What’s Blooming Now In Eve’s Garden

Unruly. Out of control. Overgrown. That’s my garden this year. But it’s still beautiful in its own wild way, and it’s hosting more beneficial insects and pollinators than ever. One of the things I love about both the natural landscape and my own garden is the constant evolution, the sequence of growth and bloom and seed formation, the ever-changing scene.

Some elements in nature and in the garden are quite ephemeral; if you look away, you might miss them altogether. But it’s so exciting to be present, to be looking when, for example, the Angel’s Trumpet (Datura meteloides or wrightii) flowers unfurl, and to breath their intoxicating fragrance in the night. Some

appear on the scene with no prior notice, like the Colchicum flowers that just appeared this morning, as if by spontaneous generation, bursting through the Plumbago, or in spots that were bare yesterday!

By the way, Waterlily Colchicums, Autumn Crocus and fall-blooming Saffron Crocus bulbs are here, and ready to plant now!

As the summer transitions toward autumn, there are still plenty of summer blooms persisting, and there are plenty of new arrivals. In my garden right now, masses of Grapeleaf Anemones are still a dominant feature, along with Rocky Mountain Blazing Star and Blue Select Catmint, Apache Plume, Gaura, Tuscan Honeymoon Dianthus, Plumbago, Chocolate Flower, Bigelow’s Tansyaster, Prairie Zinnia, Scarlet Gilia, Pineywoods Geranium, Woodland Tobacco and Red Yucca. At the same time, the Fendler’s Globemallow and tall sedums, Autumn Joy and Matrona, are blooming, Aromatic Aster has more blooms every day, Golden Lace is just beginning to bloom, as are Ironweed, Prairie Aster, Wright’s Buckwheat and Dwarf Blue Rabbitbrush.

And I can’t leave out the grasses – Blonde Ambition Blue Grama, Prairie Dropseed, Korean Feather Grass, Little Bluestem, and Northern Sea Oats in my garden, that lend their grace and motion, and provide important habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects

Even if not all of the late-summer and fall-bloomers on my list are currently in stock, we still have some of them – and others – on sale for 25% off – and you can start planning next year’s plantings!

List of what’s blooming in Eve’s garden now

Angel’s Trumpet – Datura meteloides

Apache Plume – Fallugia paradoxa

Aromatic Aster – Symphiotrichum oblongifolium

Autumn Joy Tall Sedum – Sedum telephium Autumn Joy

Bat-faced Cuphea – Cuphea llavea

Bigelow’s Tansyaster – Machaeranthera bigelovii

Black-eyed Susan – Rudbeckia hirta

Blackfoot Daisy – Melampodium leucanthum

Blonde Ambition Blue Grama – Bouteloua gracilis

Blue Blazes Agastache – Agastache Blue Blazes

Blue Select Catmint – Nepeta x ‘Blue Select’

Bridge’s Penstemon – Penstemon rostriflorus

Bush Clematis – Clematis integrifolia

Bush Clover – Lespedeza thunbergii

California Brickellbush – Brickelia californica

Cardinal Climber – Ipomoea quamoclit

Chocolate Flower – Berlandiera lyrate

Cutleaf Beardtongue – Penstemon richardsonii

Cyclamen purpurascens – Purple Cyclamen

Dianthus sp. Tuscan Honeymoon

Dotted Blazing Star – Liatris punctata

Double Bubble Mint – Agastache cana

Dropmore Scarlet Honeysuckle – Lonicera x brownii

Dwarf Blue Rabbitbrush – Ericameria naus. ssp nauseosus

Engelmann Daisy – Engelmannia peristenia

Fendler’s Globemallow – Sphaeralcea fendleri

Fragrant Plantain Lily – Hosta plantaginea grandiflora

Garlic Chives – Allium tuberosum

Geranium caespitosum

Golden Lace – Patrinia scabiosifolia

Grapeleaf Anemone – Anemone tomentosa Robustissima

Guara – Guara lendheimeri

Ironweed – Vernonia

Ivy-leafed Cyclamen – Cyclamen hederifolium

Korean Feather Grass – Calamagrostis arundinacea

Letterman’s Ironweed – Vernonia lettermanii

Little Bluestem – Schizachyrium scoparium

Matrona Tall Sedum – Sedum Matrona

Northern Sea Oats – Chasmanthium latifolium

Perfect Pink Santa Fe Phlox – Phlox nana ‘Perfect Pink’

Pineywoods Geranium – Geranium caespitosum

Porter’s Aster, Smooth White Aster – Symphiotrichum porteri

Prairie Aster – Symphiotrichum turbinellum turbinella

Prairie Dropseed – Sporobolus heterolepis

Prairie Zinnia – Zinnia grandiflora

Princess Diana Texas Clematis – Clematis Princess Diana

Pumbago – Ceratostigma plumbaginoides

Purple Cluster Verbena – Verbena bonariensis

Red Yucca – Hesperaloe parviflora

Rocky Mt. Blazing Star – Liatris ligulistylis

Santos Purple Vervain – Verbena rigida Santos Purple

Scarlet Gilia – Ipomopsis rubra

Shimmer Evening Primrose – Oenothera fremontii ‘Shimmer’

Showy Colchicum – Colchicum speciosum

Showy Goldenrod – Solidago speciosa

Siberian Statice – Limonium gmellinii

Spanish Flag Vine – Mina lobata

Sunset Hyssop – Double Bubble MintAgastache rupestris

Vermillion Bluffs Mexican Sage – Salvia darcyi

Waterlily Colchicum – Colchicum ‘Double Waterlily’

Whirling Butterflies – Gaura lindheimeri

Woodland Tobacco – Nicotiana sylvestris

Wright’s Buckwheat – Eriogonum wrightii v wrightii