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What is the last plant blooming in your garden?

My Kale isn't really blooming but looking lovely
for November!

Last mini rose of summer

Can never remember if this is Lantana or Verbena

I know this is Lantana!! These are all in the south flower bed. This seems to be very hardy.
Brought one of them inside. Hope it makes it through the winter. Another experiment!
Thanks for looking.

Last one. Candula?? (MS) and a poor little
petunia!!! May have to give them a drink. supposed to be in the 70's all week.

Uh, please forgive me, but I do believe BOTH of those are verbena, just different colors. Love those things. We have little wild purple ones that grow along the roads down here.

Just saw this flower yesterday--don't know where it came from but it is one of the last blooms in the garden.

i agree with FFG, both of those are verbena. There is a lantana 'Lusious Grape' that is a light lavendar with very small blooms. i love it and it makes a great container plant.

Well the tag in the red one said Lantana?? Found tag for pink and it said Verbena? I have trouble telling them apart. Whatever they are I like them!! Thanks

Any more color left anywhere?! Very pretty in your yard Birdie!

Paws~ Could it be a Belladonna Lily~~***** Lady!?You might need to bring inside? Not sure.
Think I tried to grow one of those once? I think it disappeared over the winter...must have been a tasty chipmunk treat! :>)

oooooooooooh, those are pretty, and I agree, both look like verbena to me.

I still have some straggly daisies, red salvia and Mystic spire salvia blooming, and of course the mums which you have already seen.

Seems like the fall is going to be everybit as strange as the rest of the gardening year.

ve

I cut back my clematis about 6 wks ago and now have some blooms again.

This doesn't count as "blooms", but it is a smidgen of color on the China Girl holly ...
That's as much as I can show you, now that everything else has slowed to a crawl here in the midwest.

Cleaning out containers and found a few stragglers.

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Some purple million bells. Hate to pitch them but this may be our last nice weekend.

A nicotiana blooming outside my patio door. Note the oak leaves which are all over the patio.

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Finally some yellow blooms that look better than last month.

Sad to see them go! You had so much color Paws!

Love the turning Sedums!> One of my last!

I guess these could be called last bloomers.

Nandina berries


maiden grass w/birdhouse & oak tree



ve

so pretty! Do the birds like those berries?

Muddy, I did not know the answer to your question, so I did a google search. According to the article, both Mockingbirds & cedar waxwings will eat the berries. We don't normally have the waxwings but we do have lots of mockingbirds. I have yet to see one even near any of the several nandina bushes that I have.

I did find out something very interesting though. The leaves of the nandina bush are edible if boiled and rinsed a couple of times, just like the poke weed plant. However, I don't see myself cooking any nandina leaves, although here in the country we do eat poke sallet every spring.

ve