Summer Wildflowers

A final look back at summer before diving into fall...

As mentioned several times, all gardens were terribly neglected, but the wildflower garden especially performed beautifully - albeit jungle-like - with a lovely display of late summer flowering.

The hibiscus, once again, in spite of being continually mauled by insects, put out beautiful blooms...

An especially lovely picture when the Black-eyed Susans join them!

Black-eyed Susans and Daylilies playing nicely together...

And then this crazy guy shot up out of nowhere! Must have been 4 feet tall! A little out of place, but lovely nonetheless! 

Probably would be lovelier without all the weeds, but then it clearly wouldn't be my accidental-and-also-too-busy-renovating-to-touch-it garden!

And remember that when I do weed, I discriminate terribly based on appearance: these cute little daisy-like flowering weeds are allowed to stay (I do yank out quite a few, but leave ones that are nicely accenting other flowering).

And my deck pots provided nice color with a mixture of seedlings I'd started (the gorgeous pink four 'o clocks and the tall, white zinnia), herbs, weeds I left in place, and a few annuals I grabbed from the nursery. 
(Obviously I missed my spring railing cleaning 😬)

As usual, I did a terrible job keeping them watered, especially here at the end where we haven't had rain for 3 weeks.

So I'm telling you, my new favorite plant is begonias! I always thought of them as shade, and I have gotten them for my shade garden, but they must have bred a new variety that does full sun because these things are beasts!

Plants on the hot, 2nd story deck get scorched; especially the midget pot I put on the table that's too small to hold much water and so looks real sad each year no matter how much I water it.

Not this year with begonias!

Other much larger pots I've neglected to water:

Begonias I've neglected to water:

And they've stayed blooming like that since I bought them in May!

Like I have a little begonia fairy who secretly waters them!

So there we are. The end of another season.

Time for a little fall clean-up (though  this  notified me not to do too much so I help the critters!)
and we call it a wrap!