Re: cold snap?/ What's blooming

Here in WA zone 7/8 the Cyclamen hederifolium are starting their bloom season.
The hardy geraniums have started their second bloom along with the roses.  I
have a climbing aconite with considerable bloom on it this year.  It's
completing the rainbow hues (blue/purple) by climbing through an enkianthus in
it's fall colors (green/red/orange/yellow).  Clematis are still blooming.  Some
hellebores are budded.  The late hydrangeas still look great.  Native mahonias
are berried up.  (By the way, if anyone does dry floral arrangements, the
mahonia leaves preserved in glycerin are great.  They come out in colors of dark
green to maroon.)
The cooler temps change the color of the flowers and along with the trees
changing color make it seem like an entirely different garden.

Susan Campanini wrote:

>         We have had a cold snap here in zone 5b, not frost but low thirties,
> so we have taken in the house plants for the year. A few maples are starting
> to turn red, and the wind smells like the end of the gardening season is
> right around the corner.
>         Nonetheless, there are still plenty of blooms in the garden, both
> annual and perennial. I know we're not supposed to mention annuals, but I
> have to say that I loved the Angelonia (first time I've grown them) and
> they've lasted through heat and mugginess and now chilly nights, along with
> lantana, snaps, osteospermum, and geraniums.
>         As for perennials, the climbing perennial sweet pea lathyrus has
> been especially long lasting, along with Japanese anemones, dwarf anchusa,
> althea zebrina, asclepias bloodflower (loaded with monarchs), trumpet vine,
> coreopsis, rudbeckia, toad lilies, spiderworts, kirengoshoma, butterfly
> bushes, boltonia, and scabiosa.
>         Now's a good time to do some clean up and preparation for when the
> overly ambitious (yet again) bulb order arrives! And I've already sent for
> my Heronswood catalogue for next spring to get me through the winter ...
>         What's in bloom in other zones now?
>
> Susan and David in Urbana, IL
>
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