Garden Blogger Bloom's Day -October 2015

As we are cutting the garden down and pulling all the annuals I am determined to share with you the last blooms, berries, beautiful grasses and foliage of our garden. All pictures were taken on and around October 15 and my post is late..but better late than not at all.

favorite Dahlia saved and stored for two seasons..no name as it came in a mixed package

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - October 2014

Welcome to the October 2014 Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. It has been a year now since I started this blog and I am very happy with the outcome. I met lots of great people, gardeners and bloggers and I learned so much from them.
Here is what is blooming in our garden. Lets start with perennials:

Anemone tomentosa "Robustissima" 

The most floriferous Japanese anemone in my garden is this "Party Dress" variety. Very floppy and I give-up on finding how to stake it properly.

Low views of the Gardens

Welcome to a long long tour of our 2013 gardens located in Hudson, Ohio hardiness zone 5b.

I gave you a glimpse of the our gardens in the High views of the gardens post a while back. I will now give you the Low views of our gardens. Pay attention to the names of all the garden beds! There will be a test at the end of this post. And please appreciate the "creativity" (or lack of) in naming all our beds !
Spring

Entering the back yard gardens from the garage -  picture taken 2013

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - November 2013

Japanese garden with Acer palmatum var. dissectum 'Inaba shidare' - red foliage, evergreens ,Yucca  and Acer palmatum var. dissectum "Viridis"-  orange foliage

The fall colors had been amazing this year in Northeast Ohio, USDA Plant Hardiness zone 5b.  The temperatures had dropped bellow 32F a couple of times this month and we even had a day of snow. 
We are fighting lots of leaves that had fallen as in previous years. There were still some blooms left in November garden to my surprise. Most pictures that follow were taken between November 4 and November 11.

Foxglove or Digitalis Camelot Mix

Coneflower or Echinacea purpurea "Pow Wow Wild Berry"

Joe Pye Weed - Eupatorium purpureum

Sedum Autumn Fire

Thickseed or Coreopsis "Mercury Rising"

Rosa Knockout® "Sunny" 

Rosa Knockout® "RADrazz"

Chrysanthemum or Dendranthema "Harmony"

Tricyrtis Formosana

Hydrangea  "For Ever and Ever"

Japanese Candelabra Primroses or Primula Japonica

Geranium phaeum "Samobor" has a gorgeous foliage all summer after the bloom 

St. John's Wort Magical Sunshine or Hypericum inodorum

Folliage plants that look great all year - from left to right

Dead Nettle (Lamium maculatum "Purple Dragon"), Ajuga, Sedum "Angelina", Moss Sedum, 

Dead Nettle and Epimedium grandiflorum Lilafee

Red leaf Japanese Maple or Acer palmatum var. dissectum 'Inaba shidare'

Before and After November foliage change of  color

Green leaf Japanese Maple or Acer palmatum var. dissectum "Viridis"

Before and After November foliage change of color

Vegetable garden  view - ready to rest

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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day is hosted on the 15th of each month by Carol at  May Dream Gardens. Visit her blog to see what is in bloom this month in gardens from many climates and countries.

Wordless Wednesday 11/6/2013

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - October 2013

 Welcome to our USDA hardiness Zone 5b garden here in Ohio, USA. As you can see, there are lots of flowers blooming in the garden:

Dinner plate Dahlia "Islander"

      This perennial Blue Hardy Ageratum has been on my mind for 10 years. I looked for it everywhere in nurseries because I saw it in a garden blooming late October and I said to myself: I have to have it! I was so excited that a nursery saleswomen brought it to me from her own garden...but it died the first winter in my garden. This past spring I found seeds online and I started it indoors. Every single seedling made it to a mature plant that bloomed and bloomed with beautiful light blue clusters! The one problem I see with this plant is that the slugs love its foliage and this year we had lots and lots of slugs.
   2015 up-date on Blue Hardy Ageratum:  Since this is a very popular post and people keep comming back to it and read it, I need to inform you that this plant was very invasive and this spring I had to pull it out of my  moist humus raised day lilies bed.  In only two seasons it quadrupled in spread and invaded even the roots and clumps of nearby plants.  It is a very SCARY INVASIVE pretty blue end of summer plant if given good soil! I will give it a last chance in a dry more shady bed by the Shed. Don't say that I didn't worn you!
2016 up-date on Blue Hardy Ageratum: Even though I pulled this plant at the end of the 2015 season in the spring the bed was filled with it again and it was a marvel in bloom. I will again try to get rid of it but if some returns from forgotten roots it will make for a nice October display.

Hardy Ageratum (Eupatorium coelestinum)

Spider flower (Cleome) - reseeds itself every year

Chrysantemum "Harmony" (Dendranthema)

Rosa "Sunny Knock Out®" - such easy to grow and a very long repeat bloomer

Two varieties of Dead Nettle that thrive in this garden : Lamium maculatum "Purple Dragon" and "Aureum"

Sedum "Angelina" front with Sedum sieboldii (in bloom) tucked under Corydalis Lutea  - another great bloomer in this part shade garden

Knotweed or Persicaria virginiana "Painter's Pallette" with the very "dangerous" but pretty red seeds

Bloomerang Purple Reblooming Lilac

Red Zonal Geranium (annual in a pot)

Toad lily or Tricyrtis Hirta "Myiazaki" - Isn't this a beauty?

Hydrangea Forever & Ever® 

This Japanese Candelabra Primrose is a little confused! It thinks that is May!

Japanese Anemone or Anemone hybrida "Party Dress"

Japanese Anemone or Anemone tomentosa "Robustissima"

Pink Spider Flower or Cleome

Aster novi-belgii "Bonningdale White"

Masterworth or Astrantia reblooming in the fall

Achillea "Paprika"

Coreopsis

Nasturtium "Alaska mix"

Verbena  - blooming Summer to Fall

There are interesting foliage plants alive and vibrant in the garden:

Trailing Coleus

Siberian Bugloss or Brunnera "Jack Frost"

Solomon's Seal or Polygonatum striatum

First year for Hardy cyclamen - unfortunately no flowers this year

Autumn Fern or Dryopteris Brilliance with Japanese Primroses foliage

Two sedums in love! Angelina with Blue Carpet (Sedum hispanicum minus "Purple Form")

Ajuga Reptans "Burgundy Glow"

The foliage of Epimedium grandiflorum Lilafee turns color to shades of brown and red in late fall

Coleus "Mississippi Summer"

Virginia creeper

Yucca with Acer palmatum var. dissectum "Inaba shidare" and a dwarf topiary juniper

There are the berries, cool seeds and exotic fruits in the garden:

Beautyberry shrub or Callicarpa Dichotoma

Hemlock

Burning Bush with berries or Euonymus alatus

Meyer Lemon tree in pot

There are the fall views to take in:

And there is Halloween around the corner:

Check out other October gardens at Carol’s main Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day post at May Dreams Gardens. Thanks so much for visiting today!