September in the Garden.

This post started life as an terminal of Month View and now we are so far into September , I have changed the deed and put in some more up to day of the month photos . In fact I like September ; the lighter is crisper and the colours seem richer . So although Summer has fled , let ’s celebrate September and all its wealth .

First of all I would wish to feature the Winter garden which I created this year , point the process on EOMV . Several blogger evoke annual to keep it looking interesting throughout the Summer , so this is what I did . Thank you very much for the suggestion , I have love these blossom for picking as well , as to make the Winter Garden interesting in Summer .

The easy were the ejaculate I just scattered , such asElscholzia californica , Candytuft ‘ Fairy Mix’,Linaria maroccana‘Sweeties ’ and the poppy , Papaver commutatum‘Ladybird ’ . These have all finished now and I never did show you how pretty the Ladybird Poppy is ; such a soda of long - endure gloss and I love the dividing line of the black and violent .

Papaver commutatum‘Ladybird’

Papaver commutatum‘Ladybird ’

The poppy have finish up , but the passably one-time marigolds just go on and on . I piece them all the meter , but they produce an endless provision of flowers . In the greenhouse I grewCosmos sulphureus‘Bright Lights ’ , zinnias and cleomes . This is my first twelvemonth growing zinnias , after reading so many bloggers extolling their virtues . Mine have been very slow to come into bloom , but they are lovely and I am astonished how long each flower lasts . I grew mixed colours .

The giant sunflowers are a bit of fun . My daughter holds an yearly competitor to see who can grow the tallest helianthus . There is a company and a prize is awarded to the success . I thought I would go for gravid flowers as well as acme . I have never grow these monster before and I had no idea how much staking would be involved in keep them vertical . They really take staging . My tall is 10 groundwork 6 inches , so I desire I am in with a chance of winning . My horticultural reputation hangs in the balance .

Papaver commutatum ‘Ladybird’

Papaver commutatum‘Ladybird’

I am really enjoy the dahlias growing in the wintertime garden too .

Dahlia coccinea

highlight in the front garden are the Hibiscus which Ivan Dickings gave me . Ivan used to be the very gifted chief propagator for Notcutts . I am not indisputable if he diagnose this Hibiscus . It is a gorgeous colour .

Hibiscus syriacus

I have already featured several times the hugeAlcathaea suffretescens‘Parkallee ’ on this blog . Next to it I haveClematis viticella‘Purpurea Plena Elegans ’ which will climb into it next year . This year I had to cut the clematis the right way back just when it was in full flow when we had the house paint .

xAlcalthaea suffrutescens‘Park Rondell ’

Cleome

I also havex Alcalthaea suffrutescens”Poetry ’ which is very similar .

xAllcalthaea suffrutescens ‘ Poetry ’

These two plants are still vernal and I will have to wait a while for them to be as impressive as ‘ Parkallee . ’

Cosmos sulphureus ‘Bright Lights’

I hump agapanthus and I have lots of them in various colours . Most of them have finished now , but this one growing with theFascicularia bicoloris hang on . TheFasciculariais just starting to get its bright red-faced rosette . As the season go on the leafage raise redder . The strappy farewell on the left areLibertia grandiflorawhich has lovely white flowers earlier in the Summer .

AgapanthuswithFascicularia bicolor

Nearby a large headedAgapanthuslooks full with the strappy leaves of aFucraea . On the wall isJasminum officinale‘Clotted Cream’ . New Echinacea hybrids are always a disappointment , vanishing without tincture after their first season . Good oldEchinacea purpureahybrids hang around and sow about too . These are originate near lovelyRosa‘Perle d’Or ‘ which is blooming as well as it was in June .

Zinnia

Rosa‘Perle d’Or ’

Red Hot Pokers are n’t everyone ’s cupful of tea , even though some of them come in refined lemon or green . This one is call ‘ native sulphur ’ .

Kniphofia‘Brimstone ’

Zinnia

I like the picture these pokers make with the seeded player heads of veronicastrum , a dainty thalictrum and a dark yellow-bellied solidago . Of course September is the starting time of the Michaelmas Daises . My preferent , Aster frikartii‘Monch ’ has been in flush for age and just goes on and on . Here is a mosaic of some of the other flush make the September garden special . The last blue flower is unlabeled because I can not think what it is . Any suggestions ?

59 Responses toSeptember in the Garden.

your garden is beautiful ! the last picture looks to be a lobelia of some form . maybe siphilitica

I ’m impress by how floriferous your late summertime garden is and what a wide range of flowers you have in bloom too . Whether or not you gain ground the sunflower challenge , I ’m certain your horticultural reputation will stay inviolate – your 10.5 foot sunflower perplex any I grow or any I ’ve seen here . The unidentified puritanical bloom take a crap me recall Lobelia but I ca n’t leave a near ID .

I harmonize with others that the blue bloom looks like Lobelia siphilitica . I enjoyed this flavor at some of your later summertime flowers . I did n’t get around to putting together an EOMV post for August either . I did absolutely no work on my crushed rock garden , and just could n’t find the vim to take photos that would n’t show anything new anyway .

Sunflower

terrific as always ! I too thought it might be Lobelia . A close - up would be utile . You should see one of my Knifofias , huge and 26 prime on it at the moment . K.rooperi I reckon , a nice gentle orange . It has never been quite as well . Positioned just in front of rocks in a cryptic pocket of soil it seems to fit in perfectly , peculiarly as the rocks have orange tones in them . Very architectural . K. Thomsonii var . snowdenii is another I grow which is unusual & quite subtle . I would have a go at it to get my hands on one of those Alcathaeas as I ca n’t seem to get Hollyhocks to last . I love too , the shorter Hollyhock congenator , Sidalcea .

plainly beautiful ! Enjoy your metre in this wonderful September garden !

Oh I care September too Chloris . I enjoyed your mail . I have never see saving dahlia seed but may give it a go after read your post . Well done on the dizzying heights that your helianthus has reached says she green with invidia . My sunflowers were probably less than 9 inches this year when the biff smash them . Funnily enough there is a self seeder at the allotment which has take me by surprise and is now over a metrical foot high but I do n’t think that it ’s going to blossom in time .

Dahlia ‘Cafe au Lait’

Gorgeous flowers and what an amazing helianthus … they do get very big sometimes….thankfully mine did not founder until the storm in August and the bush in front of them was a good brace as they hulk over 10 base tall .