Thursday, October 8, 2009

Blooming Friday -- Gold and Purple


October in the garden is predominantly gold and purple.

A volunteer goldenrod (Solidago rugosa) and
Buddelia 'Petit Indigo' with a roaming perennial sweet pea.


Mexican petunia, which begins in early fall and continues until a heavy frost.



Swamp sunflower (Helianthus angustifolius) is even more vivid
than Bidens, if that's possible, because it's more of a golden color.


It's not Halloween yet, but this flower always reminds me of Nancy Byrd Turner's poem "Black and Gold".


There is the amazing gleaming purple of American beautyberries


and the ethereal color of aromatic aster, now about half open.


For more Blooming Friday posts, visit Katarina at roses and stuff.


24 comments:

  1. Your pictures are so pretty! They look great enlarged like this. I hope my Beautyberry grows up to look like yours, it's just loaded with berries. The Ruellia is very pretty, I don't think I've seen that before. You've introduced me to quite a few new flowers.

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  2. Hello. Your Ruellia and Rudbeckia are beautiful, but I think my favorite are the berries. What a vibrant color.

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  3. Sweet Bay!
    The Beutyberries!!!...I have no more words...
    Have a great weekend!`
    AnnA

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  4. American beautiberries, that really was something! As all your pictures, so lovely! Have a nice week end!

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  5. Nice. Just plain nice. :-) Have a great weekend.

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  6. Amazing blooms! I've fallen for the marsh Sunflower and the Beautyberries!! The size of your photos....wow!!

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  7. Everything still looks beautiful. I love Beautyberry. Do the berries get any bigger when it's more mature? Mine are soooooooooo tiny they can hardly be seen. The color blows me away!

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  8. Once again your colors have spoken to my heart. I just love that beautyberry. All your blooms are always a joy to behold.

    FlowerLady

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  9. What a wonderful post! You have captured such gentle beauty in your flwoer photos! I love those berries..wow! Stunning! Such a vibrant color !I enjoyed your post!Great job!

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  10. Ever since I started blogging this year, I have been seeing these beauty berries and loving the vibrant purple of them. And they aren't edible? Drats.
    Your blooms are divine, darling.
    Rosey

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  11. Two of my favorite colors! Isn't callicarpa a fabulous fall shrub!...It more then makes up for it's Plain Jane look all year with those berries! Have a good weekend. gail

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  12. Lovely photos. Don't know why I've never gotten a beauty berry, they are so lovely.

    The golden rods here are done and most of the asters too.
    Marnie

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  13. Beautiful complementary colors Sweet bay! I love all your Swamp Sunflowers and your Bidens... nice to have so much gold! Ruellia is lovey as is the Aromatic Aster with its visitor. You did it!! Large photos ... looks great ... no if only I could figure it out. Have a great holiday. Carol

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  14. Your American Beautyberries are fascinating, really ;:O)
    Never seen them before.
    The colour, yes... glories!
    Bjorg Nina

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  15. Lovely pictures - those purple berries look totally unreal!

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  16. You always have such beautiful plants. Those purple berries are impressive. I've never seen any that grow on the main stem like that.

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  17. I have never seen American Beautyberries before - how gorgeous!!

    Have I mentioned lately that I love your garden :)

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  18. Thank you for visiting my site and for your lovely comment!:-) I have visiting your blog as well and you have a lot of great pictures. Wonderful flowers in great colors. I am specially found of the American Beautyberries. I have never before seen such a speciell "arrangement" of berries.They are fantastic and beautiful!:-) I hope to find these plants in some gardenshop where i live. I would like to have them in my own garden.
    I wish you a great weekend!/Karin

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  19. You live in a big garden. I like the Americans Beautyberris, a lovely color. You have many flowers left. /Margareta

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  20. Thank you for your comments everyone!

    Raingardener, the berries of American Beautyberry are pretty good size -- not as big as a holly berries but bigger than those of the Asian beautyberries. Did you get much rain late summer/ early fall?

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  21. Your purples and yellows are quite lovely. That's the best photo of beauty berry I've seen!

    I noticed your sidebar was at the bottom, then read your other post again, and saw you added the note about it. I really like the size of the photos.

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  22. I love the American Beautyberries, so lovely colour.. Have a nice week.. Moa

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  23. The last picture is my favourite! Thank you for your comment at my blog!

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  24. Love the Ruellia! Our butterfly bushes have stopped blooming here, but the beauty berries are not quite ready yet. (I LOVE that shrub, incidentally, gorgeous color fruit!)

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