Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Bloomday for October, 2019

Well look at that, another Garden Bloggers Bloomday has rolled around (thanks to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for keeping the tradition alive). I'm feeling kind of detached from the garden right now. It's been wet, then cold, and I've been busy. All the better to have a reason to stroll and look for flowers right? I am thrilled with the consistent bloom output of Passiflora 'Amethyst Jewel', this plant is a winner.

Passiflora 'Arctic Queen' has been a little less generous with the flowers, but when they do happen, vavoom!

Persicaria microcephala ‘Red Dragon’ has been blooming for awhile now, I just thought to snap a photo and include it in the bloomday show.

Anemone 'Honorine Jobert' finally got started.

Cyclamen hederifolium, such a tiny little thing.

Leonotis leonurus, winding down.

Abutilon megapotamicum 'Paisley'

Abutilon Nuabyell

Clematis tibetana var. vernayi, don't you just wish you could pinch those thick petals? It feels just as good as you would guess it does.

Clematis tibetana var. vernayi and Schefflera delavayi

Mahonia eurybracteata 'Soft Caress'

This one caught me by surprise, Impatiens omeiana isn't typically a fall bloomer, at least not in my garden.

Rosemary, the everblooming.

And finally, Knautia macedonica, which has put on quite the show this year. What's blooming in your October garden?

Weather Diary, Oct 14: Hi 64, Low 40/ Precip0

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29 comments:

  1. Love the tiny Cyclamen! The shape of Cyclamen blooms always make me think of butterflies.
    Happy Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day!

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    1. The do have an interesting shape, they kind of remind my of a badminton shuttlecock.

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  2. I've been feeling detached from the garden lately too. There is still plenty of work that I should be doing, but I just can't bring myself to get out there and do it. This seems to happen every year at this time, when the garden starts to go to sleep, I just want to pull the covers over my head and sleep too.

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    1. Yesterday I went for a quick power-walk when I couldn't sit at my desk any longer (and wanted to enjoy a moment of our last dry day for awhile), walking back home I spotted a horrid bunch of weeds in our hellstrip. The north end that I don't make it to much. The garden has been coasting for awhile this fall while I focus on other things.

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  3. How I envy you those passionflowers and the lovely Clematis! My passionflower isn't dead, which is a win of sorts, but the poor thing had to be disconnected from its trellis and now sits in a forlorn corner of the garden, waiting for the crew to finish painting the house's exterior (someday). Like you and Alison, I'm also feeling somewhat detached from my garden after 4 months of a remodel that could easily be prolonged another 2.

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  4. What a wonderful variety of blooms you have. Thank you for sharing them with us.

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  5. As soon as the weather turns I go into couch potato mode. Heavy wet snow pretty much shut the garden down but there are still a few hardy achillea and viola blooms. The biggest surprise are the colchicums. They usually don't appear until much later. Your Passiflora 'Amethyst is stunning.

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    1. Snow will do that, I am so glad I don't live in a heavy snow fall area.

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  6. My Impatiens omeiana is also blooming... first time ever, actually, after maybe 6 years. (I was better at watering it this year).

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    1. Nice work! I am amazed when I see a big patch of these, mine barely send up half a dozen stems.

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  7. You have such interestingly shaped flowers! Most not things I've grown. We have rosemary and knautia in common though. This was my first year for knautia, I grew it from seed last year. The bees sure love it.

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    1. I got mine from a friend who grew it from seed, I love it.

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  8. I love visiting the Danger Garden because it has so many plants I can't grow, but love looking at. My Japanese anemones bloom for a long time but are all gone now.

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    1. I think mine were stunted by life in a container.

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  9. So many interesting blooms in your garden. Your photo of Clematis tibetana does make me want to reach out and touch it. I'd never heard of that one before. I wish I could get Passiflora incarnata to grow here. I'm just a little too far north. The flowers are so fascinating and the fruits are nifty, too.

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    1. I've not had luck with Passiflora incarnata, I think it hates my clay soil.

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  10. That last flower, Knautia macedonica, i think is spectacular. I haven't seen your flowers yet but they are beautiful.

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  11. The Knautia bloom against the Euphorbia is really handsome. As I'm out of the country, I miss my rainy garden; the Cyclamen was starting to bloom when I left and I hope not to miss the entire show. The most surprising to me is Mahonia 'Soft Caress': isn't is supposed to bloom in early winter?

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    1. Hope you're having fun what ever you're up to! Regarding the Mahonia it seems right on time. I think it's usually the first one to bloom and the others come later.

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  12. Wow ! how astonishing blooms in your garden.I fall for shades of abutilon and liked the blooms of clematis too.Happy bloggers blooms day.

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  13. So much happening in your garden that it clearly emphasizes the differences in our climates. My Honorine Jobert is finished blooming and yours is just starting.

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    1. I think mine was all messed up because it doesn't like being in a container. I need to find it a spot in the ground.

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  14. Just asters, grasses, and autumn sage (S. greggii). And some increasingly scrawny 'Honorine Jobert' anemones -- the sparseness not a real shock with summer temperatures and no rain to speak of in the six weeks before bloom. Fall's off to its latest-ever start here, and the foliage isn't likely to be much of a show. But look at those red-berried cones on the magnolia! Best show in a while, fortified by unusually good rainfall in the year preceding the late summer/endless summer drought.

    Does your handsome Magnolia laevifolia have showy seed cones? Please say no, it'll help with the bad case of envy I'm developing...

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    1. No! Occasionally seed pods will form but they're rare and aren't showy like the cones on the M. macrophylla. You can see them here: http://www.thedangergarden.com/2013/08/cones-and-pods-and-such.html

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  15. 'Honorine Jobert' is an old favorite of mine. I love the Passion Flowers.

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