My Blooming Poinsettia...From Last Year

Believe it or not this poinsettia after last years was tenderly taken care of until spring when it was warm enough to put in the yard.  The eight little scrawny stems were  planted  and prayed over.  they started to fill out and get bushy.  So before the first frost this year I dug it up and brought it inside.  And now look...it is blooming for the second year in a row.  It is really scrawny looking but it is blooming!!!!

Lovely Surprise

I found this late blooming Gerber daisy hiding in the planter on the driveway.  I wonder if it will be able to survive tonight when it gets down in the low 30's.  These flowers have been great bloomers for us all season.  I hope that he seeds that I was able to harvest will grow for next years crop.

Wonders Never Cease

This is the strangest plant.  Some background...last year Mark brought home the biggest pointsettia from Lowe's that I have ever seen.  Seriously it was two feet wide and full of beautiful flowers.  I babied it all winter and on into the spring...which is a miracle in and of it's self.  When it warmed up outside I decided to see what would happen if I  planted it in the yard.  It grew, got bushy and seemed to thrive in our dry/wet summer.  The other day the weather service said it was going to frost so we dug up the poinsettia and brought it in.  Now one side of it is not looking so good but I think it just might be in shock.  I'll baby it this fall and winter to see if it will last.  Craziest thing I have ever seen.  And to think I thought I didn't have a green thumb.

Unbelievable!

Today when Ella and I took our little stroll down the driveway to the mailbox I was SHOCKED to see this...unbelievable

Forsythia blooming at the end of October!  WHAT?

So I thought I would just have a little look around since it has been a day since I have been out in the yard...not that much could have changed...

our one and only little mum

The cosmos are just from seed I haphazardly just threw into the raised beds and the daisies we planted but had no idea what they were.

the never ending  bloomer 

These little roses have lived thru so much.  They moved to WI with us and then back to OH.  I can not part with them.  When we moved to WI about 12 years ago the youth group gave me a little potted rose bush that had maybe three buds on it.  Now it stands about three feet tall and is about that round.  Where ever I go it goes!

  

This Impatient volunteered to come up in the bricks under the pergola.  I just love that!

Zinnias are going crazy and look at the added bonus!  Two monarchs in two days.

A white coneflower

The Yard That Never Quits

I am totally amazed that we still have flowers blooming.  Today these are the surprises that I found.

In The Bus Stop Bed

I remembering planting this last year.  I remember Mark telling me the name.  But I can't remember it to save my soul.

Shocked

I was so shocked when I saw these flowers this morning.  I am trying so hard to keep some flowers looking good until the 13 of the month.  Someone posted on FreeCycle that they needs some fresh flowers for table arrangements for a MOPS group.  I am trying really had but I am afraid that we might be using lots of hosta  and ornamental grass as fillers for the arrangements.  So I was more than excited when I found these.

Gifts Of The Morning

morning glory from seeds harvested from last year

 finally blooming

gayfeather from seeds also

love these vines

This glad volunteered to come up way back in the raised vegetable bed.

"Glories" In The Morning

And some Rose of Sharon too.

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Some Peepers

Peepers is what I am going to call these three.  When I was watering yesterday they were all sorta peeping out from behind something else.  You couldn't really see them until the water got heavy on the leaves in front of them causing the leaves to droop.

I didn't realize that I was getting three in one in this shot.  A bud, an almost bloom and a spent flower.  Kind of like the stages of life...being a newborn, in your prime and those senior years.

A few posts ago I took pictures of some buds and I thought they might be wild morning glories.  Yep, I was right.  Better not let them get away from me or they will take over.

Last Nights Finds

I was watering last night and found these three beauties.

Sneaky Ones

These two little beauties are from seeds that I harvested last year.  I just kinda threw a handful into the air back where the raised beds are just to see what would happen.

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I have been hoping that the deer wouldn't find these glads.  I don't remember planting these here...I could have sworn they were supposed to be hollyhocks.  But maybe again not because the deer ate all the hollyhocks we had planted here.  I still don't remember planting them.

I have no idea what this vine is.  But I am going to guess something like a wild morning glory.  I'll get a  pic when they bloom.