Blooms for October
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- October
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Just because it’s October doesn’t mean you can’t still have lots of flowers in your garden.
Here are a few long-lasting and late bloomers I’ve shot around my yard in the past 2 to 3 weeks.
Cosmos, probably my favorite annual, in shades of pink, red and white.
Marigolds, which I normally don’t like, but I’ve heard they keep pests away from tomatoes (not that anything would have helped my tomatoes this year). So I tried a few, inside the deer netting around my sad tomato plants.
I realize it’s the pure yellow or orange ones I can’t stand.
Lots and lots of asters this year. They just go and go and go this fall.
My geraniums seemed to like the weather this year.
‘Heavenly Blue’ morning glories — what a great shade of blue. These took forever to get going this year.
Sedum ‘Autumn Joy,’ another old favorite.
Tithonia, or Mexican sunflower, another slow and late bloomer this year. Monarch butterflies love this one, but I saw so few (any?) of them this year.
And I’m always a sucker for the dark red and purple mums and asters at the local farm stand.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
