Whats Looking Good September

Nemesia - oh .... that gorgeous vanilla scent






Cotoneaster horizontalis - awash with berries this year






Helenium 'Mardi Gras' - been flowering strongly since June






Kniphofia 'Mango Popsicle' - keeps coming






Kniphofia 'Banana Popsicle' - just the one flower this year - but one more than last year!






Dahlia 'Sincerity' - big blooms and they keep coming






Cosmos

 

I've grown my biggest sunflowers ever this year. They are towering above me.


Sedum and aster



Echinacea and aster



Rose campion


Sweet Pea


Toad Lily


Dahlia "wishes and dreams" still going strong


Little mini lupins


Pyracantha berries

 

Mina lobata making a very late start, but looking good next to alstroemeria Indian Summer which has not stopped flowering

 

For me, the berries of pyracanthas steal the show in Autumn. I have 2 of them. The berries of the first one ("golden charmer") have already matured.



I have quite a few sedums / hylotelephium. This is "Cherry Truffle".



The roses, while definitely not at their peak, are still putting on a show.

(Penelope Lively, The Country Parson, Emily Bronte, Silas Marner)

 

I planted cyclamen corms last year - a mixture of spring and autumn ones. Nothing came up in the spring so I wrote them off and forgot about them. Now I've been surprised by 3 separate little clumps of autumn ones. I hope they spread like yours!

Two plants of Leycesteria have popped up spontaneously in my back garden - presumably bird sown. They grow at a good speed, so I'm going to move them to a spot where they'll screen the ugly water butt.

I shall be interested to see what you choose for your shade as I have plenty of that. I bought 3 Ajuga reptans for my slope this week.

 

There's a few Leycesterias in my neighbourhood, but it's not a very popular plant for some reason. I just don't have room for one anywhere in this wee garden.

I love cyclamen, and mine [hederifoliums] are gradually spreading around, but I've been thinking of getting some coums for spring. I just don't like pale pink which tends to be the dominant colour available, but I found a nursery that does a dark one, so I could be tempted with that along with the whites. My view from the back of the house is south east, so the back border, as well as other parts, are shady, and it's always nice to have something to brighten things in late winter until the daffs etc come through. The dark ones could be nearer the house where I have sibirica and ensata Irises, and they'd get shade through summer there.

 

Leycesteria (aka Pheasant Berry) grow rapidly and self seed like mad.

 

I'm counting on the rapid growth, and self seeding doesn't worry me too much because I'm already constantly pulling up small teasel, dock, hazel and rowan - it will be nice to have a bit more variety!

 

Cotoneaster Berried Treasure, yet to be discovered by the birds!



Miscanthus flowers reaching their fluffy stage.



Cheeky Solanum laxum album getting closer to the sun amongst Griselinia.



Autumn container.

 

Fasicularia bicolor


Amaryllis belladonna


Iochroma cyaneum


Berkheya purpurea still in the greenhouse, blame the gardener for not planting them out. Leaves are from a basil.


Colquhonia coccinea vestita


Zauschneria californica "Western Hills"


Acanthus sennii

 

The Echinacea start now to go over, but there is a new flower here and there.



The Geraniums bought last year at Waitrose may look tired, but they keep flowering.




I had moved this Astrantia in March, not knowing that the drought started. I thought it had died over the summer, but with the rain in the recent days, it bounces back.



Autumn



I had bought the Euphorbia in Spring time and the Grass on the right in August.



The Tree fern keeps giving and giving: Leave number 16.