October Garden

     Just a few pictures of flowers and shrubs still doing their thing in my October Garden.
Dahlia Vancouver sure took it's time to bloom, as usual, but it is blooming now and the hibiscus still has a few flowers on it even though all the leaves have fallen off. The zinnias continue to amaze me even though they have powdery mildew. The cosmos are still looking blooming and look so pretty with raindrops or morning dew.

Dahlia Vancouver

Dahlias

Hibiscus

Morning glory

Zinnia State Fair

Burning Bush

Bright Burning Bush Leaf

Fall Display

Cosmos

Cosmos

Autumn Colour

Here are just a few pictures I took in late October in my yard. 

Burning Bush

Morning glory flowers 

Viburnum Leaves so orderly 

Viburnum Leaves

Burning Bush

Dicentra Luxuriant still blooming

A late blooming Cosmos

Maple

May in My Garden

         Late may has finally brought some warm sunshine to my yard, and here are a few photos I want to share with you. The first photo is a picture of a burning bush shrub, with it's tiny yellow flowers. We usually only see photos of these plants in the fall with their bright red foilage, but they look pretty now too. Next are some feverfew leaves taken after some rain. This plant seeds itself quite aggressively, so I'm not sure if it is a blessing or a curse. Then there's my bleeding heart, new allium that came in a mix (so I don't know the name) and Sicilian honey garlic. This one really needed to be staked, but it's a new one to me so they are flopping all over. Then my new painted daisy plant, one of the few tulips the deer didn't eat, and spiraea buds and leaves.
    I decided to do a foliage container for my patio, so I bought some ornamental sweet potato vines for it. This is the first time I have grown them so I was very surprised to find this flower on one of the plants a week later. I couldn't resist the pink and white verbena, so I cheated on the all foliage container and added this in to the mix.
     I found a cool new plant in the nursery that I have never seen or heard of before, with giant sized pink blooms, almost like fuchsias on steroids. Have any of you ever grown one?
   Last of all is a photo of our cat Oliver who turned one year old this month. Happy Gardening!

Burning Bush

Feverfew with raindrops

Bleeding Heart Luxuriant

Allium

Sicilian Honey Garlic

Painted Daisy

Dream Touch Tulip

Spiraea

Sweet Potato Vine

Verbena

Oliver one years old

Autumn Colour

        "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower"  by Albert Camus is one of my favorite fall quotes, and so very true. By now, most of the leaves have fallen, so some of these photos were taken a few weeks ago. A few years ago I bought a little maple to grow in a container on my patio, but after several years of the leaf tips turning brown every summer, I decided to plant it in the ground. It is much happier now, and no brown leaves! This spring I bought a new shrub to replace my elderberry that died, and even though it is still small, I love the colours of the leaves, both in the summer and now. 
  I attempted to grow cantaloupe this summer, even though our summers are too cool for them, and what did I get? One little cantaloupe that I babied with a cold frame into early October and wasn't quite ripe when I picked it, but we sure enjoyed it! There's also a few blooms left, and a picture of our kitten Oliver who is six months old now. What are your favorite plants for fall colour? 

Maple

Maple leaves

Burning bush

Burning bush and Chester

Ninebark and Viburnum

Cantaloupe

Choisya ternata

One Last Cosmos bloom

Oliver with some summer annuals still blooming

Autumn Garden

Here it is, October is nearly done and I still haven't blogged! So here are a few quick photos from this month. The star of my October garden is my burning bush, and here you can see the leaves, strewn across the pathway. I had no idea this would look so nice when I planted this shrub here. My only regret is that I can never see this bush from inside my house. Next up is a little chrysanthemum plant that I bought for 99 cents, well worth the price I think. Then there is the chrysanthemum from last year. It really did well this year for some unknown reason. Next is a solitary bloom from a Malva. I think it is a seedling from the Malva I bought last fall, which never overwintered. I'm still picking the grape tomatoes that are growing under cover, and I have two peppers left on my pepper plant. I'll definitely be growing these prolific peppers again next year. Our cat Tiger celebrated her 16th birthday a few weeks ago. That is about 80 in human years, and for the most part, she acts 80 too, ha ha.

Pathway strewn with Burning Bush Leaves

Burning Bush

Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums overwintered from last year

Chrysanthemums

Malva Braveheart

Red Bull's Horn Peppers

Little tomatoes still producing

Tiger on her 16th Birthday

Dew on the grass