Friday, October 15, 2010

Blooming Friday ~ Wild and Beautiful


American Beautyberry grows wild here, and can be very wild in form, but the bright purple berries are beautiful. The lacy white flowers are that of Dog Fennel, which will be at its most beautiful in about a month.



Swamp Sunflower (Helianthus angustifolius)



Happy Friday, and thanks to Katarina at roses and stuff for hosting Blooming Friday!


19 comments:

  1. Lovely wild and beautiful blooms Sweetbay. Have a great weekend. ;>)

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  2. Those Beautyberry Bushes are spectacular! Love those swamp sunflowers! There are a good many of those around here. Have a great weekend!

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  3. I love the natives that grow in your garden SB...Swamp Sunflower is one of my favs, but, American beautyberry is happiest here. I've been tempted to try dog fennel~Do you think it would grow here? I like the blooms~gail

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  4. I am really enjoying your beautiful images!
    Happy weekend to you!

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  5. Love that bright yellow this time of year. It really is like sunshine.

    Have a great weekend! :)

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  6. Beauty berry grows wild for you?? How lucky can ya be. I have to coddle mine a bit. Happy Bloom Day!

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  7. I can see how beautyberry would grow wild for you-it self seeds all over my garden. Good thing friends always want it and those berries are lovely. Even though my plant wilts the berries sparkle. Can't figure out how plants adapt like that. The swamp sunflower is gorgeous. I haven't seen much of it around here this year, I'm thinking it is not happy due to our terrible drought. As always your garden looks wunderbar!

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  8. Title says it all.

    Have a great weekend.

    cheers

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  9. Sweetbay,

    Got to love the Swamp Sunflower! Ours is flattened and in a 16 foot circle right now.

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  10. Who doesn't love the Beautyberry? I even like the Dog Fennel, especially to pick and crush the foliage for its fragrance.

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  11. A treasure trove right in your neck of the woods. How special!

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  12. Beauty berry? They are really beautidul, like a jewel. and your photoes of swamp sunflowers, lovely :)

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  13. Ah, judging by the leaves, my beautyberry can't be americana but japonica. Darn! It does not grow wild here. (I dug mine out of a friend's house who was moving.)

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  14. I didn't know that the Beautyberries were natives - they're such beauties!

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  15. How lucky you are to have beautyberry growing wild! I have been trying to find a place here where I can put a beautyberry shrub--I love those purple berries--but, of course, I will have to spend money for one:)

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  16. How very wild and beautiful, lovely blooms and berries, they are poisonious aren't they?

    Tyra

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  17. Lovely colours, lovely pictures. Have a nice day/Gela

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  18. I saw purple Beautyberry at Edwards Gardens, a civic garden center here in Toronto, for the first time this past September. It really is unusual and striking in color.

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  19. It's good to see your beautiful garden again.
    Those swamp sunflowers are so cheerful and lucky you, having the beautyberry grow wild. It's gorgeous!
    I loved your huge swath of Bidens, and all those butterflies. How wonderful to have so many!
    I'm glad you've finally had rain and that the well wasn't low. We had well trouble this summer too. Had to replace the pump (expensive!). It's a horrible feeling when the water suddenly stops! But wonderful when it starts again :)
    Your horses are characters :) Love the fun photos of them.

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