Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day October 2016

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day is hosted on the fifteenth of each month by Carol at May Dreams Gardens.  To see what's blooming in gardens all over the world on this day, click here.

Can you believe that it's already the middle of October?  Fall has definitely arrived in my garden with some fresh blooms but most of what's blooming now has been blooming most of the summer.

Here are some of the fall bloomers:

Japanese Anemone 'Lucky Charm'  

Asters

Impatiens omeiana 'Silver Pink'

Cyclamen hederifolium

Mahonia 'Soft Caress'

Miscanthus sinensis 'Zebrinus'

 Zauschneria californica

Winter pansies.

The first blooms of Viburnum x bodnantense 'dawn' perfuming the air.  This workhorse of a shrub will flower until late spring. 

Next are things that have been blooming for months now:

New Guinea Impatiens

Some of the many hardy fuchsias. 

F. 'Black Cherry'

 'Delta's Groom'

'Blackie'

 'San Leandro' 

'John Maynard Scales'

Tuberous begonias bloom over a long period of time, are easy to grow and can either be thought of as annuals or the tubers can be thrown, pot and all into a dark dry place for the winter and they'll start sending up new growth in about February or March.  

A shocking pink bloom on Pelargonium (geranium)  

'Fragrant Cloud' rose will represent many that have put on a new flush of bloom.

Geranium 'Rozanne'

A surprise encore from the variegated Ceanothus in the hell strip.

Agastache

Abutilon somethingorother

Abutilon 'Red Tiger'

Dichroa febrifuga

Out in the greenhouse, the big brugmansia is welcoming all his summer-vacationing friends back inside for the cold months.

Happy GBBD all!