Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Blooms in September...

Last weekend I did something that would have been completely normal at any other time in my life—that is took a little road trip up to the Seattle area to visit friends and gardens. However I am completely out of practice when it comes to travel! Five days away, with three different overnight locations, was a significant disrupter to my equilibrium. Thus this month's Bloomday snuck up on me, I've scrambled to get photos taken, edited and uploaded, but here we are...

I'd forgotten that I planted these Cyclamen hederifolium 'Xera's Sterling' last fall, their blooms were an unexpected surprise when I returned home on Monday...

The front garden bougainvillea are also blooming again...yay!

Walking into the back garden I discovered quite a few Passiflora 'Snow Queen' blooms had opened...


As well as a few Passiflora 'Amethyst Jewel', this one has been on a significant bloom strike since our June heat wave.

Just one small flower on the back garden's Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum.

The Persicaria microcephala ‘Red Dragon’ flowers look nice against the foliage of the variegated Daphniphyllum macropodum.

Mahonia eurybracteata 'Soft Caress'  

There is just one small bloom cluster on my Aralia cordata 'Sun King'. I've been growing this plant in a container, because when I bought it I didn't have a place in the ground for it. I do now I and I plan to finally plant it out in the spring, it's going to be so happy!

That damn begonia—Begonia semperflorens ‘Harmony Plus White'—just keeps blooming, 

Thalictrum ichangense 'Evening Star', also keeping on with the blooming. I think this one is about three months in.

Chasmanthium latifolium, aka northern sea oats and about a million other common names...

Last month I shared some of my other Nepenthes alata pitchers, because they're as colorful as blooms, so I thought I would share the pitchers on this plant for September.

Just below them is a blooming NOID tillandsia.

Paris polyphylla [Heronswood Form]

Way way way up high, Hibiscus syriacus 'Red Heart' is still doing it's thing.

And we'll back out of the back garden looking at the aralia, first up the tiny blooms of Schefflera brevipedunculata...

Metapanax delavayi 

And a group shot with Schefflera delavayi in the starring role, up front. 

That's it for my September blooms! It's been a hot and dry summer and the garden is tired. I could go on for another month or two but things are starting to show signs of turning to fall. We've got rain in the forecast for the weekend (everyone but me is excited about that) and the sunlight is no longer at it's summer angle. I'm trying to deal with the change gracefully...

For more blogger's blooms visit May Dreams Gardens, our charming hostess for this floral extravaganza!

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20 comments:

  1. Lovely as always. I'm jealous of those passionflower blooms. It's my dream to go away for a few days, leaving my plants to their own devices, and come back to surprise blooms instead of dead plants. Mahonia 'Soft Caress' seems to have a longer bloom season than 'Charity' - is that the case or my imagination? My garden is short on yellow flowers at this time of year and I've been thinking of adding that plant.

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    1. Thankfully I didn't come back to dead plants, but the timing of the trip was certainly done in part to keep that from happening. As for the mahonia bloom time I would have to say in my experience 'Charity' blooms last longer than 'Soft Caress' blooms. But they are definitely at different times of the year.

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  2. Beautiful pictures. I had not seen that white Passiflora before. Just gorgeous!

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  3. Three words: Passiflora 'Snow Queen'. SWOON!!! Should I plant one??

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  4. At least I recognized the Cyclamen. Your garden always feels like it's in another country, it's so exotic to me.

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    1. Well, Portland does march to it's own beat. So far we're still in the same country though.

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  5. I love all your exotic blooms. Mine are feeling pretty pedestrian this month, especially since lots are repeats from last month or the month before even! I don't *want* it to rain, but we do need it, so I am also trying to be graceful about this abrupt change in seasons.

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  6. Happy Bloom Day, Loree! I particularly like your Passiflora blooms. I started P. incarnata in a pot and at the foundation of the house this year. Hopefully both will make it through the winter. The pot will come inside and the foundation plants will be heavily mulched. Fingers crossed.

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  7. Lots of lovelies this month, Loree. I, too, am in denial about autumn with the equinox coming next week. It helps that it was in the 80s today, feeling more like July than September!

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    1. We've got an 80 degree day in the forecast (the equinox actually), but I kinda think they've got that out there just to keep us summer-lovers hopeful.

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  8. That cyclamen is so beautiful!

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    1. I was thrilled that Greg (Xera) shared his stash with me!

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  9. You got the 'Blooms Day' and 'Foliage Follow Up' meme combined very nicely, especially in the Cyclamen, Bougainvillea, Passiflora 'Amethyst Jewel' and Loropetalum chinense vignettes: all looking fantastic. My Thalictrum 'Evening Star', which made it through one winter (unlike its predecessor), has retained its darkish leaf color: I'm guessing because it's in shade.

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    1. Nice! Mine stayed dark for most of the summer, and this is the only one I've managed to keep alive!

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  10. Oat grass is aggressive in my garden, and I think eight of my nine lives has been spent removing it. So many beautiful blossoms in your garden; some I have never heard of before. Something I never paid much attention to until I started gardening, was that the sun rises to the right of our home in spring and to the left in fall. Simple, but always a reminder we are in motion. Lovely post of a tired garden that still has much beauty.

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    1. I hear so many people say the same think about the oat grass, in all my years of gardening I've never had a problem. Probably because I'm always cutting the seed heads for vases.

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