Desert Crossvine...I appreciate everything I can get to bloom these days...so few plants have during the summer.
September Blooms
I put this on the Hummingbird and Butterfly forum, but I'll put it here also. The Snow-on-the-Mountain in my garden finally grew up and bloomed. That's a Juniper Hairstreak on it.
And this lily...can't think of the name at the minute.
Linda I am glad that you do have some blooms with the terrible drought, they are all very pretty.
Is that desert Crossvine a Texas native?
I know the lily as Spider Lily they are so neat, I love them all.
Josephine.
Very nice! Snow-on-the-Mountain pic is lovely. You should submit it.
Red Spider Lily, Hurricane Lily....I've heard them called. Lycoris radiata are now starting to emerge here,...in our area, as well. A welcome sign of autumn coming on!
I posted this recently on Gardening w/Tx Native Plants forum (and talked to Linda & Josephine about it) but will post it here too
Cottonleaf Passionflower (Passiflora foetida)
Lovely flowers Lee.
With the recent rains,...my Red Texas Star Hibiscus is blooming again....a favorite of mine!
About the same time as the Red Spider Lilies,..the Fairy Rain Lilies (Zephyranthes candida) also bloom....especially after some rain showers
My Moonflower from seeds planted this spring.
I just made a little trip around my backyard with my camera and took pictures of most of what's blooming. My beds look pretty good because we have been fortunate and gotten several good rainshowers in the last few weeks. The names of some of these have escaped my mind for the moment but I am posting them anyway.
The first is a bushy vine type plant I bought a couple of years ago from a private nursery near Cut-and-Shoot. They have great sales in the spring and fall.
Bonnie
Drawing a blank!
Another
Bushy yellow daisies
Profusion Zinnias
Another Zinnia. These are great flowers drought or not!
Althea with Bee
Vitex with same Bee. (He was busy!) :o)
Blackeyed Susan?
Sunflower
Name brain lapse!
Lion's tail grown from seeds from Lazlo. Healthy plants but no flowers so far. Does anyone know if there is still hopes for blooms this year?
These Mickey Mouse Taros are not flowers but I love the way they look in my shady bed. The starter plants were generously shared with me by ceejaytown in The Woodlands. Thanks!
Josephine, I'm afraid that's not a native at all. Which is probably why I rarely see any insects attracted to it. When I was taking a propagation class once, we were allowed to take cuttings from plants in the back part of the nursery to practice on. I saw the blooms on that plant and took cuttings, not even knowing at the time exactly what it was...I've had this one ever since.
I've really revved up this large Turk's Cap plant lately. It seems that a mean old armadillo keeps getting in the yard and digging nearby where I have fairly new plants. When I fill the holes next to those plants back up, I water, trying to save those plants and while I'm watering there, the Turk's Cap gets some extra water also. I can't get the whole plant into a photo...too big. Oh, and there's a Pokeweed there also.
As for Mr. Armadillo, I've been trying to trap him, but he must be leery of the trap. So...I've thought of something I think might work as bait. Oh yes, let's see if he can resist a whole pot full of fishing worms! I'll try anything at this point!
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bobyrd, lovely flowers! I have a Lion's Ear...a related plant. I think your plant will bloom! My plants bloomed some earlier in the summer, but with the extreme heat and not that much watering, they stopped blooming. Which is unusual for Lion's Ear...usually couldn't stop it if I tried. Now that fall is here, temps will be lower and mine should bloom again. Leonotis species are pretty much like weeds...they don't need much to grow and bloom.
Blackfoot Daisy, I watered it the other day, then last night we had 2/10 of an inch of rain. Seems we're on the economy plan of rainfall...but better than nothing!
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Such lovely flowers everyone!!
Bob~The pic of the red berries is Pigeonberry. I have it in shady areas in my yard.
Here are my Rudbeckia Hirtas grown from seed.
Reds and yellow~Gompherena in front, red salvia and yellow esperanza
Oxblood Lily or Schoolhouse Lily
Available in pink, too! :)
The orange cosmos are still blooming like crazy!
Bumblebees on Mealy Blue Sage
Bonnie, the purple looks like Thunbergia Erecta - I have the blue sky vine type. That color you have is gorgeous!
The magenta looks like a Gerbera. Love the color on that one, too.
Stephanie, that yellow and red combination is so pretty! I'm going to have to get Gomphrena next year.
Linda, I hope you can run off your armadillo! The Snow on the Mountain is so pretty and what an interesting butterfly. I've never seen the variety of butterflies and dragonflies in my whole life that I've seen just this summer.
Yes that is a Gerbera daisy and that sounds right for the vine. I buy plants and then don't write down what they are and then I forget. What kind of gardener would you call that? :o)
My baby red banana that I got from a neighbor in May, was just 4" tall and no roots! He is doing pretty good. This is my first Banana... ever. It works next to the pool.
Not a whole lot of blooms, but the variegated ginger is bright, the Gardenia is blooming, although NO scent :( and the banana is still growing amongst the Impatiens...
Here is my fall clemetis, planted under kumquat.
Clerodendrum, the name escapes me for the moment.
White Wings
Coneflower with a friend.
Whitewings is a most interesting plant, Annette!!