September is the time for yellow daisies at Stone Mountain, Panola Mountain and Arabia Mountain. We didn't miss them! (We were gone for two weeks.) These photos were taken at Arabia Mountain this past Saturday on Sept. 24th. The daisies were lovely and the fragrance is heavenly. If only I could bottle it, I could make millions!
The yellow daisies are wildflowers and it is incredible that they are blooming this year in this hot dry weather. The yellow daisy is not only beautiful but one very tough flower!
Not forgetting the bright purple berries on the beautyberry! The beautyberry is also a native plant. We like to watch the cardinals eat these purple berries!
My question for you: do you have native plants in your area that you also love this time of year?
There is a prairie grass that grows high. When the seeds ripen and shed there is a beautiful white fluffy head left on the stalks. I have no idea what it is but I love it. I also like the silver maples that look like trees full of aluminum foil leaves this time of year.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading that the USA had many native grasses, many of them so high that you could not see over them, even while on horseback! The silver maples sound pretty.
DeleteGuess what! The Braves are playing the Tigers for their last 3 games! I know you love your Tigers!
Wonderful pictures, Kay - you know you "get" me with these every time!
ReplyDeleteI really like looking at the gardens, fields and woods here in south Germany at this time of year, but I am not sure whether all of what I am looking at (and liking) are native to this area. For instance, there are the many many vineyards, the orchards with their (mostly) apple trees, walnut and horse chestnut trees. Then the flowers - dahlia, chrysanthemum, aster to name but a few. They all come together to create this particularly beautiful set of late summer/early autumn colours.
You should know the Yellow Daisies by now!!
DeleteI love the sound of the many, many vineyards! I have a very strong preference for German white wine, did you know? Hope you are enjoying a nice time of year, and that everything is OK! (Ha!)
So glad you didn't miss the yellow daisies, nor the orange butterfly. This time of year I love the beautiful, common, fall flowers - goldenrod, iron weed, and frost asters. Glorious colors.In my garden I love the fall hydrangeas as they slowly change color from white to soft greens and browns.
ReplyDeleteYes! I also love the hydrangeas, the muted tones are lovely! The weather is finally getting a bit cooler here and it is such a welcome relief.
DeleteMuch of the color here along the county roads comes from ragweed and goldenrod this time of year. Nature does have a way of providing some beautiful color in fall. Glad you got to see the daisies.
ReplyDeleteThose daisies are just gorgeous, but not a lot of people pay much attention to them. The fact that they grow in very little soil on top of solid rock should make folks notice them, not forgetting that they are beautiful flowers to begin with!! Oh well, I keep trying to make people appreciate them.
DeleteThe crepe myrtles bloom here and i love them so!
ReplyDeleteOur crepe myrtles have bloomed out now but they were very pretty while in bloom.
DeleteThose daisies are beautiful. I'm glad you were back in time to see them. It's a shame you can't bottle that scent!
ReplyDeleteIt is a very light scent, not heavy at all and such a sweet fragrance, but not overly so. Can you tell I love these yellow daisies?
DeleteOf course ours is the same as yours, but these daisies are especially pretty. Love the one with the butterfly.
ReplyDeleteThe yellow daisies are only supposed to grow within a 60 mile radius of Stone Mountain. I tried to get more photos of the butterflies on the flowers but they were too darn quick!
DeleteI love the pictures of the yellow daisies ... wish I could smell their scent ... but it must be wonderful.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
Thanks for your comment, Jan! And the yellow daisies are just wonderful! Do you see the photo on the side of my blog where I am in with the bluebells in England? They also have a fragrance to die for!They remind me of those, not that they smell the same, but it is a light fragrance that you just wish you could keep with you forever!
DeleteBeautiful daisies and berries! This time of year in England the hedgerows and woods are full of blackberries and elderberries. The orchard fruits are ripening - apples pears and damsons. A time full of abundance!
ReplyDeleteI was in England two weeks ago and there were still beautiful late blooming flowers. Apples and pears were heavy on the trees next to my in-laws garden. I miss England when I am not there!!
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DeleteNature's gift to you. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAmalia
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Thank you, Amalia! It is a gift and it is free for anyone who sees! x
DeleteSuper pics!
ReplyDeleteThanks! You should know our Yellow Daisies by now! :-)
DeleteAbsolutely beautiful, Kay! I am on Monarch watch here....only a couple more weeks!!! Yay!
ReplyDeleteHey Audrey! So lovely to see your smiling face along with your comment!
DeleteI hope to see some Monarchs very soon also, fingers crossed!
How gorgeous are those daisies, and a special bonus that they have a scent. Ours don't tend to be perfumed. Lovely to see them.
ReplyDeleteWe have lots of yellow flowers here too, but I must say, only the yellow daisy has a noticeable fragrance. Another reason to love it! (As if I needed another.) xx
DeleteThese are pretty daisies! They actually stand out from the dull color of the ground and they make the place lovelier too despite the hot environment!
ReplyDeleteHello Ida JT! Thanks for your comment, I think you are new to my blog. Welcome!
DeleteGuess what! The yellow daisies grow in very little soil on top of ROCK (it might look like a dull color of ground, but it is solid ROCK!!) Look at the photo at the bottom of this blog of Stone Mountain, and you that might show you the rock more clearly.
And the rock IS very hot!! :-)
What a beautiful fall scenery you already have where you are in Georgia. It still feels much too summery here... Those yellow daisies look wonderful! They remind me of the abundant jerusalem artichokes blooming everywhere in New Mexico in the fall. And don't you love the beautyberries? We have three bushes in our garden and every year I marvel at the color of the berries!! xoxo Silke
ReplyDeleteOH trust me, Silke, it is HOT here too! The colors might look autumnal, but the yellow daisies bloom late August and early September at Stone Mountain and just a bit later at Arabia Mountain and Panola Mountain.
DeleteAnd the beauty berries! I just saw a female red breasted grosbeak on the beauty berry today, so exciting!
Lovely to see your comment here, Silke! :-)
How nice that they are scented! This time of year in England, there are not too many showy flowers, although there are always pretty little small ones.
ReplyDeleteBy the way did you ever go into Eastbourne museum and mention me? Someone there contacted me and said that an American lady came in and talked to them about me. I'm wondering now!!!
Yes, I did! It was the Redoubt Museum in Eastbourne and they had a small display about Lewis Carroll, including the desk he used while in Eastbourne! They also sold quite a few books about him in the gift shop and I told them that they needed to have your book to sell there! You know I love your book!
DeleteWell for the last seven (yes seven!!) days we've had sunny skies too. It's good to see you up the mountain as always but this time I realised that I could do it too with my new knee. Well I could if I could go to North America.
ReplyDeleteYou will have to take photos of yourself walking in your area and you could point to your new knee with a big smile! Wish you could walk over our mountains with us, you would like them, I am sure and OF COURSE, you would be enthralled by my scintillating conversation. Ha, ha.
DeleteLovely, Kay! Right now I'm loving all the late-blooming, fragrant roses in Victoria!
ReplyDeleteRoses! The roses were also blooming in England and they were lovely!
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