Salvia greggii - Autumn Sage (click for detail)
Recent rains and mild temperatures have coaxed the Autumn sage into winter blooms in apparent profusion, posing here for a group photo.
Salvia greggii – Autumn Sage greets the new year
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Deadhead
Here’s a Liatris (Gayfeather) after the bloom is gone. This is in the front yard – sometime this Winter it will get cut back to the ground so it can come back in the Spring, but for now it provides an austere reminder of the seasonal changes.
Liatris mucronata - Gayfeather (Click for detail)
fruit of the silverleaf nightshade
Silverleaf Nightshade fruit (click for detail)
These little fruits are still hanging in there. Took a walk in the greenbelt behind the house and didn’t find much – nothing in bloom. These fruits are toxic, by the way. But they are more photogenic than deer scat.
Salvia regla – Mountain Sage
Salvia regla - Mountain Sage (click for larger image)
These long tubular flowers attract hummingbirds. Normally they bloom from July through October, but this was photographed here in December. It’s been an extreme year weather-wise, and a number of native plants are blooming out of season now that we’ve gotten over four inches of rain in December.
Salvia greggii winter blossom
Here’s a bloom from Autumn Sage taken the first day of Winter.
Salvia greggii - Autumn Sage (click for larger image)
Winter bud
I went out this morning and observed several buds as well as open flowers on the Autumn Sage. Although this plant has a long bloom period, it is listed as being from March through November. No freezing temperatures are predicted within the next week, so it is probably safe to say that this year’s bloom period will be extended through December.
Salvia greggii - Autumn Sage bud (click for larger image)
Viguiera stenoloba – Skeletonleaf Goldeneye
Amazed to find the odd bloom at this late date in the year. Not much else is blooming. This, the Fall Asters, and the Rosemary…
Viguiera stenoloba - Skeletonleaf Goldeneye (click for larger image)
Symphyotricum oblongifolium – Fall Aster
Same group of fall asters, taken with a macro lens. Unidentified insect is a bonus.
Symphyotricum oblongifolium - Fall Aster (click for larger image)
Ruellia humilis – low ruellia
Taken in Williamson County earlier this year.
Ruellia humilis- Low ruellia (click for larger image)
Fall Aster
Fall Asters are in bloom…
Symphyotrichum oblongifolium - Fall Aster
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