Comments on: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – October 2008

By: Cool Garden Things

Cool Garden Things — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:06:59 +0000

Wow. You have a lovely vision. I like how you appreciate the beauty of the dying foliage later in the season. What is that plant with the large yellow fruit next to some English Aster? GartenGrl at Planning Plants to Plant Thanks for visiting! The plants in question are Poncirus trifoliata 'Flying Dragon' (contorted hardy orange) with Aster oblongifolius (aromatic aster). -Nan

By: ourfriendben

ourfriendben — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:34:50 +0000

Ye gods, Nan, what a glorious sight! Between the front and side borders, the ‘Kumson’ forsythia,and the ‘Caspian’ pennisetum and muhlenbergia, I’m speechless. Wow. And, of course, who wouldn’t love ‘Heavy Metal’ and ‘Flying Dragon’?! October is the finest month.

I have to agree with you about October being a glorious gardening month. I’m sure not going to have much to share for November’s Bloom Day.
-Nan

By: kerri

kerri — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:34:24 +0000

Nan, your gardens are inspiring, and a real credit to you. What an artist you are when it comes to design! The fall grass colors and seed heads make the perfect fallscape and are pretty as a picture.
That salvia leucantha is really beautiful. Is it hardy?
Did you get a lot of snow? It was a doozy of a storm for this early in the season, wasn’t it?

Thanks, Kerri! No, sadly, the Salvia leucantha isn’t hardy here. We didn’t get too much snow, fortunately – just about a half-inch, plus 4 inches of rain. We really needed the rain, but the snow I could have done without.
-Nan