L Clark,

Yes. These are "Alabama Sunset" coleus.

This is my first time posting photos! Did it work?

Pictured here: David Austin roses 'Darcey Bussell' and 'Lady of Shalott,' Kordes rose 'Quicksilver,' dahlia 'Thomas Edison,' and another I can't remember, and a couple cosmos.

We had a really dry summer and my new David Austin roses happened to be planted in wetter spots in the garden so they did really well. I'm trying not to shovel prune my third-year Kordes roses that are unfortunately in a drier spot. I need to dump a bunch more compost and mulch there and see what they do next year.

Summercloud, They worked and we get to see your beautiful flowers! Thanks for posting them.

Lovely flowers, Summercloud 🙂

Here's a plonk from today of Rogue Royal and Gabriel Oak

And here's a mixed bouquet

Fennel seed heads, aster and hydrangea as filler. Day Dreamer dahlia, Madame Anisette, Claire Austin, Lady Emma Hamilton and Polka.

librarian_gardner_8b_pnw Those are perfect bouquets, so artistic like a piece of artwork. I enjoy your pics. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks, Straw. I don't always have the time to make artistic ones which is why I like sharing the plonks, too. Roses are just so beautiful however it is that they go in a vase!

I'm really glad mmmm12CO started this thread. I've been enjoying everyone's gorgeous blooms!

Upper left is Versigny (will order again from Roses Unlimited since it's small & can be grown in a pot). Middle orange is Lady of Shalott. Right pink is Comte de Chambord (hardest rose to root), lowest right is W.S. 2000 (rooted a bunch this year).

Below are good fall bloomers: white Bolero and Dee-lish (dark pink), also blue Poseidon. Lowest left is Yves Piaget seedling (100% thornless, smells like red wine). After 12 years of failure, I finally succeeded in rooting Yves Piaget seedling this year.

Lowest dark red are Munstead Wood, best booms are in Sept & Oct. MIddle white is Mary Magdalene (amazing frankincense), upper red is The Dark Lady (nice old rose scent). Mary is 10 times harder to root than The Dark Lady, but both are very drought-tolerant as own-root.

Center yellow is Well-Being (nice scent like Jude), middle pink is Parfume de Paris (small bloom but nice honeysuckle scent). Left beige is Princess Charles de Monaco (less petals in dry weather). Right Gaudy yellow is Golden Fairy Tale (nice peppermint scent), but bush is huge & very thorny.

Below is Sept. 28 bouquet with The Dark Lady, always the largest blooms at 4" across. Light pinks are Sonia Rykiel (scent is just as good as Evelyn and Nahema). Yellow is Well-Being which prefers alkaline clay & alkaline tap water with dark-green leaves.

Sweet Mademoiselle (left) and Evelyn (right) both give a good fall flush. Lowest red is W.S. 2000:

Moonlight Romantica (yellow below) and red Firefighter both last long in the vase, up to 5 day. Moonlight Romantica has a better-quality scent than Firefighter (stronger, but too fruity):

Strawchicago, your colors are fantastic! I wish I had all your roses, especially Moonlight Romantica and W.S. 2000.

Straw, you have influenced many of my purchases over the past two years. Your WS 2000, Sweet Mademoiselle and Well Being looks especially beautiful this time of year.

I'm late to the party as it's October now but I hadn't made many arrangements lately. Here's one I made this morning, though.

That's so beautiful, Magpie! I love the purple and apricot colors together. Is the rose Moonlight in Paris?

Thank you! Yes it is :) it's got nice coloring this time of year. Fillers are agastache, baptisia, sweet pea, basil.

Gorgeous Magpie! My roses are not looking very fresh due to the cold temps. I may try and cut a few that are just starting to open to allow them to open in the house but I can tell it is the end of the season and everything is winding down.

@mmmm12COzone5 Oh yeah, I MIGHT get one more arrangement with roses but this could well be the last one. Because of the shortening days plus the sun's angle has changed, my yard is suddenly a lot less sunny and things have been winding down for a little bit now.

