^^ Nice color combo.

Here's aster and "Chocolate" Joe Pye (with milkweed pods gunking up the vignette):

My monkshood are just starting their show, not pic-worthy yet.

What is that chrysanthemum, GardenHo? I am going to get a few as I love autumn daisies but struggle with all the usual asters et al as my climate is just too dry. The sole 'mum i have (Emptress of China) is cast-iron and absolutely not fazed by the dry soil and lack opf rain so I thought it would be worth a punt - loathe those enormous frilly things though (beloved of dads on allotments) and really prefer the simple rubellums and Koreans.

Mx that is a nice stand of JP. I had some seversl years back but it never did anything...stayed as tiny as it was when planted, so they got shovel pruned.

Rosa I’m not sure I’ll have to go check to see if I have the tag. I have a well organized filing system down in the garage. (A stack of tags on a shelf lol)

Rosa its a ‘Mammoth Coral Daisy’

O cheers, GardenHo. I am not keen on coral or salmon or peach colours normally, but in a garden setting, I have loads of them. I think green always tones and naturalises some of the more garish floral colours because I have a whole bunch of warm toned plants - from apricot right through to bronzes - more than any other colour family. I do have a definite lack of white though. Apart from spring blossom and ramblers, I have one solitary thalictrum. I am vaguely planning a silver/white/grey border though, as part of my new xeric resolutions.

Rosa I’m not to keen on the color either but thought I’d try it for something different. The manmoth is what sold me honestly. I have some orange mammoths on my slope that I just love but unfortunately the blasted rabbits got them this year.

Here are a few other mums currently blooming. All noids....

I’ve had this one for years..its a real trooper

First Red ever in my garden...With ’Little Henry’

And more reds to my surprise as they were supposed to be an orange shade

^^ Oh, that hot pink one is a stunner!

Mx thanks...that one is my favorite!

Heres a few more colors...

Young Coral bark JM with oakleaf hydrangea and burning bush

Anemones

Montauk Daisy just starting to bloom

more Asters...these noids got so tall!

And my favorite fall bed previously posted with all the sedum...now in its deepest color..

No one else wants to share?

Lovely gardens, GardenHo. Looks so put together and coherent.

Thanks for this thread and the wonderful photos! I want to post photos but technical difficulties as per usual for me, photos are on the phone but wouldn't submit and photos aren't yet on the laptop (thanks icloud /s)

I'll try again tomorrow because, although our fall is early and brief, I'd like to share what's going on here.

Same, same lat62. The autumn sages are freaking glorious right now but can I manage a photo?

Beautiful photos!! I don’t have a lot going on, mostly hydrangeas providing fall color, but my Lemon Queen still looks pretty and of course Autumn Joy is doing her thing. lovely, lovely fall day here in Michigan today!

I'd love to share but I have nothing to share! My garden was really ravaged by the drought this summer. I have a straggly mum in bloom, my asters look pathetic, my sedum is sparse. I do have a diervilla that should turn soon but not yet, and my montauk daisies are not in bloom yet either.

Best thing in my garden right now is my cosmos. They took a big hit over the summer but are blooming their little heads off now. Oh, and I do have some monkshood in bud, but really not much else.

So I'm enjoying all the photos here!

:)

Dee

LMC your pumpkin lantern is so cute! I have yet to put out any decorations...not sure I will this year.

Lat62 I’m surprised to see an astilbe blooming this late....very pretty!

Thanks for sharing : )

Dee sorry to hear that. Its so disheartening to see after spending so much time creating your gardens.

I had very low rainfall here too. The last 5-6 years have been rough. Drought filled and much hotter than normal.

For me it wasnt so bad out there since I dug out almost everthing that isnt drought tolerant. It was hard to do but now there is much less ’ugly’ to look at. I no longer could stand to watch them crispen up/wither away each summer so out they went...finally. It took me years to do it....

Just past our property in the public park:

GardenHo and all,

The astilbe photo was from Sept. 24, the other photos from Oct. 9, but that astilbe kept its color through another week at least... I guess I cheated a little because it was so pretty. Being nestled in east of peonies and other things, I think it took a little extra time.

I loved how the Stachys officinalis (betony) kept its color too - it finally made a show in its 3rd or 4th year from seed.

Thanks for this fun thread!

Golden Arrows Persicaria and September Charm Anemone:

Neighbor’s house

Love, love the trees!

I dont have many trees so I get some color with burning bushes. I know many dont care for them but I sure do.

These ones have gotten quite large...they will be hard pruned.

More down by the driveway...3 large ones recently limbed up to let some late sun onto the plants on the North side...partially hidden here.

Acer Aureum in the back yard.

Attempting to load a photo on my phone

A view of part of the allotment. Think I have this sorted so will be bombarding forum with rubbish.

Apols for dreary pic (am tempted to delete so blurry and dull)- stabbed at minuscule thumbprints at random (no specs).

Here is a demented pic of tiny garden at home

AARGH, I just did a reply and lost it! Trying again….

How big is your ’tiny’ home garden? It looks like you have a greenhouse…? I am an RHS member and find their Garden magazine as interesting for its ads as for the articles. Both give a good sense of how gardening differs there vs. here. I liked your picture of the allotment. I can see the logic in growing edibles there but I’d want ornamentals to be in my home garden - unless they were being grown for cut flowers, maybe for sale…. How close is the allotment to your house?

