The Autumn Clematis are beginning to bloom. They are so fragrant and bloom heavily such they look like snow! The fragrant is so strong that the scent drifts up to 20 feet with a breeze!
After the blooms, fluffy seed heads form which can last all winter. They can be weedy as the seeds readily germinate all over the garden.
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Hurricane Lilies are the first sign of Fall. Lycoris are also called Surprise Lilies because their flowers seem to pop up overnight!
The leaves come up in the Fall, survive through Spring than die in early Summer, and in August the flowers pop up!
Lycoris radiata below.
There are several species and hybrids which range from red, to yellow, to pink, and a few with shades between, along with white.
Lycoris squamigera below.
They seem to be everywhere in gardens along the coast of North Carolina. I have had difficulty getting them established in my garden here in the Piedmont. I will continue to any a few bulbs every year in the hope I will some day have a grand colony here in Raleigh!
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High humidity is a given in the Lower South. We always say: “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity!”.
As a gardener it’s a good thing!
Tomatoes and cucumbers grow very large although they stop blooming when the nights are too hot in midsummer!
Vegetables seem to grow larger than normal. Banana chilies:
Insects are everywhere!
Bumble bee:
Summer vegetables reproduce in overdrive to the point that you wonder if birth control is an option?
Zucchini:
The humidity helps tropical plants to mature faster!
Bananas:
Some perennials reproduce to the point of becoming weedy!
Day lilies:
And did I mention azaleas in the Spring?
And hydrangeas in early Summer?
And Oakleaf hydrangeas
And I could go on and on…
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Arthur in the Garden! 