Still happily blooming in gardens everywhere at the end of October.
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Cosmos
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Zinnias
Zinnias have become very popular in the last few years, and we never need an excuse for flower pictures.
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Bean Flower After the Rain
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More Corn
You will pardon old Pa Pitt if he has been getting a bit corny lately, but Zea mays is a very picturesque plant.
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Sun Shining Through a Corn Leaf
Corn in city gardens and farms is getting tall enough that we can look up at the leaves.
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More Fun with Daylilies
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Mexican Sunflower
Tithonia rotundifolia, the Mexican Sunflower, is a fine garden flower if you have some room for it: it can grow six feet high and spread just about as wide. Tall flowers in hot colors are fashionable again, but old Pa Pitt never cared for fashions in flowers. He just likes big bright annuals.
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Balsam
Balsam (Impatiens balsamina) is one of those old-fashioned garden flowers you don’t see too much anymore. Here are some fine examples from a garden in Beechview.
Camera: Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3.
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Entrance to Phipps Conservatory
The entrance to Phipps, rendered in old-postcard colors by the Two-Strip Technicolor script for the GIMP.
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Daylilies After the Rain
It had been raining all day, but in the evening there was enough of a lull for old Pa Pitt to get out and take these pictures. The daylilies are all unnamed varieties from a planting of mixed hybrid seedlings.
Camera: Canon PowerShot A590 IS.
