Mid-Atlantic Gardening: End of summer blooms, 2 by CatMint20906

CatMint20906 wrote:
LOL, Speedie--yes, I wish I had some of Holly's accidental magic as well! :-)

Gita and Typ--early October works for me! Sat the 5th? Sat the 12th is our fall bulb event at Critter's. Looking forward to it, whenever it's scheduled for! Speedie, wish you could be there, too!

Speedie--I also moved my platy to a more sheltered spot--it is nestled in between my coleus and my kalanchoe, under the rose bush. It has several blossoms now, although they tend to wither quickly with a look of 'I got too hot'. So, I think even there it may be getting more morning sun than it wants, so I may seek an even shadier spot for it, like under the dogwood where the brunnera and jacob's ladder have done well (the lungwort has been getting too much sun under the dogwood, so I think I'll move that to the new shade garden).

SSG, I love your pinky winky--so pretty! :-)

Gita, I have an Endless Summer as well. It was blue when I brought it home and it has stayed mostly blue, although some of the recent blossoms have been more pinkish or purple. I think the soil it came in must have been very acid, but as it stays in my garden longer, maybe the more neutral soil in the larger bed is affecting it? I'm fine with bright pink, bright blue, or purple. However, the very large hydrangea in my back yard bed has been putting out some blossoms that are sort of a whitish pinkish bluish noncolor that I'm not terribly fond of; I'm not sure what it means...

FlowAjen, love all the butterfly photos! How do you manage to capture them so perfectly?? Whenever I try, the butterfly is already gone before my camera has even clicked, and then it looks so tiny in the photo I can barely see it... Here's my own feeble attempt to catch a butterfly on my phlox David. ;-)