Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day: September Slacker's Edition
OK, I shirked my Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day duties yesterday and instead took advantage of the glorious fall weather to go gallivanting around the countryside - eating cider donuts and trying to work them off. When we got back home, I invented a BHT bread salad for dinner. The basil is still blooming, by the way.
But I took a few notes in Northern Virginia on Thursday and I think this is the last act of the flower show there. A couple of things bloomed and disappeared in between August 15 and September 15 - Cyclamen hederifolium and Zephyranthes candida. I'm hoping they'll return, since we finally got some good rain on Friday. The Japanese anemone 'Honorine Jobert' found that drought was not to her liking, but she may show a few sulky flowers by next week.
Newly blooming since August 15 are (links are to my photos):
Garlic chives (Allium tuberosum) (note to self: research the use of the flower buds in Chinese cooking)
Magenta-purple aster (survived the bunny attack!)
'Autumn Joy' sedum, aka dryer lint flower
'Vera Jameson' sedum
Boltonia asteroides 'Snowbank'
Hosta 'Pewterware'
Solidago 'Fireworks' (I hesitate to include this, it's just barely started blooming)
Eupatorium rugosum 'Chocolate' (ditto)
Still here, but it's time for them to get off the stage:
Cosmos 'Picotee'
Morning Glory 'Star of Yelta', and would you believe that this flower makes...
Salvia guarantica 'Black and Blue' look washed out?
Various agastaches
Four O'Clock
Verbena bonariensis
Coleus
Rudbeckia 'Gloriosa Daisy'
Gazania 'Daybreak Mix'
Salvia coccinea 'Coral Nymph'
Asclepias tuberosa (just a few tiny florets left)
Hibiscus syriacus 'Blue Satin'
Passiflora incarnata (now with fruit!)
Various Cupheas
Various Lantanas
Torenia 'Duchess Mix'
Various Petunias
Eupatorium coelestinum
Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam'
Alyssum 'Navy Blue' and 'Snowdrift'
Various Buddleias
Calamintha nepetoides
Caryopteris x cladonenesis (I never noticed that the tiny petals are exquisitely fringed)
I'll do the central Virginia ones in a separate post, maybe tomorrow.
Labels: in bloom
10 Comments:
Your Saturday sounds like it was a lot of fun. I'm envious. I was working on the lawn all day, mowing and overseeding.
Lots blooming in Virginia! Thanks for posting for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day.
Carol at May Dreams Gardens
Carol, thanks for hosting! We probably should have been working on the lawn, but the donuts were calling to us ;-)
What a color on that 'Star of Yelta' - if I don't watch out my whole garden will be blue and white, and invisible at 6 paces.
Your list is long, Entangled, and it's always fun to see what we have in common like the cupheas. I forgot to write down coral nymph, too - another of those dependable reseeders!
Mmmmm, donuts....
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Hi there, Entangled
Finally I have my post for GBBD up to :-) Great list and fantastic photos! Funny you should mention the Japanese Anemone as that’s my favourite in the garden at the moment – but we had a very wet summer in Scotland! I'm glad you enjoyed your donuts :-)
Yum... cider donuts. :)
What do you have planted around your caryopteris? I have always loved the looks of those but haven't been able to figure out a good place to show them off. (I considered a hedge, but... they're fairly open in habit, no?)
Did somebody say donuts? ;-) What a long list of blooms you have still and we have some in common too I see.
These days you need to take advantage of every sunny day there is. They are getting scarce now.
BTW my blooms are up too.
Dear Entangled, its always a pleasure coming to your blog b'coz ther is so much new and fresh for the eyes to feast upon.The Sedum 'Autumn Joy' looks very interesting indeed.The cyclamen flower appears very delicate too.
Annie: I was thinking about doing a post about my blue and white border ;-), but that's a good point about blue flowers disappearing in the distance. I think 'Star of Yelta' may be the same as the more popular 'Grandpa Ott' morning glory. They look the same to me, at least in pictures.
Shirl: I'll be right over after I type this! I love Japanese anemones - I sure hope I see some flowers from mine. I don't know why the weather people can't ever get the rain right ;-)
Blackswamp Girl: Well, um, er, I may not have the caryopteris in quite the right place yet. The one in the picture is in front of some bridal veil spireas, which make a fairly opaque background, but there isn't much contrast. I have another group in front of a P.G. hydrangea, and close to a variegated macrophylla hydrangea. This is better, but still doesn't really show the caryopteris to advantage. They are sort of see-through. I'm thinking lately that they might look best just in a clump by themselves with some groundcover-type thing at their feet. Or maybe a dark-foliaged shrub behind them? But that might look a bit chilly? Or...?
Yolanda Elizabet: I can't believe how much the light has changed just in the last couple of weeks - the shadows are so long and dark now. We usually get good sunny days through October, and I hope to take advantage of all of them!
Green Thumb: Thank you so much for the nice compliment! I get tropical-envy looking at your blog ;-), but I'm always surprised that our gardens have many plants in common.
All: The donuts at Carter Mountain Orchard are pretty good donuts, but my relatives in Illinois get even better ones at Edwards Orchard. Apparently, there's no website, but see here.
I love the Zephyranthes candida but won't plant another sedum. Our sedums seemed to grow too tall and fell over leaving an untidy sprawling mess. Be interested what's growing in Central VA.
Ki: FWIW, I've noticed that those of my Autumn Joy plants which are in better soil are floppier than the ones in nasty hard clay. Also noticed that some of the Zephyranthes candida are blooming again today. The central Virginia post is up, but it's recycled from last weekend. Everything still looks about the same.
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