Dad’s Visit

I’m still planning on posting about the Native Plant Conference, but my dad arrived last Thursday for a nice visit. He is a big fan of my blog, and within a few hours he said, “You should show people what still looks good this late in the year. I think they would be interested.” As I have gotten older, my dad has gotten smarter. I just turned 50, and dad just turned 91. He is a fricken genius. They were predicting frost the night dad arrived, but luckily it didn’t hit us, so I had time to take pictures of him in the garden with some of his favorite late season plants.

Dad really liked this coleus ‘Nuclear Fusion’. Dad has excellent taste. He’s my favorite coleus. I picked a little bouquet, and when they get roots I’ll pot them up, keep them as houseplants all winter and return them to the garden next spring. I plant them at the end of April; by the end of May they have filled in nicely, and they look spectacular until frost. I’m also very pleased with the perennial speckled wandering jew (Tinantia pringlei coll.) in the bottom of the picture. He came this spring and bloomed most of the summer. The only problem is the bunny likes him too.  I hope I’m as good looking and healthy when I’m 91!! I posted a picture of this pineapple sage a few blogs back, but I didn’t get a chance to tell you about him. Because of his name, he arrived many years ago as part of an herb garden mothers day gift. It’s OK that he’s not really an herb; when you are this good looking, it’s all you need. All this bloom power comes from just 2 plants. I don’t think they would survive the winter anywhere else in the garden, but this area is near a little corner in the house so they have walls both North and West. They have a very long season of bloom and are worth growing as annuals.

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Dad was also impressed with this great little annual blue fan flower that hasn’t missed a beat since April. This was my first year with Scaevola ‘Diamond’, and I’m definetly inviting him back next year.