This particular Bloom Day happens to fall on one of the crappiest, wettest days so far in our fair city. It is really a godawful day to venture outside! But, I braved the rain and mud for about five minutes, to get at least a few photos to share. Please forgive me for the mostly – at best – mediocre photos.
White Cyclamen (C. hederifolium ‘Album’) poking its cute little head out from one of my fern tables.
Newly planted Fuchsia speciosa in a planter with an Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Showy Lanterns’ and Leucothoe axillaris ‘Red Lips’. If it all survives the winter, it should look pretty cool next year. The Fuchsia looks a lot more pink in the photo than it actually is. It’s a reddish orange, and the petals have green tips. I love it. It is also one of the parent Fuchsias to that super cool, crazy-colored Fuchsia ‘Neon tricolor’, if that gives you a better indication.
Irresistible buds on a baby Mahonia x media ‘Hope’. Soon they will turn into yellow hummingbird feeders. Love the reddish stems on the leaves!
Camelia sasanqua ‘Yuletide’ in full November bloom – here with a Pyrrhosa and Libertia grandiflora.
A beautiful, cherry red Abutilon that I have forgotten the name of, is still pumping out blooms. This is a remarkable plant in that it survived our last winter, outside in a pot. I forgot to bring it in! Because I got so busy I had no time to spend in my own garden until late summer, and neglected to clean it up, and get rid of it. So glad I didn’t! So, the moral of the story, my friends, is that sometimes procrastination has its own rewards. All of a sudden, around mid summer, I noticed it was shooting up new foliage, with new buds. As you can imagine, I was thrilled! Terrible photo, but both my camera and I are still drying out from our first venture out there, so you will have to make do with this one.
A sweet friend dropped off this Eupatorium capillifolium ‘Elegant feather’ a few weeks ago. It is still in its little #1 nursery pot, but blooming its heart out. Because my last one died last winter, I think I will give this one a bigger pot, and keep it somewhat protected in the shed, and plant it out next spring. Really love this one – it has the most amazing, ferny foliage!
By now, more “seed head” than” flower”, but this completely unadulterated shot of Datisca cannabina will give you an idea of how wonderful our weather is today. That is the actual color of the sky. So thankful we have a roof over our heads.
The promise of days to come – buds on the Stachyrus salicifolia!
The dropping temperatures seem to affect the color of little Rosa ‘Green Ice’ which usually sports greenish white flowers with a hint of pink. Right now I see no green at all – in fact, it matches the Persicaria affinis next to it.
Awfully fuzzy photo, but you can at least sense the color shifts in the Hot Cocoa rose. I appreciate its longevity and perseverance so much – it is still putting out blooms! And some have turned to orange rose hips!
Not a lot of blooms, but still… Zauschnerias (Epilobium) keep going and going.
I intentionally did not deadhead the flowers of Leucanthemum ‘Real Galaxy’, because I kind of liked the contrast of these black buttons. (Even though right now – drenched as they are – they kind of look like over-ripe mushrooms.)
A NOID Fuchsia magellanica that was one of the first things I planted in this garden. It has weathered several tough winters, and just keeps outdoing itself every summer. Total rock star plant, IMHO. Once the first frost hits, it will be done, so it’s a good frost gauge.
The bejeweled Fatsia japonica ‘Variegata’ looking pretty against the neighbor’s Maple.
Another Zauschneria that needs to be rescued and moved. Right now, it is smothered by a Senecio (Brachyglottis) greyii, and desperately sending up stalks where it can.
The Viburnum opulus that came with the garden (I’m unsure of which variety it might be) is covered in red berries. Both birds and I like them. This Viburnum will get a pretty severe pruning this winter, as it is in the process of popping out our fence panels. That will keep me busy during the slow season, I suppose…
Another berry shot.
Finally – I had to severely crop this image, and it is still hard to see, but trusty old Magnolia grandiflora is still sporting flower buds high up in its leafy dome. It suffered quite a bit of damage from last year’s snow loads, and you can still see broken off twigs and branches with dead leaves here and there. I removed what I could with the help of a ladder and an anchor hook, but there is still plenty left that I can’t reach.
Mosey on over to May Dreams Gardens to see what is abloom in other gardens the world over. Thanks for hosting, Carol – I apologize for my spotty attendance this summer – I think I have a half finished post from May that I still might finish one day. It was all downhill from there, but all better now.
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