Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
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The geranium is still blooming. It’s entering it’s third winter now, and is a little worse for age…still…I wonder how long I can keep it alive?
The Mexican heather is in full bloom still and the bees are buzzing around it during the day. There are so many of them, the bushes actually hum.
The butterfly weed is blooming, almost for the first time this year, as it’s been munched on pretty steadily by caterpillars.
The hibiscus have been happy, especially with all the rain the last week.
Note the color of this bloom. All four of the hibiscus bushes I have bloom in THIS color. Why is that important? Well, look at this:
I think I may have a sport! This really is the color of this flower. It’s a pretty color, but rather unusual. I’ll have to wait for more of the buds on the same branch to open (if they do), to see if it’s a one of a kind, or a branch that’s sported.
The hyacinth bean is winding down, after putting on a big show a couple of weeks ago.
The pods are ripening……
and turning brown with the ripened seeds. I’ll have a good harvest this year of the seeds. Alas, I didn’t get many seed pods from the moon vine this year, so I’ll have to buy some new seeds for this Spring.
The Pinata rose is blooming. They positively glowed this afternoon. Even later on this evening, as the light was dimming, they were incandescent
It’s as if they’re lit from within.
Can you imagine my surprise this afternoon when I found that the fig tree was actually putting on FIGS??? It’s never done that before…ever. I wonder if they’ll ripen so late in the season.
One of the fuchsias I thought I’d lost a couple of months ago is also putting on more blooms. I do believe Ike’s affects are lingering in the oddest of ways.
This morning glory wasn’t on a trellis, or a wall. It was smack dab on the ground. The vines run everywhere. I swear, someday, if my house goes missing, it will be beneath a blanket of morning glory vines.
I’ve always known this plant/flower by the name “Wandering Jade” or “Purple Jade”. Sr. Medina says that in Mexico, it’s called “Pico de Gallo” (rooster’s beak). The leaves do look a bit like a chicken’s beak.
The Texas tarragon, or Mexican Mint Marigold has been blooming nonstop since late September. It attracts bees, butterflies and a fair number of different kinds of wasps.
I tried to take a rather prosaic picture of this calendula, but I had a rather unexpected and, I think, a spectacular photo. I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it. I was using the old Nikon coolpix 4500, on a very bright, sunny early afternoon sun, on the southern side of the property. I’m not sure how to reproduce this happy accident, but I’ll accept the gift.
The bougainvillea is now blooming on the variegated foliage branches….at last. It’s been almost 3 years since it’s done that.
New in my garden, for this month, are a selection of violas. I like this little face. Oh, note the little bruise on my poor thumb…it’s where I missed when hammering in a nail. Well, actually it was more than one nail…and more than one miss… and more than one Bad Word. I had to say it in my head though, as the West’s little girls were nearby.
Another extreme picture, caused by the bright sun. I think the camera is stuck on a fairly slow shutter speed. I kept trying to adjust it, but it wasn’t accepting the instructions. Sigh…. I love my old Nikon. I want another one.
And, another charming face coming out of the light…
The little Barbados Cherry plant is blooming. It really is a small plant right now, only about 7 inches high and perhaps 8 inches wide. The plant tag doesn’t say that it’s a dwarf plant, but I wouldn’t be unhappy if it turned out to be, as it would fit the scale of my house and yard best. It has had a few ripened fruits. I tried one and it wasn’t too bad… mostly seed, and probably not worth fighting the birds for, but not bad.
The Angel Wing jasmine is blooming still, and looks as if it wants to bloom for a while longer. It’s growing through the fence, into the front yard, which faces south, so it might just get to do that for a while longer.
Most of the roses in the front yard are on pause right now, between bloom outs. The bad thing about having had all of them in bloom all at once after the storm, is that they are now all on the same hiatus for a bit. But, isn’t that a handsome bug? It’s not a particularly welcomed one, but it’s handsome, in its own weird way.
Ms Belinda is still blooming, of course. She just never stops. However, honestly prompts me to say that this is just about the only branch still blooming and I think it’s just a little behind the rest, as it’s a brand new branch. I need to give all the roses a hair cut.
The Mealy Sage is blooming, weakly, as usual. I need to 1) re pot the plant and 2) feed the dickens out of it.
Right now, a lot of the plants in the back yard are under a frost blanket. It’s not supposed to get down to freezing, but better safe, than sorry. Besides, I had Sr. Medina and son here today and we made a green house.
Yes, we did!
That story is for tomorrow.
