Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: September 15

 

Once again, I'm in limbo while we're building a new home, so I've had to borrow blooms for GBBD. How lucky am I to have Lake Harriet with its Rose Garden, Peace Garden and Trial Gardens just around the bend. These beautiful gardens have made this almost garden-less summer much easier knowing I can take a short walk and be surrounded with so many flowers.

There's a certain magical quality to September sunlight. Low and mellow, golden. Morning light here is soft, suffused with sprinklers and road dust along this herbaceous border. The iPhone is perfect for these situations.

Plume poppies glow

Fading sunflowers

Green-gold blades of grass thread their way through spiky seedheads.

I came back with my camera in late afternoon as the sun descended to light up the other side of the park.

Lobelia and other native plants in the rain garden

Busy bugs all over the goldenrod

Fuzzy pods of butterfly weed

Asters alive with tiny beneficial wasps

Monarch butterfly on verbena bonariensis, a favorite

Lilac-color spikes of obedient plant

Stained glass effect of Mexican sunflower

Nodding anemones

Coneflower ID please?

Grasshopper dining on dahlias

Bees enjoying Autumn Joy sedum

Lavender 'Oxford Gem', will it be Minnesota hardy?

Rosy spikes of millet

Silvery miscanthus and glowing blood grass I spied on the way home

 

For more dazzling blooms stop over at Carol's May Dreams Garden to find all the links to other posts from all over the gardening world.