Fall Blooms & Color

Canna orange punch, always blooming

new plant this year
Trachelium

Heliconia parrot's beak

mother of thousands.

yellow cestrum, always blooming

morning glory

Rose of Sharon.

I was at a Master Gardener's sale for my area this weekend and the speaker recommended the yellow cestrum. She said it was one of the most carefree plants she had. Can someone familiar with this plant in Texas tell me the best way to care for it? I planted it in an area where it will be in almost full sun, with the best drainage I can manage with my clay based soil.(it's in a raised bed)thanks nancy

Here is a Bird of Paradise. I don't know the correct name and if anyone does I would like to know more about it. I have had it for 4 years in a pot and not one single bloom..I put in ground about 1 month ago and I have 3 blooms.
Jodie

Jodester ~ I'm not real familiar with it as I got my first one this summer. I don't think it will over winter in ground for you but amazing how that triggered the blooms.

Canna blooms here from the IKE spike...

Teacup ~ look above here at Placenciaritas' post ~ Sept. 28 post at 7:02 am. She grows the yellow Cestrum and I am sure will share her knowledge.

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Ya'll are such an inspiration, I went through all this year 'show me your bloom pics'. It was so much fun to day dream about next years garden.

Julia Childs rose and Victoria Blue salvia

Spirit of Freedom

moon flowers and roses

And here's my attempt to fake a willow.lol I cut down an akebia (sp?) vine that was ill placed and keeping my fingers crossed it will come back grow on this iron tree. I love the way the vines already look like part of the iron tree trunk.

You will have to show us how that looks next year. All the gardens are so nice, I wish I could be there in person.
Here are my spiders. When would you suggest digging up one to give to a friend?

I found this nice little clematis blooming between the grasses and sage.

Bananna ~ wait till the foilage has died and turned yellow. The foliage is how it stores nutrients for next years blooms.

Cocoa ~ I like the "iron tree". Looking forward to next summers' view.

Anna, anytime your in the neighborhood, stop on by:0)

Pod, I stripped and cut so many vines and leaves, I hope they'll be a next year for them.lol

Matt Welch's Pink Beautyberry, found in the wild woods of East Texas.

The mockingbirds fight each other getting these berries every evening.
They're almost worse than hummers at a feeder.

I love Beautyberries. Their blooms smell good and attract bees for pollinators.

This unknown bloomer opens every Fall. It is on the edge of the drive, deposited by birds I suspect. It is a cheerful reminder of Fall.

I love beauty berries too. I had heard that they were great for attracting birds. I had to take down my bird feeders in August (rats in the neighborhood) and lost all my birds that attended the feeders. But, just tonight, I had two mockingbirds visit my beauty berries. Unusual because I don't normally have a lot of mockingbirds.

Fall Asters starting up!

Sleepy daisies still going at it!

And a visitor on the Frostweed. Don't know what kind it is...

I believe that's an American Lady. I have a big patch of Frostweed by the dry creek and it's been a big bee and butterfly magnet since it started blooming. I've also got a couple of Frostweed in the yard, but most of the butterflies just head out there where there's tons of those plants blooming away. It's really amazing! The bees buzzing you can hear before you even get close.

Wow, am I glad to see the asters! I've been wondering when mine would start blooming. I just noticed yesterday that it is covered with buds. But none have opened yet.

Linda, I sure agree. I have frostweed for the first time this year (from Josephine last fall). I can't belieeeeeeeve how many bees and butterflies they attract. Mine are right next to a butterfly bush. That whole area is just covered with activity.

Antiquedrose, those BBs are so pretty!

Same here with the Frostweed (thank you, Josephine!) I keep gushing over it, to the point that DH has asked "why my weeds are more special than his"lol

Yes, the Frostweed is doing a super job of feeding all of the fall insects, here and at the fielder house too.

I thought Frostweed needed shade. How is it next to butterfly bush? I am confused as usual.

Frostweed works great in shade or sun, very versatile.

I didn't know it would grow in shade, Anna, so mine's in one of my sunniest spots. I'm glad to know, though, so thanks, Josephine. Mine needs moved, and that gives me more options.

Don't move it Patti, let me bring you some young Frostweed plants to the RU. I have a lot of small ones this year. I love it! It is also a host plant for several butterflies; two are the Silvery Checkerspot and the Bordered Patch.

My Maximillian Sunflowers are making the bigges showing this week!

Teacup, it seems as if you did everything right already. I have been growing the cestrum for a few years now. I have both the yellow and the orange. One is growing in half day sun and the other is in full sun. The one growing in full sun seems to grow faster than the other, but both have been blooming profusly since spring. They will thrive with very little care.

Sheila, if you have a couple of extra little frostweeds, that would be great. Easier than moving these big guys I have. I did not know they got so big!

Does anyone here grow the red cestrum? http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/92086/ Someone sent me two last spring, and I just love the little red flowers. I was just wondering if there was anything special I should do for them.

Thanks for the compliments, I'm certainly enjoying everyone's snapshots.

I love Beautyberry and will get a classic purple next time I see one. There will be Variegated Beautyberry for sale at the SFA plant sale. As Dawn Stover describes it: "This lovely selection is known for it's stable, variegated foilage and tolerance to full sun. Berries are white and tend to dissappear into the foliage, but it's absolutely worth growing despite this."

I wasn't planning on getting one, but I just may. (This is how I go overboard)

Confederate Rose

Caldwell Pink Rose

very nice pictures antiquedrose, I have a few, nearly wild roses blooming again, but the pinks always fade out in my pictures

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Air potato vine