One last garden picspam
Oct. 10th, 2009 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmegaeraFor October. I probably won't do any more pictures of the garden again until the cyclamen and reticulata iris start blooming in February.
But it still looks pretty damned good for October. Behind the cut to save my FL.
My front garden. Still quite a few things blooming, and a few things back that had taken our hot, dry August and September mostly off -- calendulas and the fairy rose in particular. There's a few chrysanthemums just beginning to bloom up next to my living room window, and the white aster behind the yellow threadleaf coreopsis is just past peak.
The back garden. There's still one or two purple clematis blossoms off to the right, but the big player now is the purple aster, just to the left of center. It's been blooming for a couple of weeks now. This is its second year, and I'm very happy with it. Other than that, it's still just the usual suspects, marigolds and rudbeckia, alyssum, snapdragons and linaria. And a couple of hollyhock blosssoms. Alas, we're supposed to have our first frost tonight, which will nail the marigolds and make everything else hunker down. I need to start cutting back (perennials) and yanking out (annuals) this week, esp. the bleeding heart that ate Puyallup (not pictured) which is looking decidedly sad these days.
A closeup of my lovely purple aster, which was another Fred Meyer special (see echinacea entry from a few weeks ago [g]).
This was a surprise. It turns out that pineapple sage blooms. I have brought its pot in this afternoon and hope to overwinter it indoors since it isn't hardy. We'll see how that goes. I also noticed my cyclamen putting out leaves about a week ago and brought it in for the winter, too. So my kitchen windowsill is full again.
This is the monkshood that I've been gassing on about all summer. It's been in bloom, blue snapdragon on steroids that really needs staking, for a couple of weeks. I do love this plant. I just wish it bloomed earlier than October.
And that is your final seasonal garden picspam, October edition. It's not going to look nearly this good after tonight's frost...
But it still looks pretty damned good for October. Behind the cut to save my FL.
My front garden. Still quite a few things blooming, and a few things back that had taken our hot, dry August and September mostly off -- calendulas and the fairy rose in particular. There's a few chrysanthemums just beginning to bloom up next to my living room window, and the white aster behind the yellow threadleaf coreopsis is just past peak.
The back garden. There's still one or two purple clematis blossoms off to the right, but the big player now is the purple aster, just to the left of center. It's been blooming for a couple of weeks now. This is its second year, and I'm very happy with it. Other than that, it's still just the usual suspects, marigolds and rudbeckia, alyssum, snapdragons and linaria. And a couple of hollyhock blosssoms. Alas, we're supposed to have our first frost tonight, which will nail the marigolds and make everything else hunker down. I need to start cutting back (perennials) and yanking out (annuals) this week, esp. the bleeding heart that ate Puyallup (not pictured) which is looking decidedly sad these days.
A closeup of my lovely purple aster, which was another Fred Meyer special (see echinacea entry from a few weeks ago [g]).
This was a surprise. It turns out that pineapple sage blooms. I have brought its pot in this afternoon and hope to overwinter it indoors since it isn't hardy. We'll see how that goes. I also noticed my cyclamen putting out leaves about a week ago and brought it in for the winter, too. So my kitchen windowsill is full again.
This is the monkshood that I've been gassing on about all summer. It's been in bloom, blue snapdragon on steroids that really needs staking, for a couple of weeks. I do love this plant. I just wish it bloomed earlier than October.
And that is your final seasonal garden picspam, October edition. It's not going to look nearly this good after tonight's frost...