A Second Blooming

I don’t know if it was the long hot dry spell followed by a week of heavy rain but just about every flowering plant in my garden has put out a second set of blooms. Followers of this blog will notice the differences in the following pictures.
I had a worry about the Cosmos wintering in our garden and the boffins online say it’s not generally a perennial in this climate. But not only have they bloomed again, but there are additional plants coming up that can only be a result of the seeds of the first bloom falling into the pot. I wish I had thought to harvest some of them. I think I will move the pots from the fence into the greenhouse before the low temps are here to stay. I DID acquire some poppy seeds, and some Colombine seeds for next year. And some from the Venus fly trap, but those I’m very uncertain of. I don’t think I can provide them a place with the correct conditions. I guess I’ll know next year. But knowing me, I will be out in the greenhouse come February trying to get an early start on spring!

Here you can see roses in every stage of development . She has newly formed buds and everything in between to the last falling petals. That corner of our garden also houses a few spiderwebs that the petals get suspended in. It makes it a bit magical and I am certain the pixies dance nightly there.

This is a marigold that was one of those mystery seeds I planted in the Spring. It was slow to grow, drooped a bit but produced two flowers in late June. Here it is again, one spectacular flower with another bud awaiting in the wings.

A determined butterfly is taking advantage of the new blooms, I think he may be the last of the summer.

The ceanothus bloomed again, a bit more sparsely than before but always welcome its unique blue coloration.

The pyrocantha has not bloomed again, but is an absolute cascade of red berries down our garden wall!

And not to be outdone, the Willowherb is continuing to wow with its tiny flowers though most have become white wisps of seeds that are blowing around in the garden.

I do not know what this all means for our coming winter, or even spring beyond. I chose to believe that Nature has given us a few more reasons to enjoy our gardens before it becomes too cool to enjoy at leisure.

Even my Mexican orange plant has bloomed again, I’m sure it first did so back in May.