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The Garden in September September is the month of warm light, cooler dewy mornings and rapidly closing in nights. Our Helenium collection is still at its peak with the very late flowerers such as "Flammenspiel" starting their show and the rest starting their second flush of flower after deadheading. |
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 Other late flowers include Phlox paniculata cultivars. On the right the pure white "Mount Fuji" looks clean and pure in front of the dark purple leaves. Eupatorium rugosum "Chocolate". Later the Eupatorium will also have white flowers |
 There is no getting away from the heat of late summer and our experimental Red Bed is really glowing with many Helenium, Potentilla, Geum and Lobelia. |
 Echinacea
purpurea "White
Swan" is also putting on a show but the honey coloured (and
scented) cone and greenish tinge to the white petals means that it is also at
home in association with yellows like Helenium
"Goldene Jugend". |
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 At this time of year often a single
flower will catch the eye, likes Cosmos
atrosanguineus (Chocolate-scented Cosmos), lit up by the early morning
sun and looking almost perfect in colour and form. We treat them like
Dahlias and pot up the tubers in early winter, keeping them in a shed until late
February when we take them into the light and start slowly to increase watering.
New plants are planted out in late May. |
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 Other
plants like Pulmonaria "Cotton
Cool" (left) provide a late summer bonus of pristine foliage. This
plants flower in Spring and then need cutting back hard in early summer to
encourage fresh new foliage |
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 Euphorbia rigida, (right)
provides a cool, blue-green backgound to zingy yellow of Helenium
"Zimbelstern"
(Short form) |
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Kniphofia
ichnopensis is a new species in our collection. Raised form seed sown in
January, it is now flowering for us. |
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 Both Erigeron and Salvias are at their peak in September. Erigeron Quakeress and Salvia x.jamensis Marashino are blooming their socks off in our silver, pink and burgundy bed |
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 All
the New
World Salvias are excellent late flowerers adding delicate colour to the garden.
S.gregii "Peach" (left foreground) is proving to be one
of the most floriferous. We are still testing it for hardiness and hope to
introduce it to our next year. Here is planted with another new plant to
us, Kniphofia "Jane Henry", which is delicious
strawberry and cream colour. Behinds these two is an excellent small tree for
the garden, Acer davidii "Serpentine", a Snake's Bark
Maple grown as a multi-stem plant by cutting it off about 6" from the ground
whilst still quite young to make it send up multiple new shoots. |
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