The news today is focused on Hurricane Helene and the devastation in north Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. It is a very sad day there for so many. Reports this morning indicated that 3.5 million were without power. Some would be without power for several days. Flooding was reported in north Georgia and the Carolinas.
My location is about 100 miles from the eye of the storm as it passed to the east of us. We have some breezy conditions today but the sun has come out and it is beautiful.
The fall garden is beautiful. The milder temps are bringing much needed relief. It is showing up with a fall outburst of bloomers. The pollinators are out in force.
I will be joining the #SixonSaturday crowd tomorrow. If you would like to join us, take 6 photos and post them on a blog or file. All you need to know is found on this link hosted by Jim Stephens. https://gardenruminations.co.uk
The goldenrod is a signature of the fall and it is just beginning this week.
I have posted the Autumn Joy in the last few weeks but this one is definitely at its peak.
The sasanqua camellia is early this year. It is so colorful that it overwhelmed the processor in the camera.
The pollinators were out in force this morning.
The painted lady is a newcomer to my garden and it is very welcome.
The gulf fritillary loves the lantana. They are my most visible and abundant pollinator.
The carpenter bee was motionless when I took this shot. It was waiting to warm up begin its day.
Happy Gardening!
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Lovely to see the pollinators. Hope the Hurricane debris etc gets cleared up soon.
We continue to have a very wet September. My husband measures daily rainfall and he says that we have had the wettest month since November 2022. It has also turned cold and this morning’s temperature is a chilly 4 degrees Celsius.
We started out dry but the hurricanes have brought abundant rain during September. The hurricane season extends into November so we will probably have a good chance for more.
I’m also keeping up to date with the devastating news of this hurricane, especially since my son, as I told you, is traveling to Louisiana. This one hit further east from him and caused a lot of damage… so sad news.
About your post this week, I am also very surprised by the precocity of the camellia sasanqua! Love the carpenter bees too. Ours are gone, it’s getting too cold like Rosie said (5°c this morning )
Your son is well away from the storm. The breadth of this storm with the astonishing amount of rain is the incredible part. The flooding in North Carolina is devastating. This mountainous area is one we have frequently visited.
My thoughts have been with you over the pond, it sounds devastating. Lovely to see the bees and the butterflies and of course your autumnal blooms.
As far north as I am, my goldenrod is nearly bloomed out. It is new to my garden this year – is it a thug? I am always torn between wanting to remove seeds (to not have too many of one thing) and wanting the birds to have food. I do remove milkweeds seed pods, but even that is challenging. I wait until they are just ready to pop (but sometimes they pop before I get to them). So yesterday, I was cutting some fresher pods, but then the milkweed bugs were scurrying. I have to leave the pods for them! So I will go back to waiting until they are ready to pop. We are warmer than normal here and dry. It looks like Illinois and Michigan will get rain from hurricane remnants, but we will stay dry.
Goldenrod is not a thug but it does like to reseed and has to be managed.
I cut the pods at the first sign of popping of milkweed. I also try to leave the seed heads of purple coneflowers later in the summer.
Golden Rod was a plant that I remember from the1960’s in the UK which could be found in most gardens passed from gardener to gardener. We didn’t have a lot of choice then so its bright yellow flowers were very popular.
Hurricane Helene sounded horrendous from what I’ve read in the news. Your garden’s looking good though. I’ve not had any Painted Lady butterflies visit the garden this year – in fact there have been hardly any butterflies at all.