This is the time of cleaning up the garden and moving plants around. Things are still blooming, but some plants are done and cutting those back or moving them around is the order of the day.
The zinnias are still going strong. The interesting thing about zinnias is that seeds from the same packet can yield flowers you weren’t expecting. This is supposed to be queenie orange lime (and yeah, it’s not pink like the post title, but whatever 🙂 )
I got a lot of these from this particular packet and this is not a type of seed that I would buy for my garden. Then I found a patch of what I was supposed to get:
It’s a little past prime, but you get the idea. Quite different flowers. I don’t know if that is just seeds getting mixed in or that the seeds didn’t turn out like the parent plant. We shall never know. I’m going to save some seeds from the above flower and see what happens next year.
Now for some pinks! This is penta, which is in a pot with some other flowers and is the only one blooming right now:
Some petunias that are still putting out blooms:
We have had some really cold nights. This morning it was 37 degrees. Some of my plants are toast now, like the impatiens. They just disappear in a cold snap, almost like they melt. I was surprised to see the tropical mandevilla just fine:
It won’t live through the winter, but I am curious if I cover it with a ton of mulch if it will come back. Can’t hurt to try! This bed has been thinned out and I moved a couple plants around.
The mandevilla blooms are just so pretty:
The big white hydrangea is being all pretty now as the blooms turn pink:
It’s like a strawberry sundae!
The autumn joy sedum has turned and the buds opened up:
You can’t really see them too well, but there were at least 10 bees crawling over the flowers.
Bee says “Can’t talk now lady – gathering pollen!”
I’m going to divide that sedum up in the spring into 3 chunks and find new homes for two of the pieces.
You can tell fall is almost here because an email notice came that my tulip bulb order has shipped! It should be here next week. I got tulips and a bunch of allium.
Have a great weekend!
The tiny sedum flowers are so pretty!! I love the close up shot that you included. All of the pink flowers are beautiful and I hope most survive the winter. Hard to believe you are having such cold nights; we just lost two of our blooming plants due to it being so hot.
I love all the bees on the sedum. It’s fun to get right up close to them because they do not care one bit. They are all about the pollen.
You might know this, I did not. A neighbor told me, I tried it, it works: do not have to dig and divide a sedum (unless you want a bigger plant in your bed, or one is too big, etc.), can simply cut a small stem off the plant and stick it in the dirt and it will grow. I have a bed that is 1/3 sedum. There were several “empty patches” where I could not dig because of tree roots. I used her trick and it worked.
Sedums are great for propagating that way. Mine is a bit too big, so it needs dividing.
I have those two type of zinnias also, from the same seed packet – weird. I prefer the pom pom ones.
I learned something from you and wanted to thank you. My million bells had become 13 bells because some little thing was eating all of the blooms. I don’t mind a bit of nibbling, but this was crazy. I used neem oil and it worked like a charm.
How strange that we both had the same result! Neem oil is a lifesaver. I kept away powdery mildew from my peonies this year. I do need to spray my roses with it because something this fall is eating all the leaves. it never ends LOL
Pretty pretty! I ordered that same zinnia from Select Seeds and none of them grew! So I just bought a variety pack at the nursery. I ordered bulbs from John Scheepers but I think mine won’t come until November.
How strange. It must be a bad crop of seeds.