Lantana blossoms doing a great job of previewing tomorrow’s fireworks.
Tiny Fireworks
Category: Annual Flowers
Mixed Bouquet
If you stop to look, you can find a variety of small flowers blooming in some of the raised planters.
Late-Blooming Geranium
The growing season is drawing to an end, but this colorful geranium on the steps of 217 W 106th doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo and is putting on a show amidst the drying grass and slowly-yellowing leaves.
Pink and Purple Blooms
Our garden got badly parched this summer, but it’s managed to bounce back a little as temperatures have dropped from their peaks.
Blazing
A nice fiery set of pansies has popped out following today’s rain.
Woah, it’s Woad!
So many tiny yellow flowers — the woad is in bloom!
Fall Color
Summer may be over, but the sidewalk garden is still ticking along.
The asters which have looked plain all year are suddenly showing their delicate little flowers.
A couple of the rose bushes are still putting out new buds that are so intensely colorful that my phone’s camera doesn’t really know what to do with them.
The tomato plants are dying back, but throwing the last of their energy into ripening just a few more fruits.
And the giant sunflower has decided to go out with a bang.
Blooming Coleus
It was only this spring that I learned that coleus is a member of the mint family — square stems, pointy leaf tips, spike of little flowers — but despite this fact you definitely should not eat it.
Pink Clover
As if to measure up to its scarlet cousin currently blooming ten feet away, this pink clover has popped up in another of our containers.
(I think this pink one is Trifolium pratense, while the scarlet is T. incarnatum, but that’s just a guess.)
Crimson Clover
I scattered a bunch of crimson clover seed a while ago as a nitrogen-fixing ground cover, but I wasn’t quite prepared for how pretty the flowers are.
