Never had an October bloom before, not even on Stella. May never have one again, so go, Prickly Sensation!

Golden NOID blooming in the rain, with more buds waiting in the wings:

October blooms! Those look good. Systems of Edges was sorta open today. After all the cold nights the color was terrible.

Steller's Jay is still pumping, I just wish I liked the flower better

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This lovely daylily is still blooming in my garden. It also has many proliferations.

Challenger threw up a scape. Surprised! Nice to see though. Looks six blooms will happen.

Still having blooms on Genesta and Heavenly United We Stand and another bud on Pansy Yellow. I haven't taken more pics because they all look the same, my phone is too full and the bugs eat me up Turning colder this week.

Real soon now

Big Time Happy

BURST INTO BLOOM, did just that today. (I forget where I got it.) It's in a small pot on the deck and has survived drought and excess heat. First bloom here. I think I got it at a club plant sale. It looks more lavender than this photo.

Stella is still going here. Pansy Face Charmer and Buddy's Kimberly have buds close to opening.

After our freeze this week I assume all will be gone for the season

We have a few days of heat now, there's some scapes with flowers that are close. No freeze in the 10 day forecast. My only photo is more illustrative of a bad habit than pretty. Debra Scott takes so long to open when temperatures drop that, twice now, by the time the sepals unfurl, the petals are done for.




Not great for a Northern garden…

So far, nothing of mine has sent up an October scape (not that I've been looking all that closely) but several varieties rebloomed for me in September.

~Rosy Returns
~Stella D'Oro
~Purple D'Oro

Big Time Happy sent up 11 scapes in June on through July and has not given me a rebloom scape. I wait patiently.

A repeat, for sure, but what's important to note is that it was 44 degrees out this morning when I took this picture of Prickly Sensation. I thought it looked pretty darned good! It was in the upper 30's overnight, and I did have a frost cover on it. There's been a bloom nearly every day this month, with flowers lastly about a day and a half in the cooler temps.


Black Eyed Stella was not covered and had trouble opening. Regular Stella decided to send up a third round of rebloom scapes, so have covered those just to see how late I can stretch it. But there is a hard freeze forecast tonight.

What are you covering them with? I might try it tomorrow…

Zoia said: What are you covering them with? I might try it tomorrow…

I have a shrub cover that I got off Amazon. The fabric is like row cover, only a little heavier, with a drawstring bottom. The material is a non-woven polyester. It lets light through, so I can just leave it on. I may add an old blanket overnight tonight, as it is going to be below freezing from midnight straight through. The biggest challenge was figuring out something to keep the cover from laying directly on the flower buds. I snapped them off Susan Weber when I first attempted to cover a scape.

The weather is holding out, nice days into the high 70s, nights in the mid 50s.

The rebloom scape on Shannara has a couple of buds left, and it's looking surprisingly good this morning. There's a sweet spot where the nights are cool enough to enhance petal width, but still warm enough to allow correct opening



A short, sneaky, late scape on Curt's Gift was a total surprise.


I've seen a couple of late scapes emerging in the past couple of weeks, but I doubt they'll make it to bloom without being damaged.

Waiting for Final Touch and Stella buds to open; going to have a hard frost tomorrow night and may try to cover Final Touch just to see if I can stretch it. I do have a couple of last blooms on Pow Wow Wild Berry, Achillea Strawberry Seduction, Achillea Sunny Seduction, and the Pineapple Sage I planted in June is FINALLY blooming.

As usual Helicopter is still blooming. Averages 4 months in bloom here in 6B. Gotta love that.

Helicopter

Late scape on Patricia Snider Memorial. Doubt if I will see blooms.