Blooming Friday: the end of October – never give in, never say die

October 30, 2009 | easygardener

Some flowers will not admit to the dying of the year.

It is almost November but these flowers refuse to give up.

Echinops bannaticus 'Taplow Blue'

Echinops bannaticus 'Taplow Blue'

You have got to admire an optimist.

Passiflora caerulea

Passiflora caerulea

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15 comments

1 Arabella Sock { 10.30.09 at 10:01 am }: That echinops is gorgeous. In my garden the cosmos are still making a great show, a huge unexpected drift of them where I chucked some seeds into the border and forgot about them. Penstemons, gaura and verbena boniarensis just never seem to stop flowering.
2 Charlotte { 10.30.09 at 11:22 am }: Thank heavens for the hardy hangers on to brighten our winter days!
3 Carol { 10.30.09 at 11:28 am }: Lovely post in photos and words. Love your Passion flower. Carol
4 catmint { 10.30.09 at 1:24 pm }: maybe they’re geographically confused, and think they’re in the southern hemisphere where it’s spring!
5 Marie Carpe Diem { 10.30.09 at 4:32 pm }: The passionflower is gorgeous
6 Maria Berg { 10.30.09 at 5:46 pm }: I have Echinops bannaticus ‘Taplow Blue’ in my garden but here it is only brown now and almost dead.
I love the Passiflora and I love the fruite from it, MB
7 AnnA { 10.30.09 at 7:12 pm }: Oh! I am also very found of Passifloras, and have some kinds of them.
Beautiful photos!
Have a nice weekend!/
AnnA
8 NatureFootstep { 10.30.09 at 9:45 pm }: the first one, so hard to photograph almost impossible to get a focus on.
9 AnneTanne { 10.30.09 at 10:23 pm }: Among my ‘real’ garden flowers (introduced, non-native ones), only the fall crocuses and the Cyclamen hederifolium are still blooming, but I guess I find at least ten native wildflowers in my garden that have at least some flowers.
10 Moa { 10.30.09 at 10:48 pm }: I love the passiflora.. what a beatiful flower.. =). I smiled at your words at my place.. I know the translation is bad but I’m glad that you understand the post.. But I think that translation is better than my own.. I hope =). Have a nice weekend.. Moa
11 Corner Gardener Sue { 10.31.09 at 4:23 am }: You either deadheaded your globe thistle, or are in a different season than I am. It sure is pretty! Mine are all finished blooming.
12 Kanak { 10.31.09 at 8:44 am }: Both blooms are stunning!
13 Lareine { 10.31.09 at 10:32 am }: isn’t it great to have these flowers brightening a gray autumn day?… globe thistles are great for dried flowers… and your passiflora is just beautiful …
14 Sweet Bay { 11.01.09 at 12:37 am }: I love the blues and purples on these flowers.
15 Karen's Garden Tips { 11.04.09 at 3:23 pm }: My globe thistles finished blooming in July and have already produced new basal foliage for next year. How do you do it?

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