Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October 2011 What's blooming in your garden?
October might be the end of the growing season here for most of my flowering garden plants but there are still a few that stand out in the dull borders. There might have been more in bloom but one large border had a make over in late August and even some of the larger shrubs were moved to new locations. For Octobers Garden Bloggers Bloom Day I quickly went and took a few snapshots of those flowers that are making the most impact in the border rather than those that are just nearing the very end of their season.
Verbena bonariensis
The 6 ft stems are still standing tall though the plants haven't attracted as many butterflies as last year.
I stood on a stool to get up to the same level as this Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) butterfly.
Asters are my perfect pollinators at this time of year and brighten up the dull borders.
My all time favourite is Aster × frikartii 'Mönch' (top photo) which is mildew resistant along with two from the Aster novi-belgii 'Island Series' (middle and lower photos) which are resistant to mildew too as well as being dwarf. I've many more but they are young plants and a few are yet to bloom.
Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii 'Goldsturm'
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I have 3 medium sized clumps of these plants and I think that this is the best year so far for these yellow daisies.
It has taken the plants about 4 years to settle in the garden.
Caryopteris 'Heavenly Blue'
This plant seems to gets lost in the garden at this time of year.
I don't think it can compete with the autumn foliage explosion going on in the other border.
Well it would be hard to compete with this...........
A 10ft long Cotoneaster horizontalis dripping with red berries and Euonymus alatus 'Compacta' literally on fire!
A note for my records of what else is in flower on 15th October 2011:
Rosa 'New Dawn'
Rosa 'Flowering Carpet Red' Standard
Sedums
Rosa 'Rhapsody in Blue'
Pink and Purple Petunias (annual)
White Marguerites (annual)
Clematis viticella 'Etoile Rose'
Autumn crocus
Colchicum 'Water Lily'
Colchicum 'Water Lily'
Oestospermum (annual and perennial varieties)
Astilbe chinensis 'Pumila'
Potentilla fruticosa 'Red Ace'
Potentilla fruticosa - yellow (lost label)
Purple Prunella vulgaris
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"Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse." Romans 1:20
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28 comments:
Superb photos of some beautiful flowers. The Asters certainly brightened up my day. They are lovely. The Cotoneaster and Eunonymous shot really took my breath away though. Simply gorgeous!
Stunning red tones in the last image. Gorgeous composition too.
Beautiful flowers!
Beautiful pictures - you still have some lovely colours in your garden.
There's still so much colour in your garden. Your photos are fabulous!!
I always look forward to your GBBD photos. They are so beautiful and full of life! The dripping cotoneaster really pops, in the garden and your image.
That last photo really is spectacular. We aren't really into fall color season yet but the fall flowers will be coming to an end soon.
The Cotoneaster and Eunonymous are stunning! They must just stop you in your tracks anytime you walk past!
Beautiful photographs. I am so jealous you can grow caryopteris.
Beautiful photography!
I haven't tried to grow caryopteris since the last lot drowned when the garden flooded. What a lovely inspiration.
The cotoneaster is stunningly beautiful...it surely is dripping with berries! Happy GBBD!
Oh my! I am breathless, what absolutely fabulous photos. Thank you.
aloha,
so nice that butterfly did that pose for you...the photos are great esp the selective focus and range in depth of field rosie!
Your photography and flowers are just amazing! I am growing tall verbena this year for the first time and have been very happy with it in the mid border. It also serves as a support for the yellow cosmos. Thanks for sharing your lovely photos. And I really like the cotoneaster. I think I will look for that one!
Oooh, such wonderful colors! Your photography is amazing. I particularly like the very first picture with the Red Admiral, one of my favorite butterflies.
Your verbena is 6 ft tall! Wow! Asters are one of my favorites, too. But your "red" picture is absolutely gorgeous!
Absolutely beautiful post! I agree about the Asters...they really add some much-needed vibrant color to the garden at this time of year...which is exactly why I need more!
Wow! Love your photos. as always. the rudbeckia photo is pristine, so much depth. My favorite.
Rosie, just gorgeous photos! I gorw asters, but am never totally pleased with them come fall. I have a potted one now that I may keep in the garden, very controlled and seems to have escaped the diseases.
Eileen
Rosie, you have the perfect fall bloomers. The caryopteris has such lovely blue blooms, but I can see why it might get "lost" this time of year--that last photo is dazzling! Happy Bloom Day!
Rosie, I haven't been visiting, and what a surprise for GBBD. Your presentation is just fantastic! The first photo takes my breath away.Lovely post.
Rosie
Even if you say your garden is fading, your photos are always outstanding. Are you not joining the GGW photos contest, i am sure you have plenty of photos fitting the 'fill the frame' subject. I love most your two photos, may i know what lens you used for them? Thanks Rosie.
Andrea I didn't know about the competition. The lens I used was a canon f1.4 50mm lens. I've checked my exif data and I was shooting wide open at 1.4 hence the reason for the very shallow DOF and that wonderful bokeh. I'm not so sure but I quite possibly manually focused those shots aswell that you liked.
What Beautiful blooms your are showing in this posting. The Asters are so beautiful.
The Fall colors on the Cotoneaster is wonderful.
Amazing photos of gorgeous fall flowers. Happy Bloom day.
I love your GGW submission Rosie, but I've become rather partial to Rudbeckias lately. The Cotoneaster made me cringe a little. The photograph is gorgeous, and the colors are stunning, but I spent three days this year ripping Cotoneaster plants out of our wildland area (they're invasive here). Still pretty though, I just wish they didn't take over parts of our woodland!
Never would any cotoneaster be the top of my list but your C horizontalis looks fabulous
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Rosie