My home garden is around 40square metres...but the greenhouse takes up 12 m2, so I have a small space which is only 4metres wide and 7metres deep with a short path alongside the glasshouse. My allotment, which is about half a mile away (or 4-5minutes by bike), is just over 500square metres (around 11metres wide and 50metres long) so quite a bit bigger than my home garden. It was meant to be a 20 pole plot (but is a bit less) but still much bigger than most other plots which have often been reduced to 10poles, or 5poles or even 3 poles.* How big is yours, Floral?

* a pole (or rod or perch) is an archaic measure of area - 5.5yards by 5.5yards.

The part of my allotment pictured, shows the last remaining vegetable beds. They are long and thin so I can reach across both sides without stepping on the beds. However, many ornamentals have crept in at each end of the long beds so I will only have 1 left for next year and some odd corners for squeezing potatoes in. I have various 'areas' such as 'meadow, gravel garden, fruit borders, late summer borders, pond area, composting area, rose garden, spring garden and so on. These are often transient whims and may have a short lifespan. I use fruit trees (cordons) and bushes as hedges and dividers, along with the (laughable) rose 'fedge'..

None of it looks anything like most of the gardens here (which all look put together and harmonious). I avoid looking at gardening magazines which just make me feel flustered and hopeless (although I dearly love my plot).

Today.....some colors still hanging in there...

This gift that keeps on giving. These little buggers continue to reseed all around....

A few more...

ooh I like those reds - particularly the red 'mums - are they a variety that overwinters in the ground? A Mammoth variety perhaps?

Woody sorry I dont know, but do know they are not mammoths and yes they come back. I really like them also (only red flowers in my gardens) and unfortunately they are slowly disappearing : (

Last bloom of 'Savannah' rose - survived high 30s over night!

Garlic coming up...

Love the color of this Bok Choy and a bonus the rabbits ignore it.

I dug up 2 clumps of miniature daffodils that were in the way of a new planting scheme for next year, and I was very surprised how large the clumps were, since they haven't been in the ground that long. I ended up with 40 pots of bulbs with 3/4 bulbs in each one. lol Guess I don't have to order bulbs this year.

The lawn coming back after drought this summer.

Aronia managed some berries despite the drought.

Oregon Sunset JMaple;

Callicarpa dichotoma only in its 2nd year I grew from cuttings

And my lycoris radiata that bloomed a few weeks ago. Looks best at night when lit by my house light

Is that Lycoris a lily bulb? That Calicarpia is so pretty!

A fuchsia microphylla which has some flowers all year

Yes they are bulbs but not a lily, they are in the amarayllis family. The callicarpa berries are nice but interestingly no signs of bird life. That would be another plus for this plant but I guess they are too bitter for the birds

Texas sage, s.coccinea with sparmannia and ss.involucrata

A final fling for s.elegans (salvias are great late summer blooms).

TheThThe odd buds of salvia involucrata,

Some lovely photos of plants and gardens on here - Heruga, your plants look outstanding and GardenHo - your garden is an absolute treasure. Makes me a bit hesitant to put my terrible novice pics up on here. Have to keep practicing though. PM - loads going on there...and all looking plump and delicious. O Rouge, I don't know you you do it...unless you have an infinitely expanding garden and purse. Always looks at peak loveliness.

Woody - yours always looks serene and inviting. I manage to get some of that but only for a few weeks in spring before it gradually tips into chaos.

So many pretty pics! Lycoris bulbs did not put on much of a show here this year. Too dry.

Rosa thank you, and we love seeing your gardens. You kept us in the dark for so long, so its a real treat whenever you share! I would love to tinker in your back garden with a nice hot cup of coffee...

Heruga, beautiul specimens!

While out today cleaning up leaves I noticed some surprising color still lingering. Continus colored up nicely, better than I ever remember...

Up close

Dwarf version ’Winecraft’ on right

oooh, hakone grass envy - my sheepdog eats every stem (along with millium and, would you believe, chrysanthemum leaves).

Next year, gardenhouse, I hope to have some pics worth showing. I am always hopelessly ashamed of the floriferous but hideously messy mishmash of my main garden (allotment).

My home garden is so squeezed, one person can just about get from back door to greenhouse...and only if they breathe in as hard as possible and walk sideways.

Rogue, that pic is incredible! Magazine cover category. As pretty and colorful as any "flower bed" and the interesting leaf shapes make that just perfect.

Yep, I dunno how Rouge manages to maintain such beautiful and flawless displays. Great photography too - always perfect placement: you never catch glimpses of rubbish, dying branches, broken bits of plastic, battered pots, washing hung out to dry, old bikes, flashes of someone's shoe or thumb...etc.etc. Growing great plants then taking great photos...enough to trigger a bit of unseemly plant envy for those of us with scruffy gardens and dreadful eyesight (that would basically be me).

Ay caramba @Nevermore44 - 6a...STUNNING!

Nothing compares to an Amsonia's Fall colour.

I dunno how Rouge manages to maintain such beautiful and flawless displays. Great photography too - always perfect placement:

@rosaprimula UK (Cambridge) Z8/9 I am so glad you are back :). And for sure thanks also @Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL!