Last weekend I did something that would have been completely normal at any other time in my life—that is took a little road trip up to the Seattle area to visit friends and gardens. However I am completely out of practice when it comes to travel! Five days away, with three different overnight locations, was a significant disrupter to my equilibrium. Thus this month's Bloomday snuck up on me, I've scrambled to get photos taken, edited and uploaded, but here we are...
I'd forgotten that I planted these Cyclamen hederifolium 'Xera's Sterling' last fall, their blooms were an unexpected surprise when I returned home on Monday...![]()
The front garden bougainvillea are also blooming again...yay!![]()
Walking into the back garden I discovered quite a few Passiflora 'Snow Queen' blooms had opened...
As well as a few Passiflora 'Amethyst Jewel', this one has been on a significant bloom strike since our June heat wave.
Just one small flower on the back garden's Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum.
The Persicaria microcephala ‘Red Dragon’ flowers look nice against the foliage of the variegated Daphniphyllum macropodum.
Mahonia eurybracteata 'Soft Caress'
There is just one small bloom cluster on my Aralia cordata 'Sun King'. I've been growing this plant in a container, because when I bought it I didn't have a place in the ground for it. I do now I and I plan to finally plant it out in the spring, it's going to be so happy!
That damn begonia—Begonia semperflorens ‘Harmony Plus White'—just keeps blooming,
Thalictrum ichangense 'Evening Star', also keeping on with the blooming. I think this one is about three months in.
Chasmanthium latifolium, aka northern sea oats and about a million other common names...
Last month I shared some of my other Nepenthes alata pitchers, because they're as colorful as blooms, so I thought I would share the pitchers on this plant for September.
Just below them is a blooming NOID tillandsia.
Paris polyphylla [Heronswood Form]
Way way way up high, Hibiscus syriacus 'Red Heart' is still doing it's thing.
And we'll back out of the back garden looking at the aralia, first up the tiny blooms of Schefflera brevipedunculata...
Metapanax delavayi
And a group shot with Schefflera delavayi in the starring role, up front.
That's it for my September blooms! It's been a hot and dry summer and the garden is tired. I could go on for another month or two but things are starting to show signs of turning to fall. We've got rain in the forecast for the weekend (everyone but me is excited about that) and the sunlight is no longer at it's summer angle. I'm trying to deal with the change gracefully...
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