What's Looking Good In September 2013

Thread for photos of plants looking good in September 2013.

For anyone wanting to look back here are some related threads:

What's Looking Good In August 2013

and what everyone thought was looking good in:

September 2012
September 2011
September 2010
September 2009

What's Looking Good Index

 

My six year old granddaughter Ava wanted to try cantaloupes in her small garden on our property. I doubted that the season would be long enough, or warm enough, to produce decent melons. I was wrong, today we picked the first melon and there are a dozen more coming along. This time I really don't mind being wrong.

 

Lovely sized melon Hydro

 

Wow where's the Parma Ham? yum yum, well done.

 

The two Agapanthus Luly flowers are still going after nearly four weeks..


Callistemon Masotti, a dwarf variety bought half price in a sale as it had finished flowering but now has had a second flush.


Begonia Glowing Embers, started off late but now it is flowering well.


Hellenium, can't remember the cultivar.


Primula Vialii second flush.


Kniphophia Tawny King last flower.


Heuchera Marmalade, one of my favourites.


Colocasia Esculenta is still getting bigger.


Canna.


The Bees are on the Heuchera flowers all day ever day.

 

Eustoma - I bought this plant at half price since it was badly wind damaged. It does know how to thank me .

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Rhodochiton - It took a long time to germinate, then it developed very slowly, and it has only just started to flower. So long as I remember to bring it indoors before the frost arrives it should be able to flower, on my window sill, all the way through winter into next year.

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Fuchsia is still going strong


A forest of self-seeded Amaranthus

 

Interesting shaped chaps Any idea what variety they started out as?

 

Some Dahlias looking good


Dahlia Selina


Dahlia City of Rotterdam


Dahlia Acapulco


Dahlia Black Wizard


and Dahlia Bishop of Llandaff in combination with a Sedum which will soon be fit-to-bust :

 

and Bishop of Llandaff with Sambucus Black Lace behind, sorry photo does not show the contrast very well

 

Wonderful dahlias Kristen particularly like Acapulco very different
Lovely photo's and plants everyone I love September

 

A. Hypochondriacus and A. Tricolor. Though the latter was never quite as tri-coloured as I expected. The seeds were from RHS seed distribution and they don't always come true as they are open pollinated.

Ours are now taking over. The giant one in the greenhouse has been trying to escape through the roof.

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With today's hot weather we decide to open the vent and it made a bid for freedom.

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Free at last!!

 

This is the only flower head on my Hydrangea "Selma" (bought from the dying reduced counter back in January)


First berry on my Symphoricarpos doorenbosii


And its sister plant, Symphoricarpos x doorenbosii 'Mother of Pearl'



And (simply because I liked the look) a drying rosehip, masquerading as a spider, from my Rosa Rugosa

 

Crikey I've never seen anything like it HsuH its a monster lol.
Can't wait for this years RHS seed list I've had lots of lovely and different plants from their seed, I've just planted out quite a few Dactylicapnos Scandens in the wood grown last spring and a few even have flowers, they seemed to do nothing for ages then went bananas quite a job untangling them all before planting , mixed Siberian and Ensata iris are coming on a treat to

 

Lovely colour on that Hydrangea "M" and are you sure thats not a spider