Sunday, October 16, 2011

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day


We are enjoying beautiful weather here this weekend, the beginning of fall color, the fireworks of Purple Muhly Grass, asters and sunflowers, and a sprinkling of nearly perfect late season roses. Later today we're off to the State Fair to see the garden exhibits and farm animals and eat carnival food.

A young Blackgum


Purple Muhly Grass with Mexican petunia and four o'clocks


Aromatic aster


Swamp sunflower (Helianthus angustifolius)




along with Azalea 'Autumn Amethyst' and Northern River Oats, with another young Blackgum in the background.


The petals of Clotilde Soupert are sheer like some beautiful cotton fabric.



I wish you could breathe in the fragrance ~ it's divine!


Just as the planet Venus is gaining ascendency in the fall, a brilliant jewel set low in the sky, the mum that shares her name also becomes a star in the October garden.



Thanks Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day.


Posted by sweetbay at 10:21 AM

22 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 16, 2011 at 11:03 AM

    I love the swamp sunflowers in your garden. This is a great time of year in this zone, to be sure!

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  2. AnonymousOctober 16, 2011 at 11:06 AM

    What beautiful flowers... and I love that grass.

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  3. AquilejansOctober 16, 2011 at 11:40 AM

    Lovely colors!
    Have a nice sunday!

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  4. sherryocalaOctober 16, 2011 at 2:04 PM

    Sweetbay, what a lovely cavalcade of blooms you have here. Love your aster!! Love everything really! Your Clotilde Soupert is showing her cool-weather pink. Mine isn't there yet. Still white. Thanks for all of these beautiful blooming photos!

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  5. debsgardenOctober 16, 2011 at 5:15 PM

    Beautiful fall garden! Coltilde soupert is the epitome of the romantic rose! I also love the combination of the purple muhly grass with the four-o'clocks.

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  6. DorothyOctober 16, 2011 at 5:34 PM

    Your gardens are beautiful! Love those happy looking swamp sunflowers! And your roses are gorgeous!!!

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  7. LaurrieOctober 16, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    I love autumn blooms the best. Those asters make me smile!

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  8. Casa MariposaOctober 16, 2011 at 9:12 PM

    I love that purple muhly grass!! Actually, I love every picture! :o) One of my favorite things about your garden is how wild but natural it seems.

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  9. scottweberpdxOctober 16, 2011 at 10:11 PM

    Gorgeous post..love that mix of the Muhly Grass with Four O'Clocks...that grass always amazed me when it blooms...love how it goes from totally nondescript to a thing of sheer beauty :-)

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  10. RoseOctober 16, 2011 at 10:33 PM

    So many lovely blooms! It's certainly been a beautiful autumn this year. Happy Bloom Day, Sweetbay!

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  11. CarolOctober 17, 2011 at 10:02 AM

    Dear Sweetbay, How lovely your world looks today and with the cooler weather what a delight it must be to be out in the garden and riding Prince. I have the same sweet mum as in your last photo but most of my blooms are over with exception to a few blooms of roses, goldenrod and rudbeckias.

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  12. Northern Beauty SeekerOctober 17, 2011 at 10:58 AM

    I love them all! But I have to say, the Clotilde Soupert is a sweetheart of a rose. I am such a sucker for pale and pretty roses.

    Here, azaleas bloom in the early spring. So neat to see them now in your garden. Lovely! :)

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  13. JanetOctober 17, 2011 at 2:41 PM

    Another gorgeous garden in October. The sunflowers are such a sunny burst of colour and so beautifully photographed. Lovely post.

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  14. Janet, The Queen of SeafordOctober 17, 2011 at 5:53 PM

    Your rose is just dreamy. That delicate pink is so sweet.
    I have what I believe to be some kind of Helianthus in the woods along side our yard. It is so short...only about 12- 18 inches tall. I am still trying to make a good ID.
    Autumn Amethyst is gorgeous!!!

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  15. DarlaOctober 18, 2011 at 7:28 AM

    So pretty! Love the Aster.

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  16. QOctober 18, 2011 at 6:30 PM

    You have found the perfect balance of native and cultivated....
    The last couple of photographs of the Mum Venus are gorgeous...
    frost warnings for my gardens. I picked the last of the tomatoes.
    Sherry

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  17. Patrick's GardenOctober 18, 2011 at 11:16 PM

    All looks good as usual. I just did my first GBBD ever.

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  18. GailOctober 19, 2011 at 7:17 AM

    Sweetbay, This is a scrumptious post! Love 'Venus' and 'Clotild' ...gail

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  19. Monica the Garden FaerieOctober 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM

    You still have so much color!! We're deffo heading for winter fast here. :) I love that Muhly grass!

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  20. AndreaOctober 19, 2011 at 9:19 PM

    Such beautiful profuse flowers in your vicinity, even the undercanopies are full of them. The prior posts are also very vividly colored and there's a lot of them. Wow! and the photos great. thanks.

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  21. Rob (ourfrenchgarden)October 20, 2011 at 8:03 AM

    Ah that pink tinged muhly.

    I planted some muhlenbergia rigens late summer. Doesn't have the pink colour but nice all the same and will never need watering.

    Helianthus is the truest yellow!

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  22. LesOctober 22, 2011 at 9:39 PM

    I long for a garden big enough that I could let Helianthus run anywhere it wanted to, but space is tight here, and I am afraid it would take over.

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