Whats Looking Good September

My Callicarpa bush is thick with bright purple berries. Lovely. Until the birds find them, then they are gone, in a day. As there are so many berries about this year, I might be lucky and keep them longer.

 

The local acacia dealbata have flower buds. I believe ours always had buds this time of year but didn't flower until the spring. It was killed by a very cold winter as they aren't reliably hardy here.

 

Yet another roscoea in flower

 

Eriolarynx australis now three years old from seed.


Erodium hybrid "Bishop's Form"


Arum pictum autumn flowering Arum , but still has a really bad smell like most of it's spring flowering relatives.


Euonymus alata this has actually coloured up this year due to the hot summer and some cold nights. Most years the leaves just drop off.


Selfseeded Ricinus flowering.

 

It's certainly an impressive plant @Michael Hewett , although I think the other one [Boston Ivy] is more popular here for some reason. We had it on the walls of an old building where I worked. We sometimes had birds nesting in it which was lovely. There's a garden round the corner that has something on the front walls, but I'd need to take a closer look to see if it's V. creeper or something else. It's beautiful just now. Couldn't take a pic as it would be inappropriate due to where it's growing.
I got a E. alatus earlier this year @NigelJ , as I'd got some hedging and to avoid the delivery, I got a couple of shrubs instead. I wasn't convinced it was the right shrub, as the leaves didn't seem right, but the corking bark on some stems is there. I'm hoping it does it's thing, as that's why I chose it! I've always wanted one. There's one in a garden quite near me which I always admire, but I don't see it in any other garden I pass.

 

@fairygirl
I bought it for the autumn colour and the fruit colour, unfortunately most years down here the autumns are too mild for the colour to be good and it's never had any noticable fruits. I hope your climate suits it better than mine does.

 

I had euonymus alatus in rural Nottinghamshire. It didn't colour every year even there. And it didn't fruit for me either.
I quite fancy the euonymus "koi boy" for the fruit. Around here wild spindles fruit well, so it might do ok.

 

I see spindle trees often planted on motorway banks, they seem to colour up most years, guessing the drainage in those kinds of places is pretty good along with good strong sun exposure through summer.

 

The one or other odd one.





All Hardy Geraniums are in their second flush.



The Cosmos and Gaura plants are still flowering.

 

Yes - it's colder here @NigelJ, so fingers crossed it'll colour up. There's a few leaves showing red on it now. If it doesn't play ball to my satisfaction, it can get stuck in the front garden where I won't see it so much! No room for passengers...
There are lots of Viburnums round here, the ones with pendulous foliage, and I sometimes see one ahead, and think it's a Euonymus, and then I get nearer and see that's not. They're all colouring up nicely now.
I wonder if the ones you see are colouring up due to stress rather than normal autumn colouring @pete ?

@Michael Hewett - that house round the corner does have V. creeper. It's a typical detached house with a central front door and windows either side, and the creeper covers all the available wall space. It therefore wouldn't be suitable for taking a photo unless I asked the owners, as it would be dodgy if they were in one of the front rooms! I'm always aware of that when taking a pic.

 

This is a few years old labelled cyclamen africanum (I grew from AGS seed). I think either I or donor muddled the label, because the foliage looks more like Mirabile shape . Nicely scented though.

 

I have just looked through this thread and admired all the beautiful flowers.

My garden has flowers but suffered quite a bit in the drought and heat in Dordogne, up to 40° and we had watering restrictions. We've had rain now, the grass has greened up and most plants seem to have survived. Hardly any autumn anemone flowers though, they hated the heat.

 

Late September colour.

 

Looking gorgeous @Plantminded . I like the Persica rose. I have ordered some as they were bred from desert roses.

 

I know this doesn't look much (particularly after @Plantminded pics
But this is night scented stock I planted out in late spring and it's been flowering ever since. That lovely perfume in the evening!
All the ones in containers finished months ago.