Librarian - incredible bouquets! Your RR and GO bouquet is sumptuous! I am in awe of how beautiful those blooms are! And your mixed bouquet is really, really well done. I would never have thought of putting fennel seed into your arrangement...but it works. They look better than a professional bouquet...like Straw said...a work of art!

Straw - as usual, your The Dark Lady draws my eye and delights me. :) I love the dark fall color of Sweet Mademoiselle. The gaudy yellow of GFT makes me want one. :) :) My favorite bouquets are the first one and the 3rd one...wonderful, wonderful!!

Magpie - the dramatic purples really look nice against the softer pinks...beautiful bouquet!!

Anyone still getting some fall blooms?

I haven't been in my garden as much as I'd like because we're getting a lot of wildfire smoke (to unhealthy and hazardous levels), but I did manage to get outside to cut some blooms as a thank you to our daycare provider.

What a LOVELY thank you!! Who wouldn't love those beautiful blooms? !! That's too bad about the smoke. Hopefully the fires will be contained soon.

Librarian_gardner, sorry to hear about your wildfire smoke. We get that alot and it ruins the ability to be outside. This year we've been lucky.

Your arrangements are beautiful!!!

I actually have a surprising number of blooms but haven't been cutting any for the house. I did take some photos yesterday of a couple of bushes.

Calico Gal is having a flush. I'm leaving the spent roses on the bush instead of deadheading to get the roses ready for winter.

Here are Sally Holmes and Lady in Red.

Love Song:

The Fairy:

I'll probably go take some pics of the other roses today because we are getting close to freezing at night so this is going to be it for the season.

Thanks, Carol and mmmm.

We're supposed to finally get significant rain starting on Friday, so that should help with the fires. We got a little rain in September but then it's been dry and sunny (well sunny above the smoke) since then .

Mmmm what beautiful fall flushes, especially Calico Gal!

Mmm, I'm surprised you still have so many rose blooms. Mine are tired for the season. I wonder if your garden is slightly warmer from the rocks or just your location, I've noticed frost damage on some of my plants the last few days and that telltale glimmer of ice crystals on the deck railing in the early morning.

Librarian, I also love to give bouquets as thank you's. And I also clean out glass jars from groceries of often to use as vases, and I don't worry about giving them away with bouquets.

Magpie, I think it is our location. Many of my neighbors have more blooms than I do. We haven't had a freeze yet. Here are some more pics:

Dick Koster

Pretty Lady Rose

Fred Loads has been loads of fun. It is now 10 ft tall so I am mostly looking up at blooms. It regularly blooms bright orange at the tips of the long canes. It is my tallest rose and a novelty for me to get to look up at roses. It was the last rose we put in. Planted as a band 7/20. So it has done amazingly well.

Everything else has a smattering of blooms. So the bed looks like this:

Almost forgot Winnipeg Parks for L.Clark since he has one also.

@librarian_gardner_8b_pnw We must live relatively close (I live in Westfir and commute to Eugene for work). Just wanted to pop in and say your bouquets are stunning! Wow!

Ah, thanks, Meg!

Oh gosh, you must have been inundated with this smoke, too, especially being so close to Oakridge. You're right, we are close!

Oh gosh, you must have been inundated with this smoke, too, especially being so close to Oakridge. You're right, we are close!I'm in the Eugene/Springfield area. Fingers crossed for rain this weekend!

Magpie, the natural peanut butter jars are my favorite for bouquets. Cleaned up they look just like glass vases. I really like the flowering basil in your arrangement.

Mmmm, your garden is looking lovely. I always savor these late blooms, never knowing when the cold rain will make them too mushy or the frost will hit.

Koko loco, Princess Charlene of Monaco, some salvia and allium blooms

Librarian, thank you. The basil outlasted all the other flowers in the arrangement.

mmmm - amazing Calico Gal...so many blooms! Your roses are doing so well! :) :) I'm also charmed by your Dick Koster and Pretty Lady Rose!

Meredith - GASP!!!! What a glorious bouquet...I love how the salvias and allium are in the same color tones as the roses!! Your Koko Loco is magical!!! :)

Meredith, what a lovely arrangement. I agree, your Koko Loco is magical.

