October blooms — Part 2
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- October
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More October flowers from my yard.
Montauk daisies. The foliage gets a bit tattered, but such nice white blooms late in the season.
Mums.
Roses. Here’s Flower Carpet ‘Scarlet,’ I think.
Flower Carpet ‘Amber.’
Garden phlox, another one that just goes and goes this year.
Tansy, a natural bug repellent.
Rudbeckia, or black-eyed Susans. I don’t remember ever having them this late. Love these guys.
Same for echinacea, or purple coneflower.
Buddleia, or butterfly bush.
A dwarf rose of Sharon that somebody sent me to try. The whole ‘shrub’ is about 12 inches tall.
I have these great tall (8 feet) and late sunflowers; can’t remember where I ordered them.
And now it’s time for fall foliage to shine. Love the color of this new (to me) gooseneck loosestrife. What a pleasant surprise.
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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.
Bill:
Nice pictures and so wonderful to have your plants still blooming well this late into the fall. I could never get my phlox to grow without mildew when I lived in the northeast.
Your pictures bring back many memories of days gone by.
[ Jeff ]
Thanks for writing, Jeff. Try the new Volcano phlox—they don’t seem to get the powdery mildew, even in wet summers like the one we just had.