Well this has been a terrible summer for us.  We have a few flowers for Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day, but we have lost so many plants to drought.  The Princess Flower has survived because it is on the porch getting regular water.

But we don’t have anything like the usual flowering at this time of year.  Probably the most striking flowers right now are the dahlias which also have gotten fairly regular watering.

The sedum is pretty hardy and has returned with its usual flowering for September.

And the colchicum at coming out the ground as scheduled.

The very reliable cestrum is still in flower.

And walking about the yard yesterday, I found a few cyclamen with fall flowers.

In the greenhouse a pot of the non-hardy cyclamen was also in bloom.

Beside it are several pots of sinninglia species (that are happy to spread to neighboring pots)

It is worth mentioning that the dry weather has been very good for our figs and it’s become a lunchtime habit for me.

Also very noteworthy is a lovely little bukiniczia with great foliage in the alpine bed. It came from seed this year and should be able to flower next year.