Gosh yes I use to grow Chinese Lanterns too, thanks for reminding me @Pacnorwest . I wonder why I stopped growing these plants ?? They certainly added interest in the borders. It's debatable whether or not it actually does shoo the flies away @Anniekay https://www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/nicandra-physalodes
Oreti I miss Chinese lanterns they were truly a show stopping border plant and great to use the stems dried for holiday decorations. And thanks for the interesting link on the shoo fly plant. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen that plant.
It's amazing to think back to some of the plants I use to grow. It's a bit like fashion....trends come and go I suppose. Will definitely look out for some of them again.
Logan now that’s a beautiful rose and a special color for fall . Pinks are a fav color in the late season garden. It always offers a nice contrast of color against the background of foliage greens that can sometimes over take the late summer gardens. That’s why I also try to included a lot of different colors of small evergreen shrubs like the pinks, reds, yellows, lime greens and blue greens to hold winter interest once fall ends and deciduous leaves have all fallen . Once they shed their gorgeous fall colors leaving the stage for winters color to maintain the beauty of contrasting colors to keep the winter garden alive and to hold interest. These amazing evergreen shrubs and trees never allow the snowy season to entirely abolish garden color that make our gardens glow with color even in snowy winters.
Spotted Orange Tiger Lily Cleome started from seed and it reseeds every year it;s still holding up while others are setting seed. One orange dish sized dahlia . Eucalyptus leaf - flower buds.
Lovely Pac, especially the stunning Orange Tiger Lily. All our Cleome have / are setting seed now, I collected some from most of them and they are now safely stored in the fridge.
Stunning fotos, Pac and Pac. That tiger Lilly is perhaps old-fashioned, but it is so lovely it never looses its allure.
This is what we call a “boomblauwtje” on a fall aster. Annie— wonderful fotos and the Ipomoea is a beaut.
In German that butterfly is a Blumenbauer. So close to the Dutch !! In english it translates to: "Flower Builder". That pic is going to win the next contest, you watch !! That Ipomea is a Grampa Ott.
Cool rainbow !! Did someone die? I thought rainbows were infrequent in the UK. I heard that on TV, ( don't know how accurate that was). When the Queen passed away (I think she didn't go on her own, but I digress... ) the reported that there was a rainbow over the Palace and that rainbows were infrequent ???
