Gardening Flowers & Foliage

Misquamicut state beach Rhode Island…
Some drought resistant beach goldenrod.

Beach roses:

 

Fall colors along the drainage ditch on the south side of the house

The aptly named Tall White Asters


TWAs with a bee


New England asters


There is a lot going on. At the very left, all that red is Virginia creeper. Although a "native" it is pretty invasive and hides poison ivy well. every coupld of years I try to clean it out - obviously this year that didn't happen (to be fair, it is hard to see when it is in a mess of stuff like here). To the right is Goldenrod. and in the center are a whole bunch of things, gut the flowers are New England asters (actually behind the previous picture)


This is the only cultivated plant in the bunch. Burgundy Bell maple is starting to turn from the top, down.

 

those look a lot like what we would call Michaelmas Daisies

 

Had to look those up. The Michaelmas daisies are European natives that are under 2" while New England asters are USA natives at 3-6' tall (the ones pictured above are about 5' tall). The ones in my yard are not cultivated

But, it's hard to really know if there are any real differences besides height, because several of the websites visited clumped them together. Even wikipedia has very sparse info on the Michaelmas daisy. I think it is safe to say that they look enough alike that it depends on what area you grew up in (or live in) as to the common vernacular.

 

The asters that we see wild here range from 2 ft to 3 ft tall. A variation on what you have back there I guess.

 

After the 3 days of darkness and rain (mostly drizzle, but did get just under 2.25" of rain between Tuesday night and Friday morning) the Burgundy Belle maple is in her full majesty. I normally don't get a full display, so this is really special.

 

A few flowers from around the yard.
Hydrangea decided to put out a couple more blooms
And we had 2 azaleas bloom again
Not sure on this one...
Our lantanas are really making the butterflies happy...

 

Wow it sure lived up to its name.

 

I thought it might be marigold. Miz Carol planted it

 

Definitely Marigold

 

Winterberries are huge and plentiful for the birds this year. I have 3-4 females with a couple of males for pollinators.

 

bogieb Beautiful colour. I was going to ask if they are edible but then I googled it and found out they aren't for humans.

 

Nope, not for humans. But, they are a native plant that feeds wildlife and branches of berries are used quite a lot for winter holiday decorations.

 

Just getting some blooms from this hydrangea.

 

Seems really late for a hydrangea, but undeniably so pretty it was worth the wait.

 

A couple of late bloomers, looking lonely.

 

The goldfinches already picked my coneflower pretty clean.

 

Color enhanced by sunrise

 

October Glory is always the last maple to turn. Instead of doing so gradually, all the leaves turn within 2 days. First pic is from Sunday (10/19), where the top half had turned overnight. The rest of the pics are from yesterday (10/20), where the whole tree had turned.




Autumn Blaze (right foreground) still had a few leaves left. October Glory is in the middle and burning bush to the left