October Bloomday

October, a month that can be both miserable and gorgeous here in Portland. Miserable when there's nonstop grey cloudy skies and rain, gorgeous when we get those crisp sunny days when the colors of autumn shine. We're currently in the midst of gorgeous and I'm loving it. For this month's Bloomday post I walked out the backdoor and started snapping photos as I came across blooms, they're posted in that same order...
Anemone 'Honorine Jobert' has been blooming since early September. I will find a place in the garden to plant her (she's currently in a container) and welcome her spreading ways. Maybe then I'll finally feel like I can cut some of these beauties and bring them inside?
The volunteer 'Sungold' tomato is the only tomato still in the garden. The others were pulled last month. This one has several fruit, which may or may not ripen, and a ton of blooms. I'm enjoying it's determination to just keep going, even though it's October.

I cut back all the Impatiens omeiana in the heat of the summer, when they'd been so trashed by insect damage they ceased to look good. Whaddya know? They regrew and are blooming again.

Schefflera brevipedunculata
Schefflera delavayi blooms (the frothy bits) and Clematis tibetana var. vernayi...
So many Clematis blooms!

And really, the Schefflera blooms are the perfect complementary backdrop.

That bee, heading into the flower on the top right-ish side? He dive-bombed me a half-dozen times while I was taking these photos. I was definitely annoying him.
Abutilon Nuabyell, in bud and flower — as it has been most of the summer.

Ditto for Abutilon Nuabatang...

After its eruption of flowers last week, the Passiflora lutea has slowed. There are still buds though, so I am hopeful.

Leo is still looking grand (Leonotis leonurus).

The golden Syneilesis aconitifolia kept catching my eye, as though it was a yellow flower that needed to have its photo taken.

Passiflora 'Amethyst Jewel' is not slowing down! (P. 'Snow Queen' was a no show)

I don't think I've shared the small white flowers of Persicaria microcephala ‘Red Dragon’ yet this year, even though they've been blooming for months.

I thought the Bougainvillea was done for the season, then I spotted a couple of small blooms — it's been going since May.
Mahonia eurybracteata 'Soft Caress'

A dried up Bromeliad flower, that still looks fantastic.
Venturing out to the front garden now, and the Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple' wanted to strut its stuff in a photo, I obliged. But that Schizostylis coccinea ‘Oregon Sunset’ is what I was aiming the camera at.

Isn't it fabulous?

Okay, not flowers, but rather seeds...Amosonia hubrichtii.
Rosemary.     

Not flowers but fruit, Poncirus trifoliata.
Mahonia x media 'Charity', on the verge.

T
x Fatshedera lizei ‘Annemieke’

Close-up
Hakonechloa macra

The race between the Tetrapanax papyrifer buds, and the killing frost, has begun. Will this finally be the year they bloom all over the Pacific Northwest? Only time will tell...

Verbascum blattaria, from Tamara.

She gave me three plants, one of which had stems with brown seed pods, but what do you know, there are flowers! Love the basal foliage most of all.

Finally, my long suffering Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum 'Hindwarf' is throwing out a few blooms. If only it got more water! That's a wrap on the blooms here, check out May Dreams Gardens and all the bloggers sharing flower photos over there.

Weather Diary, Oct 14: Hi 70, Low 42/ Precip 0

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