Meredith, Gorgeous!!! You have a talent for arranging flowers.

A sweet neighbor gave us a bucket of garden grapes so I returned her bucket with flowers 😁

I'm trying to enjoy these fall blooms as much as possible. The rains returned (yay!) so everything will be a wet cold mush soon and then the frost is just around the corner.

Librarian gardener, those colors are gorgeous!

Rosecanadian, libarian_gardener_8b_pnw, mmmm12COzone5; thank you!

So many beautiful arrangements! they are really inspiring. I especially like librarian’s. Beautiful rich colors yet in great harmony.

Not sure whether this could be considered as an arrangement: Julia child towered by an Angel’s Trumpet

@mmmm12COzone5 Your lady in red is grown as a bush? I thought it was a climbing rose. And your Love Song is very lovely!

Rosegeek, you are clearly a professional flower arranger for historic mansions. Your arrangement is stunning!

forever_a_newbie, yes my Lady in Red grows as a bush. We gave it two trellises when we planted it, thinking it would climb. It never does even though we try and pin it up. It also isn't cane hardy here in Colorado. So every year it is a mass of dead canes. Your Julie Child is pretty! I really like the color.

Rosegeek, what a beautiful arrangement! A great mix of colorful roses and other flowers.

forever_a_newbie, nice companion planting! I love it when plants compliment each other in the garden. Thanks for the compliment on my flowers

@librarian_gardner_8b_pnw Thank you!

Librarian - you've grown such beautiful flowers!! What a lovely rainbow of colors!! :) :)

Rosegeek - I love what mmmm said about you!! Exactly!! :) :) Such a wonderful arrangement!

Forever_a_Newbie - I love those Angel's Trumpet flowers!! So cool!

Thank you @rosecanadian!

Wowzer, beautiful !!

Woke up to most of the garden looking like mush, as we got our first good freeze last night. This was all I could salvage, the last arrangement for the year. The rose is Le Petit Prince.

Magpie - oooh!!! Gorgeous!!! Are they fragrant?

What a beautiful last arrangement. LPP is quite a gorgeous lavender rose!

Thank you :) Carol, LPP is fragrant, and I happen to think the scent is very nice and unique, definitely not typical "rose" fragrance. It's powdery and lemony and fresh smelling. Oh, and the bees like it!

Every time. I make a bouquet I th njnj think. It's the last one. (Is Houzz inserting nonsense words it won't delete for anythinganyone else?)

Thank goodness it's raining for almost a week and the wifewildfire smoke. Is gone. But it's so cold and wet heatheathuh that most rose varieties are falling prey to botrytis. But I got enough flowers to put together at least oneoneore more nice arrangement.

The pink rose is Sweet Delight from Palatine (RPRP
From NIRP and it's wonderful and incredibly fragrancefragrant

Meg, those are beautiful! I especially like thetheall thethe all the other foliage and flowers and berries you mixed in with the roses.

Magpie - oh, it sounds wonderful!!! :) :) Maybe I'll try it again. Mine died the same year I got it...that was the rose year from hell. LOL

Librarian - I'm getting a chuckle out of reading the mess that Houzz makes of your typing. Don't let it bother you...we can still make out what you're saying. And it's kind of cute. :) Your bouquet is gorgeous!!! I know!!! Isn't Sweet Delight a great rose?!! The fragrance is ALWAYS there...and strong and fabulous!!! It looks great in your bouquet!

Meg I love orange and purple. Your bouquet is lovely!! What are the white berries? We have a Christmas decoration that looks exactly like that and we have no idea what it is. :)

For some reason I can't comment on here through my phone, it deletes every word that I type as soon as I hit the space bar to type the next word. Strange. Thank you, @librarian_gardner_8b_pnw, I can't wait until my roses are big enough to make gorgeous bouquets like yours! @rosecanadian Thank you, I love orange and purple/blue together too. The white berries are called Snowberries, they grow wild on the riverbank behind my house in Oregon.