September week 3

This week I went to take a look at a new project at Yorktown Beach and spent a pleasant afternoon walking along the beach, admiring all the plantings. Yorktown has a nice selection of natives mixed with ornamentals. Native plants included:

Sweetbay magnolia seeds ripening,

asters,

a few remaing coreopsis blooms,

big patches of switchgrass,

river oats (very invasive - not reccomended for the home garden!),

and goldenrod.
Ornamentals included dried hydrangea blooms,
russian sage,

rugosa rose,

and begonias (where would I be without them?).

If you were out in the countryside this week, you might have stumbled across horsenettle,

crow poison,

perennial saltmarsh aster,

and gerardia.

Back home in the burg, a couple of landscape workhorses were still making a show; abelia

and daylilies.

Next to them, burning bush was just starting its show.

You can see more of my September week 3 pictures here.