Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day September 2016

On the fifteenth of each month, Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts an international floral fiesta known as Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day.  Click here to see what's blooming in the gardens of bloggers all over the world.   Here's some of what's adding color to my garden this month.

Impatiens continue blooming as if autumn will never come.  

Tuberous begonias also have a long bloom time which makes me value these sparkling gems of color in my mostly-foliage garden.

Hardy Fuchsias keep the humming birds happy.

As do abutilons.  A. megapotamicum 'Red'

Abutilon 'Victor Reiter'

That crazy NOID pelargonium that blooms through the winter in the greenhouse.  I discovered some unknown begonia seedlings in the pot and am excited to see how they turn out.

I got a couple of trailing pelargonium  on sale in August and plunked them into a hanging basket in the greenhouse.  They've filled in nicely.

Brugmansia beginning another flush of bloom, most likely it's last before it migrates inside for the winter. 

Japanese anemones 

Clerodendrum bungei buds.  Those currently open are a bit too high for my camera to capture. 

Cyclamen hederifolium

Hydraangeas 

Tropaeolum speciosum

  Ceratostigma plumbaginoides

Colchicum

Clerodendrum trichotomum

Persicaria golden arrow

 Hibiscus

Pseudolithos migiurtinus just about open.

Happy GBBD everyone.  Looking forward to seeing what's in bloom in your garden this month!

Wednesday Vignette

Wednesday Vignette is hosted by blogging pal Anna at Flutter and Hum.  Click over to Anna's blog to see her glassy-eyed idea!

For your convenience, a receptacle will be placed in the Outlaw Garden into which you may deposit all of your unsightly and unwanted glass pieces.  Just trying to do my part to save the planet and all.

Lisa's Cacti And Succulent Collection

You may remember that in July, members of the Cascade Cactus and Succulent Society came to visit my garden. (Post here.)  The day began at the home of Lisa Alba, one of the members.  Her collection of plants is almost as great as her artistic talent.  Lisa made a majority of the pots in which her plants are growing and has a knack for pairing pots and plants to delightful effect.  I'll be mostly quiet and let you enjoy the plants.

Some of the collection is having a summer vacation outside.

 This amazing creature was being donated to the society  as it wasn't going to move with it's previous owner.  The society holds an annual odd plant show and sale  which Alison and I attended just last weekend.

Some of the collection lives indoors year round.

Isn't this a cool piece? 

Lisa's home is filled with interesting, wonderful, unusual objects.  I'd met a kindred spirit!  The delightful thing is that on this day, I'd met a whole bunch of kindred (a bit obsessed) plant people and am looking forward to joining the society!

What a joyful experience!

On Thursday Next week, we'll tour the garden of a couple of other members who invited me visit with them later and also do join Alison and me as we find new treasures at the odd plant show and sale! (Forgot about GBBD and FFU this week!)

In A Vase On Monday

In a Vase on Monday is hosted by Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.  Click over to her site to see what creative floral flourish she's created to share this week.

Sunday was my birthday and my coworkers celebrated with me on Friday and it's been a whirlwind of a weekend.  At work roses from the Tom and a happy yellow floral arrangement from my eldest sister arrived.  I'd already decided to cheat and use these as my IAVOM offerings.  On Sunday, the church choir began again for the academic year and after the service, I was given the colorful flowers which had decorated the altar.  These usually are taken to an elderly or ill member of the congregation.  Do you suppose I got the flowers because I now qualify for the senior citizen discount at some establishments?

With such an embarrassment of floral riches, I couldn't imagine cutting anything more so once again, I'm cheating.   However, I did play with the arrangements a bit.  First up, the roses.  Flowers had never graced this vase in the many years I've had it.  Fortunately, the vase in which the roses came fit nicely inside..

The roses came with the simple message, "Go, Lovely Rose."  (If you don't know the poem, look here.)  The photograph is nearly thirty years old as you may be able to tell from my permed mullet. Time flies!

The colorful flowers from church worked well with  this glass vase made by Dehanna Jones of Totally Blown Glassworks.

It seemed fitting to use my mother's bible and her reading glasses with these.  Although she seldom darkened the door of a church, her quiet faith was an inspiration.

Finally, the happy yellow arrangement from my eldest sister that ended up in the bathroom where I'll see it first thing every morning. 

Of course it needed some fun props.

Keep calm and poop on air freshener, Filthy Whore Soap "Just because you're dead on the inside doesn't mean you have to smell like it on the outside,"  and  Wash Your Sins Away hand cleanser."For Liars, Cheaters & Wrong-Doers.  Reduces Guilt by 98.9%."  Everyone has these things lying around their bathrooms, right?

You may have noticed the new header.  It's one of two cross stitch Outlaw Gardener creations made by the brother of Kim, one of my coworkers.  Wasn't that thoughtful of her?  The image doesn't do the piece justice as it's really much  more lovely in person. Happy new week all!