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October 2015 Garden Bloggers Bloom Days

Just before midnight I'll get this posted for October 15 Garden Bloggers' Bloom Days. Here in middle Tennessee, we are expecting our first frost this weekend. So I got out and enjoyed the last of my summer annuals.

Zinnias - great pollinator attractor

Cosmos

Did you know that celosia attracts pollinators? This is Dragon's Breath celosia .

Dragon's Breath celosia, zinnia, trailing coleus.

Cuphea Flamenco Samba

Cuphea

Deja bloom Azalea - this azalea has been reblooming for over a month

Digitalis

Dragon's Breath celosia

Encore Azalea

My pitiful little fig harvest. Figs just starting to ripen and a we are expecting a frost this morning...

Thankyou, Carol Michael, for reminding us to get out each month and record what is blooming each month in our garden.

Digitalis (foxglove)

Red Stem Colocasia

The last of the red okra

Seven son tree (Heptacodium miconioides)

Labels: cuphea, deja bloom, Dragon's Breath celosia, encore azalea, Garden Bloggers Bloom Days, Sakata

Garden Blogger's Bloom Day - Feb. 15

Somehow I lost a day. I was excited to get photos of what was blooming in my garden for Bloom Days and realized that YESTERDAY was the 15th of the month. So here I am a day late and a dollar short but I still am loving what I see making a grand appearance in my garden.

Pink Erica, often called Mediterranean Heather, is a faithful winter bloomer in my Tennessee weather.

Though not quite in bloom yet, the deep pink of the Pieris Japonica buds and stems in late winter are fabulous.

EUPHORBIA!

Blackbird Euphorbia remains one of my all-time favorite four season plants. And I taught plant-hunter Barry Yinger that this plant name needs to be sung, not just spoken so if you meet Barry, ask him to sing you a plant name.