Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - Oct 2017


Here inward my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden inward fundamental Indiana, the get-go of the autumn crocuses, Crocus speciosus, showed upwards inward fourth dimension for bloom day.  This genuinely is a blossom that belongs to October.

If you lot hold off closely at the picture, you'll run into a fiddling bee buzzing to a greater extent than or less it.

This fourth dimension of year, it seems every blossom has a bee or butterfly on it. They know the flavor volition shortly endure over hence they aren't wasting whatever fourth dimension when the Sun is shining together with the flowers are opened upwards for business. They want to teach whatever nectar they tin now.

The crocus is the exclusively novel bloom this month. Every other blossom inward my garden is a bloom that's asset over from before weeks, but since they are nevertheless blooming inward October, they count for bloom day.

Come together with zig-zag through the garden amongst me, checking blooms inward the guild the photos uploaded.

There are nevertheless some toad lilies, Tricyrtis sp., blooming inward the shade. I apologize I don't know what this ane is other than "variegated". It's a keeper.


I need to deadhead these Joe Pye weed seed heads or I volition bring Joe Pye weed everywhere side past times side year.


Last twelvemonth at this time, the asters were nevertheless going strong. This year, I intend the dry out land nosotros had through much of August together with September did them inward early.  Not much left of them at ane time compared to other years.


Who tin resist a monarch butterfly on a zinnia?


Or some other monarch butterfly on some other zinnia?


Wowser, this hyacinth edible bean vine didn't hold off similar much all summer, but it is knocking it out of the garden correct now.


And it is providing a prissy resting location for a monarch butterfly. There's a painted lady butterfly on there, too, but she's difficult to see.


Good ol' marigolds. They simply perish along blooming. I bet they would hold off fifty-fifty improve if I deadheaded them occasionally.


Here's an annual alyssum that's been blooming similar this since early on leap when I planted it.  (If nosotros ignore that dandelion inward the picture, perhaps it volition teach away?)


I cannot teach plenty of the novel 'At Last' shrub roses. I dearest the color. I dearest the scent. I dearest that a fiddling bee is loving them, too.


And I dearest that the 'Rozanne' geraniums I planted inward the leap are nevertheless blooming inward the front.


And I dearest these tiny bluish flowers of leadwort. They bring the big mention of Ceratostigma plumbaginoides.


That's non a pale tree trunk, that's the base of operations of my plane bath.

And that's Oct hither at .  Not a bad showing, if you lot inquire me.

What's blooming inward your garden on this fine autumn day? We would dearest for you lot to bring together inward for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day together with demo us. It's tardily to participate. Just postal service nearly what's blooming inward your garden on your blog, together with then come upwards dorsum hither together with run out a comment to say us what you've got together with a link inward the Mr. Linky widget hence nosotros know where to notice you.

"We tin bring flowers nearly every calendar month of the year." Elizabeth Lawrence.

Especially if nosotros excogitation for it!


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