September 2014 Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day

How can September be half over already?  It's hard to believe that fall begins in only a week.  Time flies when you're having fun (or old like me.)  On the fifteenth of each month, Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts GBBD to help us remember that we can have flowers every month of the year.  Click over to her blog to see what's blooming right now in bloggers' gardens around the world.  Here's some of what's blooming in my garden right now.

Fuchsias are a favorite plant because they bloom for so long and add some nice saturated color at this less floriferous time of year.

Abutilons - Ditto!

Abutilon megapotamicum

Pelargonium that  wintered over in the little glass room because of it's interesting flower shape and color.

Pelargonium 'Crystal Palace Gem' 

Begonias

Early this spring, shopping at Fred Meyer, The begonia tubers seduced me from across the store.  They have a way of doing that.  Anyway, the tubers were in bulk boxes and customers could choose the ones they wanted, place them in a bag along with a handy printed tag to label each variety.  There was a bag of three tubers that another shopper had put together with the label for the red hanging begonia in this picture.  A change of mind had them leave the bag of three inside the red bin.  Thinking it would be lovely to have a hanging basket of red begonias, I grabbed the rejected bag.  Much to my surprise, the resulting basket has two different kinds of begonias, none of which seems to want to hang.  Thus, I have a ugly plastic hanging pot with clashing begonias growing straight up instead of playfully cascading down to cover the ugly pot.  Fun.

Solanum quitoense

Impatiens glandulifera

Lysimachia monelli née  Anagallis monellii AKA Blue Pimpernel

 Echeveria 'topsy turvy' 

 "Assorted succulents"

Still a few gardenias.

Hydrangea 'Pistachio' 

NOID hydrangea I picked up in the floral section of  the grocery store a few years ago because I liked it.  Past their prime, hydrangeas will still look interesting until winter.

Clerodendrum trichotomum has this year produced more flowers than ever before, is still blooming, and is producing lots of ornamental berries!

A few last alstromerias

 Salpiglossis

 Clematis 'Nelly Moser'

Anemone hupehensis

Dahlia

 Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Golden Arrow'

 Geranium 'Ann Folkard' has a fun habit of climbing all over everything. 

Sedum 'Autumn Joy'

There's almost always a rose

or two in bloom.

Colchicum 

Lonicera periclymenum 'INOV71' or 'Caprilia Cream' or 'Sweet Tea'  is all the same plant and it's delightfully fragrant.

What's blooming in your garden this month?