What's looking good in September 2014

A couple of gladioli




Potentilla nepalensis 'Helen Jane'


Laurentia




Euonymus red cascade in full autumn colour


Still plenty of interest in the garden

 

That seems very late Nigel?

 

Wow! That last picture is amazing HsuH!

 

Albuca humilis is blooming again....................




Salvia urica continues to "Wow" me.................


Salvia transylvanica has a very long blooming season (and is fully hardy)........................


Fuchsia microphylla..................


And Solanum lancifolium..................

 

Dahlias:


Acapulco


Bishop of Llandaff


Need to look at the label!!


Salvia Oxford Blue


Iris English Cottage - flowering in September


An Urn

 

Sunflowers, the weather is being very kind to them at the moment and they are branching a lot more than in other years. I was supposed to be picking a bunch, but spent a relaxing 10 - 15 mins just watching the bees and flies on them. All grown through Mypex this year.



Should get a bumper crop of seeds for sowing over the next few years, and some for the hens.

 

Odd!

 

I'd like to say, and for you to think!, that it was because of all the TLC it got

 

Ballcocks!!

 

That would imply automatic watering,surely? They certainly didn't get any of that

 

Tricyrtis hirta "White Towers" which is more leaning than towering.................


Tricyrtis "Hototogisu".....................


Tricyrtis "Taipei Silk" which is in heavier shade than the other one and has a noticeably different colour.................


Tricyrtis hirta "Tojen"......................


And the common form of Tricyrtis hirta....................


Phygelius capensis "Funfare Wine"......................


Finally, Tradescantia purpurea.................

 

oooh -I like the colour of that one @longk
Jenny

 

Cracking ain't!

 

Are you rooting cuttings by any chance?
Jenny

 

A few quick shots around my garden this evening.

I cleared a load of tired, woody lavender from this bed last winter. I didn't replant it, nature took its course and the bed has now filled with self seeded Erigeron, new lavender seedlings and one stray lobelia.



The herbaceous border is past its best now, but the Rudbeckias and Alyssum are keeping it going for now.



A good crop of self seeded sunflowers this year.



Sunflower with a stray runner bean climbing up it.



Goldenrod flower and Guelder rose berries making a nice colour combination.



Soon won't be room to sit here.