Sigh!!! We had our first freeze last night, it wasn't predicted until tonight. I took a few pictures of the last blooms of Fall, this weekend. Hope you like them.
In the last week the leaves have started to change on the Chinese Pistache '
Pistacia chinensis' http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/cemap/Pistache/pistache.html. A great tree for Oklahoma, I think we have 4, but they don't all have the beautiful fall color that this one does.
Our small town was given a truckload of plants and residents could pick them up. By the time I arrived there were only 2 varieties to choose from, but I did get 3 "Pink Velour" Crepe Myrtle Plants. I already had one, this photo is not great but you can see the flower color, plus the leaves are a beautiful dark purpley color. We planted those Saturday.
This is a small Reblooming Iris 'St. Petersburg'. This is only the second bloom for fall, I don't know if the weather will let it bloom again or not. The reblooms usually do get clipped by frost. It's lovely in spring, too.
This is Red Castor Bean, it never did get large enough to flower, a local friend I met through Yahoo Groups for Oklahoma Gardening was kind enough to give me some seeds, so maybe next year! Behind is Artemesia 'Powis Castle' an Oklahoma Proven plant
http://www.ogga.org/okproven.htm.
Mine needs a serious haircut, but from what I read I must wait until spring.
I planted this little ground cover under the 'Pink Velour' Crepe Myrtle. I didn't know what it was when I bought it, but it was very cute. I found it's name on another blog! I planted a small 6 pack and it's grown to a 4' x 2' area, hope it's not invasive here. This is what Hayefield House
http://hayefieldhouse.com/2008/10/ called it..
Pink knotweed (Persicaria capitata; also known as Polygonum capitatum)
These are poppies from a friends garden this past May. She shared seeds and I scattered them about 3 weeks ago. I hope mine look this good!
