I don't know that I will see those digiplexis again around here this next year and we don't have all of the wonderful nurseries that I'm used, where everything is available year 'round. I couldn't believe how lucky I was with those, saw them online, wanted them, went to the grocery store in Brookings and they had a whole bunch....like a gift...lol..I'm glad that I bought two, why didn't I get more? Certainly will if I see them again, they are just incredible plants.

Sunny here also, will be for several more days after our rain yesterday.

There's a lot flowering around here in this area, but it's going to take awhile for me to build up my 'stock' again...lol..workin' on it....

I might have to see if I can find digiplexis this next spring. That sure looks like a wonderful plant.

It's amazing....

My garden is looking happy now - loving the recent showers & lots of blooms. Of course, I'm worrying that they'll be done in four months, when we put the house on the market, so I'm deadheading things that I normally wouldn't - tagetes, toubichina, euryops, blue margarites...

Oh my, the digiplexus is stunning & deer resistant - a must have!
Sue, your bouquets are beautiful! I didn't know you could watch a blog - learned something new...

Digiplexis.... stunning, deer resistant, tough, drought tolerant, has been in bloom since the day I bought it...months ago. I believe it's gopher resistant also...

I went out and took photos of the things that are still blooming today. More than I thought.
Abutilon 'Lucky Lantern Tangerine'. The wind was blowing so I picked the bloom and set in into the Sedum hispanicum 'Aureum'.


Agastache rupestris


Delosperma cooperii. This will bloom until we have a killing frost.


Cyclamen hederifolium. This blooms in the spring and again in fall for me.


Cyclamen hederifolium 'Alba'.This one also blooms spring and fall. Both have a very long bloom time in both seasons.


Eriogonum caespitosum. This has been blooming all summer, and it still shows buds for more blooms.


Erodium 'Natasha' blooms from late spring until killing frost. Love this plant, and so drought tolerant.


Gentiana dinarica 'Montenegro' also seems to have two seasons of bloom. It will bloom again in the spring.


Geum 'Cooky'


Hardy rose scented geranium. I didn't know this one would rebloom.


Sempervivum heuffelii


Sempervivum barbulatum 'Hookerii'


Both of these armeria are just starting to set many bloom buds down in the foliage since we have been getting all this rain. These plants are very drought tolerant, but will bloom better if they get water during drought season.
Armeria maritima 'Rubrifolia'


Armeria maritima 'Cotton Tail'


Delosperma 'Mesa Verde'. Another delosperma that blooms from late spring/early summer, until killing frost in the fall.


Penstemon pinifolius blooms all summer until killing frost. Sorry. I had pruned it back about 2 weeks ago when I was redoing this bed it is in. Otherwise it would still be in full bloom.


Penstemon 'Pikes Peak Purple' also blooms all summer until killing frost. I did cut this one back, so it is full of blooms and buds still coming on.


I have no idea what the name is of the miniature rose. I've had it for two years now. It seems to have a short bloom season in early summer, but this year it is doing a repeat bloom in the fall.


Tricyrtis 'Empress'


Verbena bonariensis has been blooming all summer.


Viola. Sadly the slugs have been eating these as fast as the blooms open. I sprinkled the child/pet safe slug bait day before yesterday. Hopefully that will put a stop to the destruction.


I know these aren't blooms, but they add so much color to the fall gardens.
Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii 'Profusion'


Pyracantha, the birds have already started to feed on the ripest berries.


Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus. We have these along the creek that goes through the back yard. They are so pretty in the spring with their lovely pink blooms, then in the fall with the eye catching white berries. It is a winter food source to many different animals and birds.

yum...lovely stuff...and yes, more than you thought....

I think it will all come to an end in about a week. They are predicting 30 degree overnight temps.

I'm having a hard time adjusting to the idea of 'frost'....I'd made up my mind that I would only grow things here that are not at all tender...I don't quite know what happened, but I've ended up with plants that may not like it and I've not yet created protected nooks and crannies and roofed over aeas.....

So, frost could hit here at any time, or not at all....last Winter here was much colder than usual, don't have any expectations at all about this Winter. Right now we're still having wonderful windows open weather and sun (alternating with rain).....and having not been really wanting to deal with the idea that I have a "Winter" here, I have young seedlings also to baby along...oh well....

Oh my, you have your work cut out for you. What kind of seedlings?

Some quite small and some at small 4"pot stage. I was given a lot of seed, most of it being around 10 years old and I didn't count on 100 % germination.....and then some of it was from my own fresh seed of the year before ...do not know why when I have seed, I can't just sow a 'few'...no, I seem to have to sow them all...lol..I will have to control this. I sowed seed from my echium gentianoides "Tajinaste', I had one plant left in SoCal, but brought seed from it with me. I don't know how it will do in the winter here, I suspect waterlogging will be a problem, so as I've been digging out lots of sod, I'd built up quite a mound of it over to the side of the property and one day looked at it and decided that might be the spot to plant some things that would want really good drainage, so I've got a bunch of the e. "Tajinaste" planted there and e. wildpretii also and will also add a couple of the dwarf echium, e. vulgaris. I sowed a lot of lobelia tupa and have small plants of that going out there. The small salvias that went into the ground...already got a few seeds from the s. rhinosa, so if it doesn't make it through winter in that spot, I can start again...the s. atrocyanea has one flower on it, the s. azurea is in bud, have collected a few seed from the agastache "Tutti Frutti" and a. "Sunset". I'm so used to being able to sow and plant year round that I'm having a hard time waiting to wintersow...I have to look around this area to see what makes it here and it's really not a large gardening community to get ideas from. I see that echium pininina will grow well here, but I've only seen one echium fastuosum and it's just coming into flower so I want to watch it and see if it gets 'frosted', I've not seen any e. wildpretii. I have one lartge e. simplex that I was hoping would flower this year and get seed from before Winter, but no luck yet. Small seedlings of linaria purpurea took off really well as soon as they went into the ground, a few small seedlings of monarda and other too small to put into the ground right now will be held over...small plants of verbascum blattaria and v. chaixii album, a few went into the ground and a few held over, etc...

Just a new environment, don't know quite what to expect...when we moved in last October, I'd brought my box trailer filled with mostly large plants and we were so drained from the whole move, that I just shoved them all under the overhang of large bushes on the edge of the property and hoped for the best.....surprisingly I see now that a year later, my "Lady of the Night" is finally re-growing and that was unexpected....my "Mexican Weeping Bamboo" in a 15 gallon pot did not make it...I love that but won't try growing it here now that I see how it fared, or rather didn't....it's actually a mild climate here, but wet and 'different'.

Quite a list of interesting plants.

A lot of the 10 year old seeds did not germinate...what was surprising was the ones that did....such as the lobelia tupa...

I know some seeds can lay dormant for years and come to life under the right conditions. It is an amazing thing.

Wilsonara Hilda Plumtree 'Purple Wings'

Beautiful tarev. The color is so intense.

Thanks Lynn! Makes me feel warm looking at it.

A mini campfire ablaze.

A nice summer color hold out