Fall Color
Posted: September 22, 2017 Filed under: Gardening | Tags: Automatic Gardening, Black and Blue Salvia, butterfly weed, Evening Primrose, Gardening, Gulf Coast gardening, hibiscus, Oenothera grandiflora, Pink Flamingo Feather Celosia, salvias, shampoo ginger, Southern Gardening, Subtropical Gardening, wild ageratum, Year-round gardening, Yellow Bells 15 Comments
Happy Fall! Many are posting photos of colorful leaves.
The leaves here will not change for a long time.
Instead, our Fall color comes from blooming plants that have woke up from their summer “sleep”, when it was just too hot to make a flower.
We don’t have flaming foliage, so these flaming tropicals will have to do.
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What lovely flowers! I’m so eager to get out and about and see what’s happening on the refuges and prairies. They’re finally opening up, and it looks like Sunday will be my day. I’m especially fond of blue mistflower, so I’m glad to be reminded of it here.
Ah, the joys of living in a warm climate. NIce photos, A.G.
Oh thank you for this beautiful post!!
It always impresses me how we have some of the same flowers up here, but most are very different!
Being a Northerner, I found it difficult to learn to garden here. It is even different from the Southeast.
What a lovely hibiscus – like a dance gown!
Love the selection! What is the blue flower – a Salvia? My joke for fall color here is there are 3 Red Maples on the edge of the swamp up the street if you want fall color that is it. What do you have there? Red and Jap Maples?
The Salvias are Black and Blue and I don’t know the name of the other one. That one is not happy with all the rain and not blooming as much as usual. Red Maples are not very happy here. I have one and it is not doing well. Our color (if it happens) comes from China Tallow and Sweetgum trees. This will be an interesting Fall with all our rain this year.
Hmm, are you on Gumbo soil? I do know that Salvia, just forgot about it. Sweetgums are great for fall color. I never could detect a reason for good fall color!
Yes, we have Gumbo. There is so much clay my kids dug it up and made pots.
Eww, my husband lived in Dallas for several years and told me all about it. You are a dedicated gardener! My former garden with Red Georgia clay has nothing on you.
Lovely images of your gorgeous tropical flowers.
Thank you. The poor little thing has been there for years and just started to bloom last year. It hasn’t even reproduced.
Wonderful colours of beautiful flowers!
Thank you!