September pix

So, any interest in a plant/gardening thread? If so, please join in and post whatever's looking good in your yard at the start of fall... as frost threatens here tonight, brrr...

Verbascum nigrum, the imposing glory of a mature plant - love 'em!

Interest in a gardening thread - of course! More please. That is an impressive clump of verbascum. Don't think mine is even blooming.

The very familiar* Clematis 'Jackmanii' - fabulous as a groundcover or (more usually) as a climber...

*Edited to add!~


This message was edited Sep 7, 2008 9:09 PM

Hi, echoes - join in!

Our native baneberry, Actaea spicata ssp. rubrum and Ajuga x tenorii 'Valfredda/Chocolate Chip':

Another one that needs its space (and then some), but is so beautiful in its time...grapeleaf anemone, Anemone tomentosa robustissima:

The only cyclamen I've found hardy here to date (though I sure had hopes for C. coum), Cyclamen purpurascens - they are incredible flower machines, and are even fragrant!

Sea holly, Eryngium planum - bee-magnet:

An incredible workhorse of a bloomer... Ipomopsis macrosiphon - it started blooming at the end of June, and it's just starting to trail off:

Solidago canadensis(?) 'Goldkind' and Geranium 'Patricia' (another amazingly heavy bloomer, just starting to wind down lately)...

And some colour on the tropical side - from the greenhouse, Canna 'Tropicanna' (just had it ID'd here). (That's the correct spelling - yeah, I appreciate the pun but it makes my finger twitch toward the delete key, LOL!)

The drooping petals of Ratibida pinnata...

Great Photos!

Here's my grouping in front of the tramp

Alpine Strawberries (berry until killing frost)

Castor Bean (covered with a frost cloth last night)

Little Joe Pye (about 3 feet)

Echinacia

starfighter lily

Thanks, Don - let's see what's happening out there in tropical zone 6!

Very nice, Joannabanana! How many 'Starfighter' bulbs did you plant there? It makes a great late display!

Here's a jungle-like welter of wild cucumber (Echinocystis lobata - very fragrant! Fun seed pods too!), our native anise-hyssop (Agastache foeniculum), and Clematis tubulosa v. davidiana:

Eupatorium cannabinifolium 'Flore Pleno', just starting to open... (not having to worry too much about the early frosts is a great thing about perennials, especially since many things seem a bit late this year):

(Edited for spelling.)


This message was edited Sep 8, 2008 8:34 PM

Well I did enjoy seeing all these photos. Checked on my verbascum nigrum and it finished blooming long ago, somehow I missed it. Lori, you have some interesting plants. I have the Actaea with the white berries.

Joanne, does that Little Joe Pye really stay at 3 feet? Have you still got Oriental lilies blooming? I have just a couple of white speciosum to bloom, and then we're done.

My gardens have been sadly neglected this year so not a lot to take pictures of, but I will post a few before I head off to bed.

Nice big blossoms on this Baloon Flower

Brunnera Jack Frost and Host Halcyon

Gentians in a hosta

Clematis herachleifolia

Bit of a blue trend...

Chelone

I think this phlox is Jessica

last one, Clematis viticella Blue Bell

Lovely shots, echoes! Your garden looks very mature and well filled-in. I especially love the brunnera - hosta combo for the gorgeous silvery effect! Do you find that Chelone require a fair bit of water? I had one (I forget the species) years ago that seemed to do well, but I planted a C. obliqua out front last year, and found I had to give it extra water a few times this summer... not what I remembered, and a bit surprising given their Penstemon affinity.

Clematis 'Blue Boy' seems to have forsaken its trellis in favor of rambling through the nannyberry...

Very nice Lori!
I'll have to g o out and get some pics tomorrow.
In the meantime here is my bee magnet!

And my Stargazers only bloomed last week!

Foliage is the backbone of the garden... a good thing, as flowering rapidly dwindles here.
Evergreen Paxistima canbyi with Pulmonaria 'Excalibur'... sadly, not evergreen ;)...

Hi, fancyvan - glad you have joined in and I'd love to see some more pix! Yes, echinops is a great one for bees too - in our yard, a huge white Salvia nemorosa 'Snow Hill' (and to some extent, S. transylvanica - also very extravagantly-blooming, in purple) kept hordes of bees busy for most of the summer, until the echinops, sea holly and Thymus serpyllum came along later on... I really enjoy watching them.

Geranium himalayense is a good, steady bloomer and is still at it.... while beginning to show a little of that wonderful red fall colour, common to geraniums...

Joannabanana... love the alpine strawberries! Are they as flavorful as our native ones? (I guess they might be the same species as one of our native ones, Fragaria vesca...?) They make a lovely groundcover.

Echinops tschimganicus... not really as showy as the blue ones, but it would be nice to add a silvery effect in a planting, I suppose. (Ha, after talking about bees and echinops, I opened this photo and thought, "What gives? No bees?" But I zoomed in and did find a couple of shy ones... hiding from the paparazzi, I guess.)

Ü It's a bit early (in the a.m.) for me to look at each picture individually but I have to say I've been thinking WOW do you ladies have gorgeous gardens as I've been scanning the thumbnails! Very impressive and I'll be back when my eyes don't need toothpicks to keep them open.

Well altagardner, hardly tropical when compared to the southwestern parts of BC. We have more desert-like conditions in south border country in the interior. Had a wicked hot summer this year, but that is the norm down here. Our forecasts are very similar to Osoyoos which is an hour and a half west of us.

Don't have too many photos, but here are a few. The first is the front yard.

Flowers pots are starting to look a little tired. But after what they have had to go through this summer, not too much worse for wear...

My roses had a very good year, and I am very proud of them. Here is Chicago Peace this past weekend.

Sharifa Asma Austin English Rose...

This Purple Wave Hanging plant is still looking good, I think because it gets deadheaded every day and lots and lots of water...

Last, a closeup of a Princess Plant flower. This plant sits on my deck and since it is a tropical plant, I am thinking I'll take a cutting and start a new plant for next summer.