can have flowers every month of the year. Click over to her blog to see what's blooming right now in bloggers' gardens around the world. Here's some of what's blooming in my garden right now.
Fuchsias are a favorite plant because they bloom for so long and add some nice saturated color at this less floriferous time of year.
Early this spring, shopping at Fred Meyer, The begonia tubers seduced me from across the store. They have a way of doing that. Anyway, the tubers were in bulk boxes and customers could choose the ones they wanted, place them in a bag along with a handy printed tag to label each variety. There was a bag of three tubers that another shopper had put together with the label for the red hanging begonia in this picture. A change of mind had them leave the bag of three inside the red bin. Thinking it would be lovely to have a hanging basket of red begonias, I grabbed the rejected bag. Much to my surprise, the resulting basket has two different kinds of begonias, none of which seems to want to hang. Thus, I have a ugly plastic hanging pot with clashing begonias growing straight up instead of playfully cascading down to cover the ugly pot. Fun.
Clerodendrum trichotomum has this year produced more flowers than ever before, is still blooming, and is producing lots of ornamental berries!
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Lonicera periclymenum 'INOV71' or 'Caprilia Cream' or 'Sweet Tea' is all the same plant and it's delightfully fragrant.
Fuchsias are a favorite plant because they bloom for so long and add some nice saturated color at this less floriferous time of year.
Abutilons - Ditto!
Abutilon megapotamicum
Pelargonium that wintered over in the little glass room because of it's interesting flower shape and color.
Pelargonium 'Crystal Palace Gem'
Begonias
Early this spring, shopping at Fred Meyer, The begonia tubers seduced me from across the store. They have a way of doing that. Anyway, the tubers were in bulk boxes and customers could choose the ones they wanted, place them in a bag along with a handy printed tag to label each variety. There was a bag of three tubers that another shopper had put together with the label for the red hanging begonia in this picture. A change of mind had them leave the bag of three inside the red bin. Thinking it would be lovely to have a hanging basket of red begonias, I grabbed the rejected bag. Much to my surprise, the resulting basket has two different kinds of begonias, none of which seems to want to hang. Thus, I have a ugly plastic hanging pot with clashing begonias growing straight up instead of playfully cascading down to cover the ugly pot. Fun.
Solanum quitoense
Impatiens glandulifera
Lysimachia monelli née Anagallis monellii AKA Blue Pimpernel
Echeveria 'topsy turvy'
"Assorted succulents"
Still a few gardenias.
Hydrangea 'Pistachio'
NOID hydrangea I picked up in the floral section of the grocery store a few years ago because I liked it. Past their prime, hydrangeas will still look interesting until winter.
A few last alstromerias
Salpiglossis
Clematis 'Nelly Moser'
Anemone hupehensis
Dahlia
Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Golden Arrow'
Geranium 'Ann Folkard' has a fun habit of climbing all over everything.
Sedum 'Autumn Joy'
There's almost always a rose
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or two in bloom.
Colchicum
Lonicera periclymenum 'INOV71' or 'Caprilia Cream' or 'Sweet Tea' is all the same plant and it's delightfully fragrant.
What's blooming in your garden this month?