September Bloomers
Cyclamen hederifolium
There is no doubting that autumn is on the way when the Cyclamen start to appear. Some of these are already producing seed pods and sprouting their ivy-like leaves, which remain all winter.
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Many of the old stalwarts have been flowering for months.
Penstemon Garnet
Astrantia major
Meconopsis cambrica, the Welsh Poppy
It springs up everywhere, but I’ve been trying to establish it in a drift on the bank, with mixed success so far. It seems that it decides where it wants to grow, not me.
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Two new additions to the garden are starting to establish..
Tricyrtis formosana ‘Pink Freckles’
Chelone ‘Obliqua’
Also known as ‘Turtle Head’. Not difficult to see why.
Day Lily?
Now this one is a bit of a mystery. It looks like a Day Lily but is only about 12 inches high. And it only started flowering late last month. My best guess is Hemerocallis ‘Stella de Oro’. But very happy to be corrected.
Verbena bonariensis
Still going strong and attracting insects a plenty.
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Other additions this year have been the Japanese anemones.
I hope they don’t turn out to be invasive.
Anemone hupehensis ‘Praecox’
Anemone x hybrida ‘Honorine Jobert’
Anemone hupehensis ‘Rotkappchen’
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The sedums are just starting to open.
I gave them the benefit of a Chelsea Chop in May. As a result they are late, but will hopefully be more compact.
Sedum inherited (variety unknown)
A taste of things to come.
Linking to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day at May Dreams Gardens, where you will find other September bloomers from around the world.
We have the cyclamen too both the white and pink variety and love them! They carpet quite an expanse under a red maple and another acer [both unkown mature trees]. They were a lovely surprise when they appeared the first autumn we lived here.
This year there are fewer because it has been very dry in July & August.
I think mine need to bulk up a bit. They were planted last year and still a bit spindly. They too are under acer, although a smaller one closer to the ground. Hence stretching themselves to reach the light.
Welsh poppies and penstemons abounding here in Kent, too. The buddleia is still going strong and the French tarragon has bloomed, but I think this is because I was ruthless with cutting back its lemon balm neighbour and it has finally got some sunshine! Lovely cyclamen!
I have started to collect penstemons. They just go on and on and behave themselves impeccably. You’ve reminded me to take some cuttings of the tarragon.
Wish I knew the names of all the plants in our garden.
It’s easy at the moment as a lot of the plants are relatively new and I have not yet lost the labels!! The stuff I inherited is a different matter altogether.
Do try the larger Autumn crocus, in flower now, and a delicate lavender/lilac colour; the leaves appear earlier in the year and die back before it flowers. You must have a wonderful microclimate to have so much flowering at present, a great bonus!
I will try some, thanks Pats. Most bulbs get eaten by the mice, but I keep going in the hope that I may find some they do not like!
We are very sheltered here, on the side of a valley, it must help.
You have a wonderful floral display. A lot of my flowers have finished now – mostly being shredded by the slugs. I would love to have Astrantia Major in my garden along with ‘pink freckles’ – such pretty flowers.
The slugs are back in force aren’t they. It’s too early to know how they feel about ‘freckles’, but they seem to leave the astrantia alone.. hope you’re feeling better x
Any of those beauties could invade my garden and I wouldn’t mind.
I sort of feel the same Denise, but may well be eating my words by this time next year..
So many things blooming. It’s a time when the garden starts to wind down and lots of things look past their best, but not in your garden. I really must get an astrantia, I say it every time I see one on a blog but still haven’t managed it.
I wouldn’t be without it. It’s long lasting, insects love it and it looks so light and airy in the border.
You have plants flowering that were over for me months ago! My Welsh poppies and Astrantias finished such a long time ago and my Japanese anemones have just given up and are looking thoroughly miserable, I don’t think they are going to flower this year unfortunately, but you never know, maybe they just need this extra bit of rain that we were promised for today!
We certainly got the rain.. 🙁
I read somewhere that we should be chopping down Astrantia, foliage and all, mid season as soon as it starts to look a bit tired. Then it’s supposed to send up a whole new load of leaves and flowers. I nip off all the flower stems but leave the foliage, because I don’t want a big gap in the border. I do get some new growth, but not as luxuriant as the first time around.
So many lovely blooms still in your garden.
Thanks! It may well be a shorter post next month though..
My japanese anemones have finished flowering – they can invade as much as they like, I love them! Love the photo of the cyclamen, especially the curls. Julie x
I planted the anemones with a lot of space around them, fingers crossed it will be a while before they become a problem. As invaders go, they beat bindweed!
