The outstanding perennial right now is the bright yellow swamp sunflower (helianthus angustifolius 'First Light'). The other perennials in full bloom include the salvias: leucantha, mystic spires, indigo spires, pineapple sage and all the greggii colors.

What's blooming in your garden?

Cameron

Here the season is almost over....predicted freeze in a few days. I have been letting the annuals dry normally, no deadheading so they aren't looking their best.

The star would have to be the self-seeded petunias around the patio. I just love these flowers and they have looked great all year. They must really like the cooler weather because they have stayed so nice this year.

and the dogwood tree is looking very pretty with its bright red berries:

I've still got coreopsis full moon, datura, brugmansia, a few echinacea, veronica, knockout roses, helianthus (from Carrie 360), and a few other things, Yvonne's salvia, savlia subrotunda, black and blue salvia, lots o salvias. Next year I have to work on the zinnias. I never cut mine back and they flopped at about 5' tall.

Nancy.

Your house and garden are beautiful!

Jim

As I look out the window I have OGR's Moonlight, Felicity, Gruss an Aachen ,Cecille Brunner,all in bloom. Pansises and Johnny jump ups, Sweet Olive is AMAZING this year. I have never ever seen the like . Tibouchina is just finishing. Lemon-quat citrus is still blooming and setting fruit. Agastaches are still in bloom. I think that is all...c

And, frog and molly, thanks for the BEAUTIFUL Sheffield mum pics to add to my winter dreams/obsessions for next year. May I assume you pinched them a couple times during the summer?

Pat

Mums are late this year; the asters have been blooming for over a week:

A couple of salvias and my bargain mums (almost open) from last year's clearance rack:

The yellow is Mexican mint marigold, cinnamon basil to its right:

Marigold's- I'm so glad I planted them. Blooming all summer and still
looking great. I received these seeds in a trade, more plants cheaper.
Butterfly Ginger-I can smell their perfume in the air.
Cosmos- Only 1 pink plant, but it still makes a statement.
Pineapple Sage- Always buy small plant in spring. Have not figured out
where the seeds are..Love it.
Stevia- Not all that pretty, but blooming
Nasturtiums-Still blooming

Unknown purple iris, purple osteospermum & yellow euryops:

Shrub & trailing lantanas:

Limonium:

Red Oleander (and the white is blooming too)

Coral passiflora & Tibouchina urvilleana:

Delany Sisters rose & purple passiflora:

Double Delight rose:

Intrigue rose:

Plectranthus groundcover:

osmanthus fragrans
white butterfly ginger (has been blooming for a month)
gardenia 'August Beauty'

Cameron

My gardens got frosted a few weeks ago. :-( It was a little early this year. Now everything is shriveled and brown. The Toad Lilies were frosted after they had been out for only three days. My Eupatorium 'Chocolate' has never bloomed since I bought it five/six years ago. Always nipped by early frosts.

The last things to stay blooming in the garden up to frost were:

Rudbeckia nitida 'Herbstonne'
Aster 'Monch' and an New York Aster
Chrysanthemum (kind of obvious...)
Helenium 'Mardi Gras'- this plant will not stop blooming!
Calendula and Snapdragons
Crocosmia 'George Davison'- which was surprising
Helianthus, double form

I would also like to say the Hypericum 'Albury Purple' is also amazing. The last bloom was in September, but the foliage is still really pretty; it goes through so many subtle color changes during the growing season.
CMK

This is the time of year that gardens do very well here and I'm looking forward to the next 5-6 months of cooler weather to play outside.

Here is some of what is blooming down here right now.

Happy Autumn to all ~ FlowerLady

Thanks for the compliment ;-) Though I suspect you meant someone else on the tread since I didn't post pics. If I did post pics you would all shreek and cover your eyes- it is really a ghastly sight! Lol.
CMK

Eduarda

Being from the Midwest, it still amazes me that I can have roses almost year-round, and especially around Thanksgiving. The nights are cool but the days are still warm, so my (sadly, few) roses love it. I took some photos this morning and am posting them below.

This is Double Delight, in a wider angle than the photo taken in mid-October above:

This is Double Delight again, with Delany Sisters right next to it:

This is my Intrigue standard:

This is the Joseph’s Coat climber:

This is a shrub rose, J&P’s Ladies in Waiting. It’s fragrant and quite lovely, but only flops if you try to cut it for the vase:

Here’s a closeup of Delany Sisters:

This is looking alongside the house, back up towards the street. As you can see this is a very narrow bed, just 12" deep! It faces south so the roses are very happy here. That's Intrigue in front with Ladies at its feet, with Delany, then Double Delight furthest away.

Here's a photo of my prized variegated pink dwarf canna. It doesn't bloom very much, but it has managed to survive our three very dry summers with minimal watering, so I count it a success:

And here's my real surprise - the freesias are coming up! The early October rain was hard enough to awaken them, so I've continued to sprinkle them once a week. Looks like I'll have blooms at least a month early this season:

That one was bigger than my fist. And I got big hands.

Lois in PA