Friday, September 25, 2009

Blooming Friday~ Favorite Wildflower

For Blooming Friday this week Katarina at roses and stuff asks us what our favorite wildflower is. My favorite wildflower may be different on any given day. I would not say that any flower currently blooming in my garden would be my favorite but I do have one on the verge of blooming that's a contender.

I received the seeds for Georgia Aster from a generous Garden Webber and native plant enthusiast from Georgia. I hope that all is well with her given the current state of affairs in parts of Georgia. I didn't even know what the plant and flowers would look like. I love it! It reseeds like a good wildflower too.

























This is a new acquisition from Plant Delights Nursery in July 09~ Vernonia lettermannii. I wish I still had some of the tall ironweed that is blooming in the wild here in NC.



Eupatorium coelestinum aka Wild Ageratum ~ definitely a "wild' flower.



I discovered these blooms for the first time this morning on this mystery Salvia. I suspect it's a microphylla but I don't remember planting it and I've had lots of salvias as trades and from seeds. An ID would be most welcome!

12 comments:

  1. Exchanging seeds and plants with fellow gardeners is such a pleasure - and a great way to remember the generous person. Your Aster looks very pretty!

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  2. All theses wildflowers look pretty and nice.

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  3. Beautiful. I think this past winter may have been too wet for my Ga aster, but I'm pretty sure I still have seed. lol

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  4. I love the foliage on the Georgia Aster~~must check that pretty out! gail

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  5. Pretty pictures and I'm glad I found your blog.

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  6. I just love iron weed. There are still a few blooms hanging on it here.

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  7. I just read about ironweed for the first time the other day, and since then, I've heard several others mention it. I'll have to see about finding some. I don't know what your salvia is, but the leaves look like the ones on my pink one that appeared in my garden last year that I didn't remember planting. I liked it well enough that I put some spent stems in a different flower bed, and they are blooming nicely.

    I'm like you, I can't pick one favorite.

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  8. Congratulations on being a silver medalist for your excellent grass photo. It's the time of year for wonderful wild things, with and without wings.

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  9. I don't know if your silver medal information was on your sidebar the other day, but after reading NellJean's comment I went and looked. Congratulations! It is an awesome photo!

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  10. Congrats on your Gardening Gone Wild photo contest win! It was a great photo. gail

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  11. Oh thanks for showing the Georgia aster, I love the form and branching of it. Congrats on the silver medal, well deserved! We only have the very, read too tall V. altissima here and would love to have the smaller. Funny how the grass is always greener.... :-)
    Frances

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  12. What a lovely Aster, and wounderful to grow from given seeds. Have a great week end.

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