Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - September 2015

Autumn seems to have come a bit early to my Southeast Texas garden this year. According to the calendar, it doesn't arrive until next week, but if you ignore that clue and just concentrate on the weather, you would swear it has been here these last few days. We have had glorious, sun-filled days with temperatures in the 80s F. It has been wonderful! 

More wonderful still, some of my plants are putting on a late flush of bloom just in time for Bloom Day. 


Pineapple sage has been a dependable bloomer all summer long.

More members of the sage family - autumn sage in front and the purple in back is 'Mystic Spires' salvia.

A few of the oxblood lilies are still blooming.

The inland sea oats are blooming, also, although you would hardly know it unless you gave them a second look. Those "blooms" will become a bit more colorful and noticeable as autumn advances.

Crossvine puts on its big display in the spring, of course, but, like many spring-blooming vines, it also gives us a few flowers in late summer/early fall.

The abelia blooms throughout the summer

Purslane continues to add color to its back porch planter.

The jatropha is beginning to bloom, too. Those long, narrow leaves are lemongrass which lives next to it. 

Bi-colored 4 o'clocks.

And fuchsia 4 o'clocks.

A few of the milk and wine lilies continue to send out the occasional blossoms.

Orange cosmos.

The cypress vine is loving the cooler weather.

The old pink crape myrtle continues to bloom.

As does the watermelon-colored crape, seen here against an autumn-blue sky.  

Butterfly ginger smells heavenly.

Yellow lantana.

Purple trailing lantana. The white berries on the plant in back are beautyberries. 

Wedelia.

Marigolds, of course. Gotta have marigolds.

The coral vine is just beginning to bloom. In another week, it should be full of these pink flowers and the bees will be ecstatic. 

It's called red milkweed, although it looks more orange to me.

And yellow milkweed. Monarchs seem to prefer the orange (red) - maybe because it better matches their wing color.

Blue plumbago.

Hamelia patens, also called hummingbird bush.

Yellow cestrum, a butterfly and hummingbird favorite. 

Pink oleander.

One of the last blooms of the year for 'Pride of Barbados.'

And the last rose of summer this year may well be a 'Molineux' because this plant is putting on a show for me just now.

How is your garden doing here at the almost changing of the seasons? I look forward to seeing what you have in bloom and I thank you for visiting my garden this month. Also, as always, thanks to Carol of May Dreams Gardens for hosting us. 

Happy Bloom Day!

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