Here comes 15th of the month, and is time to preen and prance around the blooms. Weather Gods are being benevolent. Although the day lengths have considerably reduced, but it is more fun to be outdoors, as the temperatures have come down to cool and comfortable levels. So, here I go clicking with thanks in my heart for Carol at Maydreams gardens, for this beautiful idea of Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.
Plumbago busy encroaching others' territory.
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Currently blooming in my garden:
These flowering tobaccos (aka nicotianas) were grown from seed saved from last year.
Petunias, including two full hanging baskets that I bought for a buck each from...
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I remembered on Thursday that the 15th would be on Saturday so I rushed around the garden to get a few shots for Bloom Day. I should have remembered about the 15th since it is my wedding anniversary also. I don’t remember how long we have been married so I will have to figure out a coy way of broaching that subject. It has been awhile at this point, over 15 years but fewer than 20. Since we work together our relationship has a slightly different dynamic then most couples. . . .
September always seems like a better month in my garden than August, one unfortunate planting combination notwithstanding. My grasses start to show off their inflorescences, cutback perennials begin to rebloom, and even annuals seem to get a second wind. . . .
You may recall my sketch for this project from a month or so back... and that I was learning photoshop back in the winter. The first tangible printed results arrived today-- just the day before the day they were needed for our small town fair!
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Here are a couple more photos from my friend’s garden up the coast. Besides this bed of flowers and herbs, she and her husband have a large vegetable patch, and another of raspberries. I love the walkways and and raised beds they use, and everything is so neat and tidy. This shot was taken earlier in the summer, and that nicotiana in the middle towers over her now. The yard is full of butterflies and birds, and the water is just out front. This is my idea of a perfect Maine place.
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on Sep 15, 2007, 10:30AM
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Scientiffically unproven (probably no research) but we experience that there must be some interaction between plants. In our garden the Scelitium tomentosa grows best with the Oreocereus celcianus. It’s a kind of love affair between a cactus from South America and a hallucinatic succulent from Bushmen Land in South Africa
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Welcome to Robin's Nesting Place for September Garden Blogger Bloom Day hosted by Carol, from May Dreams Gardens.
I don't really have many new blooms for September. I'm really surprised at the repeat bloomers and those that have hung on through the unusual dry and hot summer. The new bloomers for this month are the sunflower and the Wine and Roses weigela that I planted in the spring, I wasn't expecting fall blooms but I checked and they do have a repeat fall bloom. . . .
I got the idea for this post the other day when having an email exchange with a fellow blogger, who mentioned she grew some commercial/hybrid varieties. This is the 204th post on this blog, and mostly I’ve spent the last 203 posts going over and over all the reasons why commercial varieties are bad and heirloom varieties are good. I think 99% of the time this is true. At the moment I only grow heirloom or Open Pollinated (OP) varieties. In the past I’ve certainly grown commercial/hybrid varieties and I’ll probably do it again in the future. . . .
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The winter garden in bloom with aloes and an enchanting lily endemic to South Africa.
This photo was taken slightly more to the front and in the opposite direction than the photo of the previous winter. All the daisies are not in bloom yet, which is good as they tend to dominate everything. . . .
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on Sep 15, 2007, 3:54AM
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My parents have a beautiful pumpkin ripening in their garden. A real nice one! The vine is crawling out across the lawn and my dad carefully mows around it. It looks like they will be able to make a nice jack-o-lantern for Halloween. Or a pumpkin pie. . .
Over on GardenRant this Caryopteris is being shown off, along with whatever my ranting partners have blooming today. In this photo five caryopteris are massed for a nice late-season pow. . . .
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on Sep 15, 2007, 6:37AM
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It's Gardener's Bloom Day again (it seems to come around awfully quickly). So here's what's blooming on the balcony this month ....
Surfinia. I'm proud of these because they're the ones I grew from seed this spring. It took them a while to get going, but now there's a profusion of blooms. We're having a very hot September - although the mornings can be chilly, it's still up in the eighties by the afternoon. So I hope they'll go on for a while. Only the white ones made it, although the seeds were mixed white and purple. . .
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Posted by Sue Swift Reblogged by Old Roses to flowers on 2007-09-16, 00:13:42
A few weeks ago I put the poll in the sidebar of this blog wondering if people would admit to being "seed snatchers." Not surprisingly some of the respondents didn't know what a seed snatcher was or maybe they aren't familiar with the term. I was surprised the number of people who admit to participating in the practice. . . .
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Posted by MrBrownThumb Reblogged by Old Roses to seeds on 2007-09-16, 00:12:59
So the pumpkin that I saved seeds from last year is growing like crazy and I thought there was only a vine and no pumpkins but much to my surprise and excitement there are pumpkins on there! Here are a few pics of them and my dog Charlie!
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Hi everyone! I just wanted to get something up quickly. Due to some previous commitments I haven't been able to post lately, and will not be in touch until a couple of days. I have taken some photos of the few NEW blooms and will post them later. In the meantime, here is my favorite combination of plants: Russian sage, Sunset Hyssop, Ava Agastache, Autumn Joy Sedum, Pink Cloud Saliva (on rebloom) and some other misc. plants. Also, a Silver Sage that is heading out... figured that counts as a "bloom." Have a great GBBD. I will look forward to checking in with all of you when I get back to my computer. It will be an interesting month of blooms, for sure!
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The "Hanging Basket Vandal" of Chatteris, England, has been busted. He was caught when a police officer came across his video, "Skeggsy destroying Chatteris in bloom" on MySpace.
Don't mess with the flowers in jolly old England!
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