Yesterday was the first day of fall and today definitely feels like it.
We have strong wind gusts, cloudy skies, and relatively (for southeast Michigan in September) cool temperatures in the low 60’s degrees Fahrenheit.
Doesn’t seem to make a difference to my flowering plants.
Brilliant red, yellow, white, purple, blue, and orange flowers are blooming throughout my yard.
Though many are at the end of their blooming season.
Here’s my list of flowering plants in my garden this week:
- Anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)
- Autumn Joy sedum (Hylotelephium telephium ‘Herbstfreude’)
- Black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
- Blue-stemmed goldenrod (Solidago caesia) – one of the last native plants to bloom in fall
- Blue wood aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium)
- Brown-eyed susan (Rudbeckia triloba)
- Calendula (Calendula officinalis)
- Canna lily (Canna × generalis)
- Chrysanthemum
- Coreopsis (Coreopsis grandiflora)
- Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus)
- Dahlia
- Evening primrose (Oenothera biennis)
- Everbearing strawberries (Fragaria × ananassa ‘Quinault’)
- Great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
- Hostas
- Marigold (Tagetes)
- Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)
- New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
- Orange coneflower (Rudbeckia fulgida)
- Pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea)
- Pentas (Pentas lanceolata)
- Salvia – Red and Black-and-blue)
- Shasta daisy (Leucanthemum × superbum)
- Short’s aster (Symphyotrichum shortii) – another one of the last native plants to bloom in fall
- Showy goldenrod (Solidago speciosa)
- Stiff goldenrod (Oligoneuron rigidum)
- Snapdragons (Antirrhinum)
- Sunflowers
- Sweet alyssum (Lobularia maritima)
- Zinnia (Zinnia elegans) – Three varieties: Takii’s Choice, Lilliput, and State Fair
What plants are blooming in your garden?
