Gorgeous stuff in your garden and beautiful pictures! Some of the ones above are new to my garden and still small (country mums, thrialis and coral vine) and I'm looking very forward to next year's display. Hopefully, there will be a display, because as you said, we win some and we lose some. I did see my first monarchs today and was very excited.

And now that I re-read your comment about your coral vine being at the top of the trees; I'm a little concerned about where I put mine :)

The red coral vine blooms mostly at the top of the trees in back because of the shady location where it's planted in. It doesn't find light at lower elevations. The pink coral vines in other parts of the yard have grown to the top of trees also, but flower all the way up and down since they have sun.

Coral vines are my favorite vines. They die to the ground in winter, but are 'easy as pie' to pull down and clean up.

Wow everything looks great roselee! I've heard of thryallis but I didn't know they grew that large? Hopefully next year your phlox will do much better? I have two coral vines that are two years old, but they haven't bloomed. They get full sun and water every once in awhile but no blooms. :-(

Wow -- looks like it's growing as a mounding ground cover, perhaps growing over scrub brush in that sunny beach location. Now that's an idea! Thank you for the photo.

Blackwillow, I didn't know Thryallis would grow that large either.

Everything looks amazing, Ragna! I really like those country mums. and the coral vine. I started some coral vine from seed this year and I'm still trying to figure out where to plant them in the yard. Coral vine seeds are viable for a long time as the ones I planted were almost 10 years old and I had 75% germination rate yet!

@roselee Yes indeed. They were growing on top of scrub brush.

Gator, I'm glad to learn that the red form is evidently a natural growing color and not a 'man made' improvement on the pink one. Thank you for another photo. What a beautiful sky as well!

Something else I want to show is the flowers of Abelia "Canyon Creek'. These blooms are past their prime, but you can see the flowers form in larger panicles than in the old fashioned Abelia that my grandmother grew ...

What I find even more desirable is the long lasting pink shaded seed ball which prolongs the beauty of the flowering bush, and can also be used in dried arrangements. ...

Incidentally, I've seen 'Canyon Creek' growing to over six ft tall in 'Plant Maven' Kathy's garden. That's how I came to know of it. I have three plants. They grow best with some afternoon shade.

I *need* that purple bougainvillea! It's gorgeous!

My thoughts, exactly, Lynn Marie..................that was my favorite shot. Not to take away from the rest of the beauty though. My Abelia has bloomed all summer, Ragna, and I love it. I still have it in a container as it seems happy in just morning sun, so that is where it will stay.

All beautiful. Geez, I want to go to Baha after a hurricane.

Phlox are hit or miss for me so I don’t bother as prefer more predictable behavior.

Roselee, you just reminded me I used to have that CG mum somewhere...

i haven’t learned to deal with Abelia, but sure do like the colorful foliage on some.

thyrallis monster, must be the biggest one I’ve seen

The Abelia is gorgeous. Adding to my wish list. :)

Ragna, did you add pavers around the thyrallis? It looks great!

Omar

Omar, yes, Bob added those pavers this year around the back half of the center bed because Alfie and Sport had worn a path playing chase ... ! And it eliminates one more swipe for the lawn mower. He'll do anything cut back on grass mowing.

As it is there is no grass in the front yard and the back yard takes him all of about three minutes to mow. Having the pavers and steel borders to run the lawn mower over keeps the trimming chore down to about once every 5 or 6 weeks.

I love that Abelia too! One of my office locations has this grown in the foundation gardens, it's so pretty!

I have lost my lime green talinum seeds. Great excuse to clean this office top to bottom to find them. I just love that plant and it grows well in the shade.

I got some CG mums from the spring swap, lindabuchanan I think. They haven't bloomed yet, but look nice and healthy, untouched by the roving deer.

Pam, I can send seed. Message me with your address.

I love coral vine. I have the pink and white. The red must really be georgous.

Your First Lady phlox is such a beautiful color.

Bought this on impulse, an orange boogie. Will have to overwinter.

Thanks for the name on the talinum (OP's first post). My mom has that plant but I never learned the name of it. It reseeds quite easily so I don't think we've ever had to manually seed every year for it. (Well at least I always thought it was reseeding but reading that link, it seems to survive by the root and regrow next year).

Purslane, my first Talinums were volunteers from who knows where and I had no idea what it was. Someone had to ID it for me.

I've found out since that Talinums are champion reseeders and also return from the roots. But it's been my experience that the lime green one pictured above is better behaved and does not reseed nearly as much as the dark green leafed one.

Bossy, your new bougie is a beautiful color!