Gardens-In-The-Sand

Autumn grasses n stuff

splitbeard bluestem

closeup

bluestem can have amazing colours (not just blue) I'm marking these magenta ones for future division.

More bluestem seed heads

Delea seedheads

Farkle berry bush

popcorn tree colour

rutabaga patch

Sunflowerz n stuff

Hummingbird visiting tithonia...

I hadn't been seeing these guys... was happy to spot this one yesterday.

helianthus angustifolius

Be sure to enlarge pic to see the depth of this planting! Will post additional pics as the blooms continue to open...

Planted this patch of sunflowers from seed (well... sunflower tops scattered across the top of the soil) last Autumn.

Fence post lizard...

Checkerspot sex

Really liking these bluestem flowers...

Nother bluestem flower.

These eupatorium flowers don't look like much, and most people pull them for weeds.... but they certainly attract the pollinators, and one more thing... They're scented!

Was tryinna get a decent pic of the wasps recently, and noticed an unexpected fragrance in the air... nothing to account for it... xcept for the eupatorium!

I'd totally bottle the scent... if I could do so without harming the flowerz...

Even the dawg fennel is scented... not as nice as the eupatorium serotinum... but scented all the same.

Thai basil

ageratina altissima
Not quite fully opened...

Tassel flower (Emilia fosbergii)
Not especially an autumn flower... has bloomed most of the summer.

tibouchina semidecandra
Marginally hardy here, but easy to propagate...

I brought out some stems last winter when I cut it back in another garden in Macon... Shoved the stems into the soil... and walked away. Pretty much the same way that I propagate the brugmansias...

hemiboea subcapitata

I used to grow gloxinia in my previous personal garden, but they aren't winter hardy here in middle GA, and required replacing each year...
these hemiboea need protection from deer, but are otherwise perfectly suited to the climate.

gesneriads are some interesting plants, as seen here

Finally, how about a bit of autumn leaf colour?

popcorn tree (Sapium sebiferum)

Labels: algeratina, basil, butterfly, emilia, eupatorium, grass, hemiboea.sapium, hummingbird, lizard, sunflower, tibouchina

bombogenesis

Glad I've been to have escaped the snow and extreme freezing conditions.... and yet.... the low 20s and high teens that we've been experiencing as lows have been rough enough...

Some beauty in the garden as a result of the cold, though...

Frost flowers!

Winter seedpods are always attractive.... Round-headed Bush Clover (Lespedeza capitata) above and bluestem below.

Camellia before the deepfreeze... they're brown now...

Loquat tree... flower before the freeze... also brown now...

Cyclamon and hellebore, neither are bothered by the cold...

Mustard greens after the deep freeze... doesn't look real appetizing now...

Greens before the freeze.... Also.... pickup full of horse poop.

Poop.... each hump represents a truckload brought in.... I'm finding that dumping it out in piles allows it to loosen the sand, and importantly to kill the japanese honeysuckle and muscadine grape vines... those vines can be problematic when working on a new section of vegetable garden.

here's a section of the vegetable garden... maybe a quarter of the whole....

another picture of frostflower... richardia.

Fuse box full of wasps....

seeing a lot of songbird activity with the new rising temps....

Autumn wildflowers reprise

Another post of wildflowers from the middle Georgia sandhills... I sometimes read about how flowers are a rare commodity in the Autumn, and I've always had a lot of flowers in my Autumn gardens.