Bloom Day Sept '13

Chelone and Ligularia

Ok, a quick post for Garden Blogger's Bloom Day.  Enjoy the show by visiting May Dreams Gardens. 

   Here are a few things blooming - or getting seedy - at my seaside cottage, here in Nova Scotia, Canada. 

Rose 'Golden Showers"?  Not sure.  But it sure is lovely.

A tiny new Seven-Sons blooming, Heptacodium miconioides

Corydalis ochotensis

Patrinia scabiosifolia, Golden Lace

Kirengeshoma plamata

Vernonia noveboracensis, New York Ironweed - love it, just got it this summer

Rose 'The Fairy' blooms and blooms and blooms

Shoo Fly Plant, Nicandra physalodes

Along with the blooms, a few seedy characters are also appearing...

Eryngium agavifolium

For the first time I have berries!  Lord's & Ladies, Arum italicum

Bloom, bloom, bloom... keep the season looking great!

Slash and Save the Banana

Ensete ventricousm maurelii

A few light frosts have hit the Abyssinian Banana.  Before more damage was done, it had to be hacked, dug, potted, and  brought in.  Below you see it just a couple months ago, before it overtook the Shoo-fly plants around it.

Thought I might as well attack all the damaged leaves.  I decided to leave parts of the best ones on.  I guess I will not attempt to keep it dormant; I'll find a spot for it where it can keep growing a bit through the winter.  I expect it's greatest threat will be the usual spider mites.   And my underwatering.

It spent a few days in the greenhouse, but the temp tonight is likely to be just above freezing.  In other words, a heavy frost.

So I just brought it into the basement for the night.  I think I'll take it to work next, and find a quiet spot for it in front of a big window.  And, I commit myself to watering it every week.  Yes.  I promise.  

October Bloomers

October brings some new blooms to the garden, while other plants keep their own show going on and on and on.  This Eupatorium rugosum 'Chocolate'  is just in it's glory now.  Nearby, the Aralia cordata 'Sun King' is blooming greenily, and the Chives still send up an occasional blooming stem.

The annual Nicandra physalodes keeps on blooming and going to seed.  Some of the local birds have even been feeding on the seeds, I think.

Campsis radicans, sporting some large green pods, looks like it will stay in flower until frost.  There.  I typed that word.  Here's hoping the first hard frost will be weeks away!

The male Holly, above, is blooming a bit.  But another spectacular bloomer for a great long time has been this Gaura that came from a church plant sale, with a common name I don't remember now.  I really had no idea what it would be when I bought it last year.  Now I wish I had more.

The gardening season continues!

Bloom Day August 2012 - at Home

It's a work week, so I can't quite get to the Cottage.  Here is what's bloomin around the house.  Check out the other Garden Blogger Bloom Day posts by visiting May Dreams Gardens.

The Shofly Plant (Nicandra physaloes) had closed up by the time I took this shot.

Rose "Grootendoorst"

I still love the Campsis radicans, Trumpet Vine.

Plumbago Ceratostigma plumbaginoides in a pot, not yet planted.

Asclepias incarnata 

A spectacular weed, perhaps Tansy, Tanacetum vulgare

A Rugosa Rose reblooming

Gerbera Daisy

Not blooming, but a happy banana, Musa acuminata

And an almost blooming Joe Pye Week, Eupatorium sp.