Whats Looking Good In September

Your garden doesn't look sad at all to me @Perki, it's full of life and colour. I like that big greenhouse you've got in one of the photos

 

A couple from mine

 

Very impressive @Loki.

 

Any tips re the curcuma? I’ve read up on it but real life experience is priceless

 

Amaryllis belladonna

Cyclamen africanum

Cyclamen hederifolium

 

Gorgeous amaryllis @NigelJ! A friend has kindly given me some bulbs of it that he said hadn't been flowering. Obviously going in the post has kicked them because they are now in bud! Perhaps I should post my white AB to myself because the bulb has sat there for a year and done nothing.

 

@CarolineL I find that Amaryllis belladonna flowers erratically with me. I have two clumps one at the front of the house, well drained, sun till mid morning and house wall behind; the clump with the flowers above is in a well drained raised bed, more exposed, but sun most of the day. Last year the clump at the front of the house flowered, some years no flowers at all. I gave some bulbs to a colleague a couple of years ago and they flowered in the first year then nothing till this year when he got one flower bud. Some houses down here have clumps with a lot of flowers every year. If anybody has any ideas I'd like to hear them.
I hope your white form flowers as I would like to see it.

 

My Belladona blooms every year in the Spring. They are in clay soil in a shady rockery with the tops peeking out. Love the colour of your @NigelJ.

 

Campanula 'Paul Furse'..............
Campanula 'Paul Furse' by longk48, on Flickr

Thankfully a self seeded Polemonium pauciflorum survived as the seedlings from seed that I sowed all died in the warmer weather whilst i was away.............
Polemonium pauciflorum by longk48, on Flickr

Another bloom on my Echinopsis subdenudata..............
Echinopsis subdenudata by longk48, on Flickr

 

The one I was given has just opened today, and looks more like @Victoria 's than yours @NigelJ. Victoria - I'd assume that 'shady' for you still gets plenty of warmth and sunshine compared to here. I have just prodded the 'white form' bulb. It's solid not squishy, but completely ignoring me and no foliage whatsoever. I'm going to repot it and give it a talking to.

 

Yes @CarolineL, plenty of warmth but virtually no sun. We never get frost.

 

Oh, @CarolineL, I forgot to say they flower before they leaf.

 

Nerine codora has opened with the late flowering Hosta Purple Heart behind.

 

A strange combination, bright red bracts and pale blue flowers, the garden police would never let this happen.

Thought I'd let a flowering stem on aeonium go through to the end and see what seed I get, none, but about a hundred cuttings I dont need.

 

The Fasicularia looks good @pete, quite a few bromeliads have that combo.