Welcome to Backyard Bloggers’ Bloom Day for October 2024.

Right here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a backyard in central Indiana, October has quite a lot of blooms, although there are few it may actually name its personal.

August owns among the flowers, like these hardy begonias, which have been bloom for a number of months.

Different flowers confirmed up in September, together with asters and Japanese anemones.

Nonetheless others belong to summer season and are nonetheless going robust together with zinnias, marigolds, Verbena bonarinsis, and nasturtiums. There are additionally alyssum crops nonetheless blooming, however I consider them as spring flowers that paused for summer season and are getting going once more now that it’s cooler. Identical with snapdragons, which have proven new life as the times have shortened.

The one flower that I feel actually is an October flower is the autumn crocus, Crocus speciosus, which is blooming now in a number of areas of the backyard. I’ve put it within the middle of this collage of images of flowers blooming all through the backyard now.

This collage doesn’t function each flower in my backyard proper now… lacking are Geranium ‘Rozanne’, pelargoniums, snapdragons, annual salvias, butterfly bushes, and gaura, to call a couple of. However from the highest left round, we have now mums, violas, pansies, Zinnia angustifolia, signet marigolds, annual verbena, zinnias, nasturtiums, extra mums, Japanese anemones, dianthus, and asters.

I’m fairly blissful to have all these blooms, contemplating how dry it has been. There’s a tiny probability we might get a bathe tonight, after which the skies ought to clear up simply in time for a low temperature on Wednesday of 33 levels Fahrenheit. Meaning we might get our first frost of the season mid-week. However most of those flowers gained’t thoughts. They ‘ll preserve going a bit longer, and I’ll do my greatest to maintain having fun with them!

And that’s what’s blooming in my backyard in mid-October. What’s blooming in your backyard as we strategy what’s for many people the tip of the rising season?

Take part for Backyard Bloggers’ Bloom Day and present us. It’s simple to take part. Simply publish about your blooms in your weblog, or some social media website, after which come again right here and depart a hyperlink to inform us how one can get to your publish, and remark to inform us what you’ve blooming.

“We will have flowers almost each month of they 12 months.” – Elizabeth Lawrence