beautiful..I keep checking on the far north just to see how the season goes, and how you guys deal with the short season...things are looking good there!

Very lovely beds and great photos, Leo! In the first photo, is that the aster that you feel is too big for the spot? Even so, looks like a nice backdrop from this angle. Has the Anemone tomentosa robustissima wintered over for you? I gave my mom and sister in zone 2 each a piece of it last year from my plant, and it seems neither wintered over, so I'm curious how yours has done.

There's more colour going on yet then I would have thought!

And a total shocker.... the anemone is sending out more buds! I had thought they were total goners for the season.

Ang

Looking good! Ang, what a beautiful colour of anemone. Are they hardy for you or do you dig them up? They're one of my faves. But I've always had them disappear never to be seen again.

The purple swiffer looking thing is an aster right? It's nice.

Leo, I didn't know I liked yellow clematis until I saw yours... very pretty!

Love the pictures Leo and Ang! Me thinks I'll have to try some anemones soon ;)

That terrible f**** has been hitting all around me, but since we're on a bit of a hill haven't had any yet....knock on wood. The neighbors 1/4 mile away have had f**** twice already, yikes!
Anyway, I'm very impressed with the length of bloom time for this ligularia 'Desdemona'
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some asters DS gave me for mother's day that he started from seed.

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Not sure where the johny jump ups came from, but they're cute, so they can stay.
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some glads;

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The roses are still looking great.
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close up, of who else? Hawkeye Belle
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DeMontarville
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Laurie

Lori,
I have had the anemone over 4 winters. It is the one plant I do mulch heavily with straw and water it well in the weeks going into winter. We are very fortunate here in not having the freeze/thaw cycles you have in Alberta. Once it freezes hard it stays that way and I resist the temptation to taking the mulch off before the weather settles in the spring.

Leo, I love the colour combo of your asters (?) and the yellow clematis! And your anemone is really cool too! Wow, it winters over for you! That is awesome!

Northspruce, this is my first year with these anemones. They are the anemone "de Caen" variety with apparently is "rated" for zones 7-10. I'll be digging them up forsure! Earlier in the year I was not too happy with them because they kept needing SOOO much watering and they were constantly dropping for me. BUT now they have been doing great so I've changed my mind about them!

Laurie, great bloomers! I especially love the colouring on that first glad!

Leo, you started that tangutica from seed THIS year? Mine is still little and spindly and about a foot tall!

At least some of these are doing better! Here are more of those salmon poppies blooming in a different spot:
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A bee busy in the cosmos:
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Look at these tiny things! They're cosmos (see them in among the normal-sized ones?), but i've never heard of them being that little!
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One zinnia - three looks:
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Sedum Bertram Anderson:
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Boys and their toys - dh and his friend were levelling out this area in the back and taking out some trees where we intend to expand the vegetable garden:
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Very nice Leo....I've had no luck growing Anemone tomentosa here in this garden, third time trying 'Robustissima', I give up if it doesn't show up next spring ;)

Great photos everyone.... mine are in the Gallery ;)

Sharon

Marcia, I really like your Sedum Bertram Anderson. Is that it's summer colour foliage or does it turn that colour in the fall? It's very pretty and looks like it would do well draped over a wall or rock.
Laurie

Laurie, that's its colour all summer long. Do you want some cuttings?

Marcia, you have mail :)

Wow still tons of color here too, amazingly enough. The freakiest thing for me here is that I have a Lupin coming into bud! I started them from seed by winter sowing and I think that because it has been so cool and wet it must think it is spring and is sending out a bud! I will try and get some pics to post later on.
I still have tons of johnny jump ups blooming, and after the frost last week I thought the Forget Me Nots were done for but they still have color and so do the Lavatera! I finally got everything moved from the front shady area to the side and put my hosta's out front. All I really have left to do now is to move a pile of soil around to the side where the water has been pooled all summer and try and fill in that dip a bit!

New Lupin seedlings blooming in the fall is a common occurance in my garden. I usually have quite a few self-seeded ones blooming in September. Looks strange for these spring bloomers to be doing this but it is kinda neat. I guess once the plants reach maturity, they don't care what time of year it is....they just want to bloom!
Jan

Wow, I'm jealous...only a little color in my garden right now. Erica, Aster and many a coneflower...they're just about done. Guess I need some more fall bloomers... :) My ninebark still has some nice leaf color...but for flowers, I think I'm done this year. Maybe I'll do glads one of these years...the pics look great.
-S

Well here's whats still going here.

Clematis Golden Tiara....rescued from Canadian Tire, it has climbed to over 6' in this tree!

Clematis Rooguchi

Sunflower...almost there...Might not make it if we have another night like last night!

This one barely made it...its pretty small!

Still strawberries!

Gloriosa Daisy...from seed....I think I have 3 flowers from the whole packet.

Delph....and dog!

Agastache....first to bloom and still going strong.

Poppies have never stopped blooming.

Echinacea Doppleganger getting its second row of petals. I hope this makes it over the winter.

Lavatera...definitely planting more of this next year.

This is my Forget Me Not....It has been covered with tons of flowers since we got back in August. I think thats perennial Baby's Breath beside it.

Lilies....I just moved thise from the front along with the baby's breath. I am surprised they held their blooms!

And the fall blooming Lupin.

And tons of moss as you can see from that last picture.

That blue Forget Me Not...when I took this picture I noticed that the seed pods are exactly the same as the seed pods from that tall white flower I was looking for an ID for...and once I noticed that I realized that the leaves look very similar. I'll post them both together in the gallery so we can compare. I think I still have the packet from the Forget Me Not...so I can hopefully find the right name for it.