Those cyclamen seed pods are lovely aren’t they?
that certainly does look an awful lot like my stella d’or…..but mini!! and cyclamens!! in the garden!!! (I only see them around here in pots to buy at the holidays!!!!) good luck with the Japanese anemones….mine are EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We can also buy indoor Cyclamen plants around Christmas time, but the ones for the garden are a much hardier variety.
Those anemones are easy to dig up though, right???? 😉
Great photos!… I have anemones just starting and various sedums. Fall showed up here in Michigan with temps dropping down to lower 40’s… But it is bringing those later fall blooms out.
Hi Kate and welcome to rusty duck!
My anemones are newly planted, so I hope they’ll do OK. Getting colder here too now, the trees are just beginning to turn.
Your garden looks beautiful. I had that Astrantia at my former garden and just can’t seem to succeed with it in my current garden. It is such a beautiful flower. I try to remember to give my bigger sedums a haircut. I love your term — Chelsea Chop; maybe that name will help me to remember to do it come next year.
Hi Linda and welcome to rusty duck!
It’s called that because the time to cut them back is when the Chelsea Flower Show is on in London. It’s a good reminder for me too. 🙂
For the first time this year I tried it on the asters as well. They are taking AGES to come out, but they do look bushier and seem to have more flowers than in previous years… we shall see!
What delicate blooms. White Cyclamen always remind me of nuns’ head dresses !
I can see what you mean!!
My japanese anemones are mightily invasive, but I plan to mow them when I have the heart. You have a fine array of late-flowering blooms.
I should have put them beside the lawn, anything with the audacity to hang but a single leaf over the edge gets mown by Mike as a matter of course.
The astrantia major is very pretty. Pouring with rain here. NOT a day to be in the garden 🙁
Absolutely foul here too. Rain is coming in sideways and more forecast for tomorrow. I think I shall join the ladybirds and hibernate.
What a beautiful set of pics, your garden must be such a pleasure at the moment.
I am a huge anemone fan and you sure have some beauties. I also adore that pink freckles, gorgeous it is.xxxx
Thanks. The garden is getting more of a pleasure as I make some headway with it. Could do without the rain though, I was on a roll!!
Lovely selection. The tricyrtis formosana is gorgeous!
It is. Will be interesting to see how it does, over winter especially. Thanks Jenny.
Your garden is looking so good. Your plant does look very much like the Hemerocallis ‘Stella de Oro’ that we have in our garden. It is a much smaller plant that our other orange day lilies. I wish Welsh poppies would grow in our garden don’t the slugs and snails attack yours?
Sarah x
They don’t seem to, nor the mice. But the poppies have a mind of their own. I scattered the seed where I thought I’d like a nice clump, and they’ve come up anywhere but. Thanks for the ID!
I don’t know what is better the flowers or the photography!
Thanks Janie. Dodging the rain showers this weekend..
I love that cyclamen. Only houseplants in my zone. The curls and foliage are nice too. A very nice photo.
I don’t think the anemones will be invasive, but if happy I find they do make quite a colony.
I can grow that toad lily. My autumn crocus not showing yet, maybe in a few weeks.
Do you get much snow there? No gardening here today, we are working on our wood stockpile for winter.
Winters vary in their severity, some mild and we can have no snow at all. The next winter, several inches of the stuff. Devon is in one of the mildest areas of the country, but we can still go down to -10C or below.
Wow, you have some lovely “babies.” So glad you shared them. They brightened my day. I think the yellow one you asked about is a Stella D’Oro lily. Blessings, Natalie
Thanks Natalie, identifying something you inherited can be tricky!
Love the curliques on the cyclamen
Fascinating how they use ants and wasps to spread the seed.
I enjoyed your September floral show Jessica. I can only echo your comments on the Welsh Poppy – mine came into the garden completed uninvited and I have never been able to get rid of them since 🙂
And don’t they come up in the oddest of places?? The one we photographed was growing out of concrete.. no soil in sight.
Lovely last bursts of colour to set us up for the autumn and winter months.
I hope they have survived today’s wind and rain! Glad you had a good time away.
I normally see Cyclamen popping up here as well but nothing sofar this year. Very strange…. I didn’t know there was a flower called ‘Welsh Poppy’! Lovely! The Astrantia has long done blooming here. It ‘s something that only blooms once here, in springtime. Love the Anemones! That freckled flower and the Chelone are so exquisite! From what I see, you have a garden that’s still in full bloom. It’s great to have colour in the garden still when grey days appear.
