Just in the nick of time I am joining Chloris at The Blooming Garden with my Ten Favourites for September. You can see what others have posted by visiting Chloris Here
Number one in Our Garden@19 is a flower on the Ginger Lilly, I have been waiting two years since I was given them for one to flower. This year one did!
I have had a soft spot for Morning Glory since growing them as a child, this one is from a late sowing of mixed colours.
I purchased Kirengeshoma palmata after seeing it look so wonderful in Beth Chatto’s garden, I now grow it in a pot on the patio, where I can keep an eye on it due to the slugs loving it is much as I do!
You cannot help but smile when you see the Cyclamen growing in all the inhospitable dry areas where little else will survive. Here along the shrubbery it is joined by…
…the Arum, whose main attraction is its leaf markings earlier in the year. I usually sow some of the berries each autumn to increase my stock.
Mentioning the shrubbery, the shrubs are adding colour to the garden just now, not least the Fuchias
This one has such elegant flowers compared to the more blousy ones above.
One of my favourite shrubs ever since I first saw it in Rosemary Verey’s garden is the Leycesteria, especially the yellow leaved one here along the shrubbery walk, lit up by the September sunshine.
September is Michaelmas time and this is a favourite, you can call it a Daisy, Aster or as the famous victorian gardener, William Robinson did ‘Starworts’ or whatever the botanists have now decided. ‘Little Carlow’ is a good reliable one which doesn’t suffer from mildew, the sad fate of so many.
I pair it with this well behaved Golden Rod with its arching flowering stems.
We inherited many Nerine bowdenii from my Great Aunt’s garden, I shared them with my brother, sister and daughters. They are in Our Garden@19, also here, in the allotment cutting garden I share with our youngest daughter. They are a beautiful flower of September along with a reminder of our Great Aunt who had them growing along the south side of her house. She used to sell them by the bunch at the door.
Those are my ten for September, I hope you enjoy them.
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Beautiful flowers, Brian. I think my favourites are Nerine and Cyclamen.
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Thanks Eliza.
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The aster and goldenrod are particularly lovely.
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They do make a lovely pair.
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Good choices
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Thanks Sue.
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Very enjoyable, Brian! Thank you 🙂
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My pleasure Pete.
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They are all lovely Brian. The ginger lily flower is exquisite – certainly worth the wait! Especially love those asters too. 🙂
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Thanks Cathy. I have several more GL, perhaps next year will be a bummer one!
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I obviously ment a ‘bumper ‘ one Cathy.
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Thank you for joining in with your September favourites Brian, they are all winners. Little Carlow is one of my favourite asters and it looks beautiful growing with Golden Rod. How lovely to see the abundance of flowers on your allotment.
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Thank you Chloris for hosting.
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Such a lovely autumn collection! I love your fuschia. I have only been able to keep one type in the garden, Riccartonii, but is a favourite plant. Amelia
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Thanks Amelia, they are good this time of year. I guess they can’t take the summer heat in your garden.
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The Kirengeshoma palmata is new to me – really interesting. I’m not a huge fan of fuchsias but the magellanica is quite pretty 🙂
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It was also new to me Sam when I saw it in Beth’s garden and could not resist!
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All are wonderful. I love the color of your Ginger Lily. Mine is white but I prefer yours.
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Thank you Susie.
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This is a lovely selection. Glad your ginger lily flowered this year! The golden leycesteria is a nice find. It can be a bit dour usually, but yours is just the opposite.
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Thanks Allison.
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And a lovely ten they are too! I especially the love the nerines, so beautiful.
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They are. The ones on the allotment are excellent for cutting for the house.
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Oh your nerines are gorgeous Brian! After achieving flowers on some of mine (all in pots, so they can be brought inside over winter) last year, there are sadly no signs at all of any this year 😦
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Thanks Cathy. All mine stay outside, I have planted them the same as Great Aunt had done, close together, on the south side of the house ( open ground on the allotment) with half the bulb above ground.
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Hmm, perhaps I need to rethink again – they started off in the ground but did nothing so I potted them and had a couple of flowers last year
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A lovely selection of September specials Brian. I love that all your family are sharing in your great aunt’s bulbs….an inheritance that keeps on multiplying, no doubt with the joy of gardening too. A heritage well worth passing on.
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Thank you Noelle,we have several plants from both my mothers and great aunts gardens. It does make them more special.
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I have Kirengeshoma envy! What a gorgeous plant!
Leycesteria formosa is wonderful for wildlife. I learnt at the weekend that it is also an excellent lemur plant. The ring-tailed lemurs at Cotswold Wildlife Park scramble over it, enjoying the berries.
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You will have to visit Beth Chatto’s to satisfy your envy, Sarah
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Tall Michaelmas daisies and golden rod seem to have dropped away from most gardens – and I miss them.
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Some golden rods have a bad name for being invasive, this one is well behaved Lucy,
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Oh “Little Carlow’ is a favourite with me too Brian. Sadly for the allotment bees my plant up there gave up the ghost this year but I do have it in the garden too. I’ve just bought a kirengeshoma palmata for the second time round. I didn’t know that it is slug fodder! 😦
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Neither did I Anna, it Was looking wonderful at Beth Chatto’s which is an organic garden.
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