What's blooming now?

[MissMoustache]

Originally Posted by GoDawgs

I have some pass-along plants from a friend. She didn't know what they were because the person she got them from didn't know. They're just starting to bloom.





I'm guessing they're some kind of aster, perhaps because of the time of year they're blooming. I've not grown asters before. This patch started as a very small clump in fall '16 that my sister grew off in a 3 gallon pot for a year. They then filled that pot so this spring she divided and planted them out.

If they're asters, should I have cut them back sometime during the summer to keep them from getting so leggy and gangly? Or is that the nature of the beast?

Looks like asters to me.

I cut back my asters about midsummers day (mid June) Same time as hardy mums for a more compact mounded look. Blooms will be later though.

[Rajun Gardener]

I have a Ginger plant starting to bloom.

[GrowingCoastal]

Originally Posted by Rajun Gardener

I have a Ginger plant starting to bloom.

Lovely!
I once planted some ginger root in a pot in a greenhouse where I was working. It bloomed a pale yellow and had a fabulous scent.

[MissMoustache]

SpookyShoe your flowers are absolutely stunning!

[SpookyShoe]

I hope we can keep this thread going over the winter. I think a couple of people have greenhouses. Or sunny windows? Happy growing over the next several months!

Donna, zone 9, Texas Gulf Coast

[SpookyShoe]

Thank you, Moustache. I so enjoy seeing the variety of blooms that others have. People who plant something have hope in what the future will bring.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast

[greenthumbomaha]

Very pretty ginger plant. I have to grow it indoors in my climate. It grows really tall, maybe it doesn't get enough light and stretches. I ALWAYS manage to knock it over. Was yours, Rajun, started from the grocery or did you order a fancy one online? How long do the blooms last?


- Lisa

[GrowingCoastal]

Pineapple sage is another hummingbird favorite that is a late bloomer. I grow it against a South facing wall because it's not hardy here. That gives me the latest blooms possible.

Here too. I've had it go on blooming in pots in a protected spot until the end of December in mild years. Then I bring it into the garage to wait for spring when I can divide it or take cuttings. There are more showy plants but none so long standing as this plain salvia.
The cuphea Vermillionaire is another one that goes on til the end and ends up in the garage, dormant til spring. I have kept one growing under a light out there and it was a large plant 1st thing the next year but now I need the space for........Tomato plants!

[SpookyShoe]

Hot Pink Shrimp Plant, a Torenia from a summer plant that reseeded, and a young Crown of Thorns.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast

[SpookyShoe]

A perennial hibiscus that is my neighbor's plant, but is growing over our fence. He has three plants and they are huge and covered with buds. Next are canna, and lastly ruellia (wild petunias), which reseeds and grows like weeds everywhere.

This morning I repotted three grocery store miniature roses, each of which had four individual plants in their tiny pots. I separated the individual plants and repotted to larger containers. Now I hope for the best....they weren't looking too good.

Donna, Texas Gulf Coast

[Worth1]

This small agave decided to put up a shoot.
It better hurry.
Yucca in the background.
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[SpookyShoe]

This potted hibiscus is still putting on blooms. It was on the front porch but I moved it because there wasn't room for the Halloween decorations.

Donna

[nancyruhl]

While cleaning out my gardens for winter here in northern Michigan today, November 3, I found all these flowers to make me smile. Trycytis, Flowering Kale, and Nearly Wild Rose

[nancyruhl]

And there were more. The first is geranium sanquinium, my all time favorite perennial. Also butterfly bush with rudbeckia "Little Susie" in the background.

[SpookyShoe]

Love the Tricyrtis. I must look into that one for myself.

Donna