Today's Flowers: September Survivors

Only the tough are surviving at my house with continuing hot days and less rain.

My lantana is usually one of the tough flowers in my garden. The butterflies and hummingbirds like lantana which is one of the reasons I grow it. I also like the way the leaves smell like oranges.

One of my favorite plants which don't start blooming until the end of summer are the fairy asters.

I have let them volunteer all over the garden. I do that with many plants I start from seed that then self seed and crop up in new spots.

The butterflies and moths like the fairy asters. I like the way they form large masses that from a distance almost look like snow.

I have a lot of morning glories which I enjoy although some of them are growing on my roses and need to be pulled up.

The rose of sharon (hibiscus) is another tough plant I let volunteer all over the place.

Although they form bushes where they have enough room, I let them come up in places they don't have room to form shrubs.

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