Marian
The weather has now gone seriously down hill, so I’m not sure how long the colour will last. The Chelone, after a couple of days of torrential rain is looking a bit sad. Many of my plants are in their first year, the garden is so newly developed. I’m looking forward to seeing it all next season when it will be more established!
I could just sit and stare and flowers for hours … our farm is in best best flower bloom right now .
Love your photos, thanks for the share !
Thanks Willow,
I need to resume my old habit of going for a walk every morning to see what’s new. We are trying to extend the season a bit, both ends, so we can have flowers for longer in the year. We shall see, made more difficult because bulbs are a bit of a challenge here.
Oh, you have cyclamens already! Mine have only just stopped flowering, in late July, no sign of re-appearing just yet but I sowed some seeds last year and they have appeared as tiny seedlings on my nursery shelf this week. Loved your tricyrtis, I had ‘lemon and lime’ for many years but it disappeared and I miss it, think I will get some new ones. Your Japanese anemones are lovely too, I have a white one self-seeded from another garden so I don’t know the name, but it is pure white and in full flower still, would love to have some other colours. Thanks for the tour around your lovely garden, always a great pleasure to come and visit you 🙂
Thank you Helene!
I love the sound of ‘lemon and lime’ tricyrtis and will look it up. I do struggle with Cyclamen here, both the coum and the hederifolium. Perhaps it is too wet for them. I have the one little clump that we photographed and live in hope they will bulk up, as otherwise they are quite sparse. Well done with your seed!!
They all look absolutely gorgeous. I’ve only got pink Japanese Anemones but would much prefer the white ones. So useful at this time of year when so little else (up here) is in flower. So true about the Welsh Poppies; I sprinkle the seeds where I want them and they come up everywhere else!
I’ve tried moving the poppies, but with that long tap root more oft than not they just curl up and die.
Beautiful photos of beautiful flowers. I have never seen Turtle Head before but what an interesting flower!
Also the Tricyrtis is so pretty. It has sort of a tropical look about it. It’s still early for cyclamen here, but I look forward to having them in bloom on my front porch. Thank you for sharing your lovely flowers!
Thanks Dorothy. Tricyrtis does look tropical, I hope it will survive our snow and frost, never grown it before…
You take the most beautiful photos of the flowers in your garden! We have lots of both white and pink japanese anemone which do spread each year but not on as huge a scale as the spread of the aquilegias in spring. Other plants still flowering are cosmos which have done really well this year.
I must get some cosmos next year, they are lovely. Good to know that your anemones have behaved! Thanks Rosie.
We have a Welsh Poppy that will insist on growing directly in front of our garage door each year in the tarmac where there is a slight hollow and obviously bits of dirt and leaves collect in this hollow producing the tiniest amount of compost for the poppy to take root in. Of course the ones I specifically planted in the flower bed came to nothing!!
Perhaps this is the trick I have been missing. I have to sow them where there isn’t any soil.
Gorgeous flowers!
My Astrantia all gave up the ghost a couple of weeks ago, I’m really hoping nothing has got to the roots. But the Cosmos, Pot Marigolds and Hollyhocks are still going strong.
It should be OK. I hope so, because one of my red ones has just done the same!
Wow, so many beautiful flowers! And I am so impressed that you know the names of them too – deserves another wow! 🙂
Thanks Alex. Just don’t ask me what they all are this time next year… by which time I’ll have lost all the labels! 😉
Astrantia major is just lovely x
One of my favourites.
Lovely shots of the last of the late summer colour. My cyclamen has just started with a beautiful deep red but that seems to be it now due to the pruning session we did last weekend before the storm (that never happened). Enjoy the rest of your week. xx
I think it’s foreshortened for me now too.. on account of the storm (that did happen) 🙁
You too Chel!
YOu take exquisite photos of your lovely flowers. Nice to see we share some varieties, although my turtleheads are pretty much done. I LOVE toad lilies!!
Thanks Natalie.
Shortly after we took the pictures we had a storm, so my turtlehead flowers are mostly done for now too. The anemones are still going strong though.. and the toad lily is covered in flowers!
Oh what a great selection of September flowers especially that beautiful toad lily. In one of my previous gardens I had turtlehead popping up here there and everywhere and vowed that I wouldn’t grow it again. After seeing it feature on the last 3 blogs I’ve visited I wonder if I could try it on my wet clay patch. Maybe the moisture would restrain it?
Oh lord, not another invasive plant! I do choose them.
Luckily on the bank I’ve got a lot of space to fill. But in a few years I might be regretting it!
What a gorgeous selection of plants! Who said autumn was dull 🙂
There’s a lot of colour in autumn, that’s for sure! Thanks Anna.