blooming in september

Violet Queen Zinnia with Great Spangled Fritillary

hooray! i found a tiny little bud on my night blooming cereus!!! and the senna bloomed today.... still waiting for the CP raffil ginger to open up... and i got Alocasia Borneo Giant in the mail today. im going to put the plumerias in the GH today they are pretty spindly and i ont want any more snapped branches like on the pudica earlier

I'd like to see what the Borneo Giant turns out like next year. I have a NOID which gets about 8 ft tall with huge leaves. Maybe a swap if they have a different look compared to each other. Fill in around them with smaller EE's etc.

do you think yours could be A. macrorrhizos or odora hybrid?

It could very well be a Alocasia odora, leaves are about the same and the flower stem looks dead on. I haven't seen a picture that is an exact match.

Nice butterfly pics, everyone! One butterfly I've had about enough of around here are the black swallowtails - their larvae have eaten almost all of my parsley. After letting a couple dozen of them mature I've now started picking eggs off the remaining leaves, but it's probably a lost cause.

It will be nice to get the rain from TS Hanna but not the wind. If we get 50mph gusts like they're predicting it's going to make a mess... oh, well.

Here's a pic of my Senna corymbosa bush. It's not quite in full bloom yet but I took a pic today anyway in case it gets a lot of wind damage. This gives you an idea of the overall growth habit. If you're into butterfly gardening, it's a good larval host for sulphurs - they like to eat the flowers most of all.

Corkscrew vine - Vigna caracalla. It seems to have a tendency to drop buds when the weather is hot but now it's cooled off a bit it's blooming more. So far just one "bean pod" though.

Here's a hummingbird getting a last meal before the storm - not a very sharp picture because I was standing about 20ft away (also it was cloudy so not very good lighting). But still pretty cool.

Another one of the hummingbird after it moved over to the lantana.

fantastic photos Tom.

I agree. It was frustrating last weekend to have them perch practically right next to me and not be able to focus on them for a pic.

I'l also definitely have to move my Senna corymbosa from where I planted it.

Butterfly. NOID.

gulf fritillary

Got picoteed. Was supposed to be yellow edged and looks like I have one. Unseccussful one in the blooming August pictures. Wish these flowers opened up earlier than mid night.

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nice. how many skirts?

Tom, add the pictures of your senna to the plantfiles... they need more pictures of it

Chanthy, I am going to have to move my corymbosa also. Tom has an exquisite specimen there,

Beautiful Senna corymbosa. I grew Senna alata last year and really liked it.

Foxi Pavement seedling.

Spicebush Swallowtail

Another Monarch

Silver-spotted Skipper

Sweetbay, good to see the Monarch. I've seen exactly 1 this summer.

Wonderful pictures everyone! Enjoyed them all.

Tom, I'm sure you take your corkscrew vine inside during the winter, don't you? Mine's in a pot. Wish it could stay in the ground.

Barbara

Enjoyed everyone's pictures, too.Chamthy, the caryopteris looks great! Glad you found it.

After several years of waiting, my (supposed to be) Black Tacca finally bloomed and it has turned out to be a White Tacca instead.

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Close up of the neat flowers.

Ardesia: Well, it's beautiful, regardless!

Very cool! Beautiful!

Ardesia- that's a bloom worth waiting for. It's beautiful.

Cestrum parqui

Bayse's Purple rose

Violet Queen Zinnia with Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Ardesia-

I love those! What's not to love about something called a "Bat Flower." I've attached a pic of one I took at the Charlotte Botanical Garden @ UNC last year when I went up to see the Titan arum that was blooming.

American Painted Lady

Carpenter Bee enjoying Caryopteris x clandonensis 'Longwood Blue'

"Apple Blossom" cleome.

Siam Tulips still going. (curcuma alismatifolia)

While I was killing Chinese privet this morning I was stung by a wasp. OWWWWWWW!! My hand is still swollen and it feels like someone dropped a concrete block on it.

While I don't have anything nearly as cool as Ardesia's bat flower, I do have a cute little "volunteer" cardinal flower. Usually these are deep red, but this little cutey is orange. I found it while weeding and am training it along the miles of ugly field fencing that I own. It's in deep shade and I'm hoping it will bloom a bit more when it gets a little sun.

bordersandjacks- sorry to hear about your wasp sting. Ouch!@

Deb- that cleome pic is gorgeous! I need to sow some next year. sweetbay103 has some in her foundation bed that looks just perfect there. I've been very slack at sowing seeds.

sweetbay- that's a pefect picture of the TST on zinnia. Beautiful! The Lespedeza you gave me is starting to bloom.

I love that Bayse's Purple Sweetbay.

Chamthy, how large is your Cestrum parqui? I have one that looks almost identical and it is a descendant of one that was grown from a cutting that was brought from Rosemary Verey's garden years ago. I love it because it blooms all year with little care and when it gets tired looking I just whack it back into shape.

Jenny - Be careful!