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For Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October 2011 I took a few snapshots of the flowers that are making the most impact in the border. However there are lots more that are just nearing the very end of their season. October might be the end of the growing season here for most of my autumn flowering plants but there are still a few that stand out in the dull borders.
The 6 ft stems are still standing tall though the plants haven’t attracted as many butterflies as last year. I stood on a stool to get up to the same level as this Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) butterfly.
Asters are my perfect pollinators at this time of year and brighten up the dull borders. My all time favourite is this purple Aster which is mildew resistant along with two from the Aster novi-belgii Island Series which are resistant to mildew too as well as being dwarf. I’ve many more but they are young plants and a few are yet to bloom.
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I have 3 medium sized clumps of yellow coneflowers. Moreover I think that this is the best year so far for these yellow daisies. It has taken the plants about 4 years to settle in the garden. However these plants are renowned for taking a long time to establish in the garden. Just like Japanese anemones they need plenty of space away from competing roots for their first few years.
This plant seems to gets lost in the garden at this time of year. I don’t think it can compete with the autumn foliage explosion going on in the other border.
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October 2011
Well it would be hard to compete with a 10ft long Cotoneaster horizontalis dripping with red berries. While alongside there’s an Euonymus alatus ‘Compacta‘ literally on fire!
A note for my records of what else is in flower on 15th October 2011:
Rosa ‘New Dawn’
Rosa ‘Flowering Carpet Red’ Standard
Sedums
Pink and Purple Petunias (annual)
White Marguerites (annual)
Clematis viticella ‘Etoile Rose’
Autumn crocus
Colchicum ‘Water Lily‘
Colchicum ‘Water Lily‘
Oestospermum (annual and perennial varieties)
Astilbe chinensis ‘Pumila’
Potentilla fruticosa ‘Red Ace’
Potentilla fruticosa – yellow (lost label)
Purple Prunella vulgaris
Bernie
Superb photos of some beautiful flowers. The Asters certainly brightened up my day. They are lovely. The Cotoneaster and Eunonymous shot really took my breath away though. Simply gorgeous!
amatterofhowyouseeit.com
Stunning red tones in the last image. Gorgeous composition too.
lotusleaf
Beautiful flowers!
Ellie
Beautiful pictures – you still have some lovely colours in your garden.
kanak7
There's still so much colour in your garden. Your photos are fabulous!!
gardenwalkgardentalk.com
I always look forward to your GBBD photos. They are so beautiful and full of life! The dripping cotoneaster really pops, in the garden and your image.
carolynsshadegardens.com
That last photo really is spectacular. We aren't really into fall color season yet but the fall flowers will be coming to an end soon.
Cat
The Cotoneaster and Eunonymous are stunning! They must just stop you in your tracks anytime you walk past!
Commonweeder
Beautiful photographs. I am so jealous you can grow caryopteris.
Megan
Beautiful photography!
NellJean
I haven't tried to grow caryopteris since the last lot drowned when the garden flooded. What a lovely inspiration.
The Sage Butterfly
The cotoneaster is stunningly beautiful…it surely is dripping with berries! Happy GBBD!
Ronnie/A New Decade
Oh my! I am breathless, what absolutely fabulous photos. Thank you.
noel
aloha,
so nice that butterfly did that pose for you…the photos are great esp the selective focus and range in depth of field rosie!
dorothy
Your photography and flowers are just amazing! I am growing tall verbena this year for the first time and have been very happy with it in the mid border. It also serves as a support for the yellow cosmos. Thanks for sharing your lovely photos. And I really like the cotoneaster. I think I will look for that one!
Birdwoman
Oooh, such wonderful colors! Your photography is amazing. I particularly like the very first picture with the Red Admiral, one of my favorite butterflies.
HolleyGarden
Your verbena is 6 ft tall! Wow! Asters are one of my favorites, too. But your "red" picture is absolutely gorgeous!
scottweberpdx
Absolutely beautiful post! I agree about the Asters…they really add some much-needed vibrant color to the garden at this time of year…which is exactly why I need more!
greggo
Wow! Love your photos. as always. the rudbeckia photo is pristine, so much depth. My favorite.
Gatsbys Gardens
Rosie, just gorgeous photos! I gorw asters, but am never totally pleased with them come fall. I have a potted one now that I may keep in the garden, very controlled and seems to have escaped the diseases.
Eileen
Rose
Rosie, you have the perfect fall bloomers. The caryopteris has such lovely blue blooms, but I can see why it might get "lost" this time of year–that last photo is dazzling! Happy Bloom Day!
My garden haven
Rosie, I haven't been visiting, and what a surprise for GBBD. Your presentation is just fantastic! The first photo takes my breath away.Lovely post.
Rosie
Andrea
Even if you say your garden is fading, your photos are always outstanding. Are you not joining the GGW photos contest, i am sure you have plenty of photos fitting the 'fill the frame' subject. I love most your two photos, may i know what lens you used for them? Thanks Rosie.
leavesnbloom
Andrea I didn't know about the competition. The lens I used was a canon f1.4 50mm lens. I've checked my exif data and I was shooting wide open at 1.4 hence the reason for the very shallow DOF and that wonderful bokeh. I'm not so sure but I quite possibly manually focused those shots aswell that you liked.
Lona
What Beautiful blooms your are showing in this posting. The Asters are so beautiful.
The Fall colors on the Cotoneaster is wonderful.
Kristi
Amazing photos of gorgeous fall flowers. Happy Bloom day.
Curbstone Valley Farm
I love your GGW submission Rosie, but I've become rather partial to Rudbeckias lately. The Cotoneaster made me cringe a little. The photograph is gorgeous, and the colors are stunning, but I spent three days this year ripping Cotoneaster plants out of our wildland area (they're invasive here). Still pretty though, I just wish they didn't take over parts of our woodland!
The Dog Blog
Never would any cotoneaster be the top of my list but your C horizontalis looks fabulous