Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: September 15

I am joining May Dreams Gardens to show off late summer blooms in my garden.

Semi Cactus Dahlia: This is its 2nd year, the plant has done very well compared to last year. We have had quite some beautiful flowers.

Black eyed susan: One of my favorite flowers, hope it comes back next year.

Gaillardia: Another favorite one.

Potato bush: This plant took off well this summer and it's in the blooming season.

Forget-me-not: I scattered some seeds in Spring and these took some time to grow, I love the light blue color.

Harvest Monday - Aug 22

We harvested lots of tomatoes last week along with some okra and bell peppers.






A bloom on the mystery gourd plant:



Beautiful Dahlias:



Blue Potato bush in bloom, the deep purple is gorgeous:

Flower bouquet from my backyard

We had some friends over for dinner on Saturday and I always like to have flowers in the house when people come over. I didn't have time to go to the store to buy flowers, so I ended up making a bouquet. Dahlias, Zinnias and Roses are in bloom right now. I made the flower arrangement using Coleus and a dinner plate Dahlia. How does it look?

Happy bloom day!

It's been gray and dreary in Southern California, raining on and off. We haven't seen sun in days now. These beautiful blooms cheer me up.

flowers in my apple tree 

ready to open 

humongous dinner plate Dahlia 

Zinnias 

This is how it was this morning around 7.30am

Semi Cactus Dahlias

I Love these Dahlias.

This one is huge, bigger than my palm.

This one is called 'Western Spanish Dancer', so cute.

Here is my other beauty I posted earlier:
http://zone10newbiegardener.blogspot.com/2010/07/dahlias.html

Tomato Harvest and more Dahlias

Kids were very excited to pick the tomatoes and take pics. This Dahlia plant has 3 flowers so far and more buds coming up. Rest of the plants are still small.

Note: Those of you who check my blog, please leave comments. I would appreciate it and as a newbie your comments would provide me inspiration. Thanks.

Dahlias

I planted some Dahlia tubers back in March and it took a long time for them to grow. A couple of them rotted due to over watering. Look at the Dinner Plate Dahlia that started blooming 3 days ago. It's so beautiful. It is a surprise variety because I had thrown away the package and I didn't know what it was. I googled and found out that it's 'Mystery Day'.