In the garden of mid-Ocotober’s dissipating beauty ~
Black Swallowtail Butterfly and Fennel
Mandevilla
Zucchini Blossom
Toad Lily
Calico Aster
Rudbeckia and Smooth Aster
Monarch Butterfly and Smooth Aster
Sheffield and Korean Daisies
Moonflowers and Cardinal Climber
Gaura lindheimeri ‘Siskiyou Pink’
‘Endless Summer’ Hydrangea and Sargent’s Crabapple
‘Annabelle’ Hydrangea and Winterberry
Begonia
Morning Glories
Geraniums
And the fabulously fragrant remontant roses ‘Souvenir de Victor Landeau’ and’Aloha’
Souvenir de Victor Landeau
‘Aloha’
Warm here in Florida. Your garden looks wonderful. We seem to have lots of monarchs here for this time of year. Sorry I am not there for the milkweed seeds.
Thank you Jan. Strange year for Monarchs. I will set aside some seeds for you. Ideally they would be scattered on the ground at this time of year. I’ll keep them in a paper bag over my cellar bulkhead stairs so the seeds will experience the winter climate.
Compare your zucchini (Cucurbita pepo) flower to that of the buffalo gourd (Cucurbita foetidissima) that grows wild in Texas:
http://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/buffalo-gourd-flower/