I’m interrupting my Vegan MoFo posts today, because it’s the 15th of the month, and time for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. Every month, hundreds of bloggers from around the world take a moment to photograph whatever is blooming in their gardens, and share those photos on their garden blogs. If you’re a gardener, please join in.
Here’s what’s blooming in my North Texas garden today:
In both the front and back yards, pansies. I don’t usually plant too many annuals, but this year, I caved in to the pansies. They’re the first flower I could identify by name as a child, because my grandmother told me to look for the little faces.
The lantana in the backyard herb garden is giving it one last blast. It’s getting pretty cold at night now, so I expect this beauty to go to sleep any day. This was a particularly lovely lantana, and since she’s an annual, she won’t be waking up again in the spring. I took cuttings yesterday, which I’m going to try to root and nurse through the winter inside. Perhaps her children will appear in the garden next spring.
The full fence line of honeysuckle is blooming right now. I think it’s confused. I don’t remember it blooming at this time last year. The bees and butterflies love these flowers.
It’s not blooming, but the nandina is full of berries. I love that it does this right before the holidays. It’s a very festive thing to have right outside the kitchen window.
It was overcast today, so this was the best okra bloom photo I could get. These flowers are so beautiful—like large, creamy hibiscus blooms. I’d grow okra just for the flowers, even if it didn’t produce abundant little pods of veggie goodness.
Even though the eggplant vines have all but stopped producing, and are destined to be pulled out soon, they’re still flowering like crazy. Lots of big, purple nodding flowers for the bees to enjoy.
In the front yard, the yellow Knockout roses are blooming faster than I can deadhead them. I don’t care what Neil Sperry says, I love my yellow Knockouts.
The purple beds are blooming all over the place. One of the lavenders made it through the summer, and has started to bloom again. Autumn sage in purple and rasberry are doing really well. The raspberry in particular has spread out and burst into flower. Lavender lantana is still going strong, though it’s just about time for it to go away. I took cuttings of this one, as well.
Even the rosemary is blooming. this year, all the mature rosemarys seem to be covered in purple flowers.
That’s it for this month. I put in my first spring seed order this week, so it’s time to start plotting and planning for next year!
