I have the tropical Tibouchina 'Athens Blue', Princess Flower, Glory Flower in a pot on my Deck and still blooming up a storm. I know the first good frost we have, it'll be gone so am trying to propagate a couple softwood cuttings so I can grow it outside again next summer. Such a gorgeous color.
Siberian Coral Dogwood
Dwarf Aruncus, in its fall colors - one of my current favorites
The last rose of summer?
Morden Centennial
Nope, here's another.
Morden Sunrise
I've had problem with my post yesterday, they disappeared on me.
Wonderful blooms for this time of year. Can't believe how much colors you still have. Not much left here. I got this Melva that open a few days ago.
This hollyhock opening her last flower.
This waterlily had a hard time to open fully, but still was nice.
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And honeysuckle
Wow, what a beautiful fall display!
Carol~love that Morden Sunrise
burn~nice photo of the waterlily
Glo_Jo~really like your closeups!
I have nothing flowering in my Calgary garden, but I found this in the alley, trailing over a fence-thought it was kind of interesting with the sun shining through it.
Nice pic Cath - clematis seedheads are beautiful.
Carol~I thought that is what it might be (clematis seedhead) but was not certain, Thanks!
Very cool photo of the clematis seedhead!
One of our native fall-blooming asters, purple-stemmed aster (Aster puniceus):
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Silene schafta is almost done:
An errant, late-blooming stem on Penstemon palmeri, one of the few fragrant penstemons:
More colchicums... the doubles and other species are yet to come.
Aster dumosus 'Anneke' with peony foliage:
Gorgeous photos, altagardener!
Thanks, Don!
An interesting form (or hybrid?) of Campanula rotundifolia that has been blooming all season, now winding down:
The old dependable, Sedum/Hylotelephium 'Autumn Joy' - well, actually, not so dependable here, as mine are fairly often frozen off before they get to bloom! Lilac 'Miss Kim' in the background - rather interesting fall colour.
In the rock garden, Erodium petraeum ssp. crispum has been blooming modestly for a long time now.... the question, though, is whether it will winter over here... no luck with erodiums to date.
Sidalcea malviflora 'Stark's Hybrid' are still working hard... though a lot of the plants around them have quit. A close-up:
There is still the odd Linum flavum compactum in bloom, though most finished long ago:
Corydalis lutea blooms generously all season - it seeds a lot, but they are easy to pull out if not wanted.
Honeysuckle Dropmore Scarlet - this photo shows them a little redder than they really are:
Of the lilies, only Lilium henryi, looking a little anaemic so late in the season, and a late-planted yellow asiatic, still have a bloom or two:
Cool Honeysuckle!
'John Cabot':
Lots of dribs and drabs of bloom throughout the yard... Angelica taiwanensis:
My Corydalis and yellow flax are also still blooming away!
If I am lucky and this weather holds a few more days my lovely pink fall aster ( no idea which type it is - Lori you know?-it is about 4 feet high) will break out . It is a bit late this year but almost always in full flower when the first killing frost hits!
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And one of my wee Barberry's has some nice color
fancyvan,
I'd guess your aster may be Symphyotrichum (formerly Aster) novae-angliae, New England aster, possibly 'Alma Potschke', but composites are a tough group for me! I'm sure you'd get a more educated answer at the ID forum...
Here's another that I hope will get to bloom, Solidago rugosa 'Fireworks' - just google the name and "images" to see why I'm hoping the weather will hold!
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Have enjoyed all the pics
Altagardener - I'm amazed at the variety of plants you have ! Solidago 'Fireworks' knocked my socks off when it bloomed here in 2006, it has hung on but has not returned to it's former glory. It's definitely borderline here.
Here it's blooming at our local Museum that has much more sun than I can provide at my garden ...
Sandy
Thanks Lori - I am not big on bothering about exact names in some cases!
I have some other asters which I hope will bloom this year. I got rid of quite a few when it became obvious they would never bloom here - growing season not long enough but I do have a few left. Remember that really long long warm fall we had a few years ago - all my asters bloomed that year - some I had had several years and never seen a hint of a flower!
This one usually blooms but pic is from last year.
Fancy, did you have any of these type, that didn't bloom for you? I bought this at the end of August, they said it was a hardy Aster. I was wondering if it would bloom for me next year.
Altagardner, wow you still have a lo......t of blooms.
burn I dont think so.
burn, yours looks like it may be Chrysanthemum x morifolium (although if you really want to know, you should post on the ID forum).
These are available in legion at the big box stores here in late summer/fall, yet, surprisingly, they seem to be hardy here, and bloom early enough to avoid hard frosts (yes, I know what you're saying, fancyvan!) DH bought a couple last year and plugged them in for some late colour; here's one blooming now:
I always wanted those lovely big mum plants in my garden - planted some years back, they stayed small and didnt last long so I finally gave up. Then I discovered those lovely big plants were really potted and plunked down in the gardens! So now I do the same although not yet this year. Last year was when I discovered those really big ones were actually several small ones! I put about 12 in the beggie garden after the frost got them and two survived, they looked nice but no sign of flowers. Wont try that again. This is part of last years display.
By the way, Morden mums, which also do well here, are Chrysanthemum x morifolium too. (To clarify, I haven't found hardiness to really be a problem with late-blooming chrysanthemums/asters - it's more finding ones with appropriate bloom time, as was mentioned.) I've found they do very nicely for a few years, then tend to dwindle - I figure my downfall was in not dividing them before that time, to keep up their vigour.
Here's Epilobium canum ssp. garrettii (formerly Zauschneria garrettii):
