TXMel, will you have to bring the banana indoors for the winter or will it stay outside with some kind of protection?
That white wings is beautiful - what are the white things? Leaves or flowers or petals or what? Very cool, whatever they are. :)
Happy Tuesday!
Elizabeth
September Blooms
Hi, Everyone! Here are a few pics from this morning.
This one is my Esperanza
Vinca and Bulbine - You gotta love these two - they're pretty indestructible!
The white things are leaves. It isn't supposed to be hardy here, but it comes back every year. The correct name is:
Dwarf Mussaenea "White Wing" Musseanda luteola
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/59740/
The clero is :
Clerodendrum Trichota
I knew I had the names, but havent looked them up for quite a while
This flower looks just like a butterfly, but it's not a "butterfly plant". I think it's a "clerendrum"(SP?) It has an open growth habit and is about 4' tall.
Gold Rush Lantana - it takes up most of the center of the bed!
Knockout roses, climbing dawn rose, passion vine
This is one of my favorites for just filling in. Guara
And one more - a better pic of bulbine. I'd never heard of it before a friend of mine pulled some up out of her garden and gave to me. I's a great full sun plant.
the red banana... this is my first one... given by neighbor, who doesnt do much of anything. we plan to pile thick with leaf mulch this winter. We sure want them to come back!!!
Dstarr, Beautiful harbor and trellises, and plants too of course.
Josephine.
Hi all,
took a drive recently to Garland and saw a Lot full of those Snow on the Mountain plants... very striking from the highway and even prettier up close in your pic, LindaTX!
The Sweet Goldenrod is starting to bloom ~ I just love the smell (and taste) of sweet licorice/anise. Haven't tried it in my tea yet though.
camphorweed/stinkweed, pluchea odorata... sometimes it's just stinkweed and sometimes it has a flowery aroma, very strong smelling though!
All flying insects love this plant and swarm it all day!
This one has a more subtle smell and much nicer and sweet. Interestingly, it grows in extremely dry areas as well as up near the edge of the pond and I often find it and the Camphorweed growing together.
Haven't been able to find it's name yet but I think it may be Boneset.
Josephine - thanks! My DH built it for me.
Purple Basil, Red Salvia, and Salvia Indigo Spires (I think).
Garden view
That's so nice with all your flowers intermingling. Did you direct sow from seed or did you place the plants in the garden?
I ask because I tried the direct sowing thing for this year's garden but it didn't turn out anything like I wanted...stuff grew where it wanted to or it didn't grow at all. LOL I think this coming year, I'm going to try planting the seeds in containers and then in the ground where I want them. It's still fun though and I do like surprises : )
Eyeball plant...I will be moving this to moister soil near the front of the garden herb garden.
btw dstarr, that is a lovely harbor!!
I winter sowed some things then transplanted, but most of the plants were received at Round Ups as transplants. If you like to grow from seed, you really need to try winter sowing. Of course, some things should probably be moved, some didn't grow like I thought they would, some grew too much, but I got tired of trying to trim, shape, etc. and just learned to like the wild look.
I look forward to trying winter-sowing!!
This is my first bloom from some luffa seeds I planted. They wouldn't sprout until July when it was really hot!! There are ants crawling on it !! But ants have been crawling on many of the blooms, like okra, squash and melons?? Haven't found any aphids yet (thankfully).
allwild818,Eyeball plant! funny!
Dstarr, that is a nice arbor. What do you plan on growing up those trellises.
Sephanie, I also like all those combos.
stephanie your bed looks AWESOME! So many blooms!!!! AHHHHHhhhhh
The blue butterfly looking one is clerodendrum ungandese or something like that. Mine hasn't bloomed yet. I think its in too much shade since its about 7 feet tall before it blooms every year, lol.
Fool4Flowers - That's what it's called! Thanks for the reminder. I forget every year. Mine gets about 5 hours of sun, I guess, each day. It's the second full year it's been in the ground and it's really taken off this year. I just love the blooms.
Banana - not sure about the trellis'. DH wants to be able to see them (he found them at an antique place in Houston). Right now there's passion vine growing on the posts between them and that'll probably take over any day now! LOL! The original plan was for it to be a rose garden thingy, and there are mostly roses. I don't know. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Deb
Clematis would be nice and not so think as to hide the trellis. I have corkscrew vine on my round gazebo and it really took off this year and smells sooooo good but its pretty much covering one side of the whole structure so don't think it would be good for a trellis that you want to look at. My front trees got very bushy this year and I forgot the thin the limbs so I think its making it too shady where my blue butterfly one is. Last year it only bloomed at the top of the stalks and didn't bloom until late October. I am going to try moving it next spring if I can dig it up. The base is really big. I wonder if I cut it about halfway down before frost instead of all the way if it would bush more and then I could cover it and not have to start all over again next year? I cut it all the back last year and mulched the top and put a large flower pot upside down over it.
Gosh, bobyrd, the "another" in post #7032340 is very cool. Does anyone know what it is? Would it take full sun?
It is called Duranta erecta, I would say semishade is best.
FFF - the clematis idea is good. I actually planted a Jackmanii on one of the trellis' and some other kind with the Don Juan rose at the opposite end. You're right - they won't get so thick that you can't see the structure. Hmm, I don't know if cutting you butterfly bush half way would do what you'd want, but if you cut it down anyway, what do you have to lose? I don't think I cut mine down until about Feb. and it came back bigger and bushier than ever. That's a good idea about the overturned pot, though. I think we spread burlap last winter.
This Duranta is actually planted in a bed on the West side and gets full afternoon sun. So far it is doing pretty good!
Now that rain is happening, maybe it's time for me to get blooming plants at the nursery! To offset what didn't survive. One expert says the blame for very low numbers of Monarchs this year is believed to be directly related to the horrible Texas drought! Some blooms for the butterflies to nectar on will help this fall.
Thank you, frostweed and bobyrd! I really like that blue.
dstarr, I like your arbor and trellis system as well. I'll chime in for a couple of morning glory vines as I think those can be controlled fairly well going up the support. If you don't like them you can always grow different ones the next year. Or not at all. For several years I grew just two vines from two seeds up a willow/twig trellis. Looked cool to me and total vinage did not hide the trellis at all! I also think morning glories look good with clematis, but that's just me. So I'll second the clematis suggestion.
Oh, yeah, Japanese morning glories would look fabulous and you could put a moonflower for evening blooms. Both are easy to remove after they die back.
That's a good idea! I have morning glories growing up a front house column to the porch upstairs and it looks really good. This is the first year I've put anything to grow on the house - actually, it's the first year the renovations have been complete enough that the upstairs porch didn't fall in! LOL!!! Maybe I'll get a pic of it tomorrow. With all this rain, the leaves are huge. First morning glory I've ever grown. thanks,
Aster
Gorgeous Dale!!!
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Lindheimer Senna, adding the yellow blooms that jazz up the garden!
Four O'clocks, finally blooming after the rain!
And Velvetleaf Mallow, celebrating what rain we got by blooming! Host plant for different skipper species.
