I am surprised that I will be the first to add to this thread. Your plants look lovely! Ditto on the 1st two. I had ordered Honorine Jobert (if that is what yours is) and got Pamina instead.

Physostegia 'Variegata' with 'Lemon Queen' behind.

'Robustissima'

Rudbeckia triloba

Sedum 'Vera Jameson'

Tanacetum balsamita. I grow Costmary so that I can grab a leaf for that wonderful scent.

Persicaria 'Firetail' was put in last fall. I am redoing this bed.

Phlox 'Mt. Fuji'

I will have maybe a couple more but the garden is generally winding down.

Mine aren't perennials for the most part but I want this thread to grow.

peren.all your triloba is gorgeous! I always sow some of this and I'm still waiting for it to really take off and reseed on its own. So I always get a plant or two but nothing like the stand you have.

Getgoing your dahlias are lovely. Is that strawflower you have too? I have one that is (I think) Silver Rose and I love it.

:)

Dee

Yes, those are strawflowers Dee. I got them as mixed seeds last year but they were all orange red with yellow centers. This year, these are all volunteers.

September flowers here are mostly things that start in August and continue into this month. Hibiscuses, hydrangeas, anemones etc. The heptacodium tree starts blooming in time for the monarch butterfly migration, and then continues into October and even November...! Some picture I took this morning:

Bombshell Hydrangea after the flowers change from their white stage, and a few potentilla shrub flowers still in bloom under it and one set of 'White Moth' hydrangea flowers visible in the upper right.

In this picture you can see pink anemones and hibiscuses in the background and a bit of the white flowers on the heptacodium tree on the upper left in the far background. The growing season is definitely winding down now but there are still lots of interesting things in the garden.

(All the peony foliage is looking bad this year - botrytis?)

These will be blooming through October.

The red ones are pure L. indica, but the pink one in the back is one of the numberous Japanese hybrids, Hopi.

Here, we are turning a sharp corner into rainy fall after a very rainy summer... here's a few things I found yesterday,, thanks to this thread for getting me out!

Persicaria bistorta decided to rebloom, and a somewhat damp, bedraggled bumblebee tries to do his thing - hope she/he finds a hollow stem or somewhere to sleep soon -

I rarely get the actaea racemosa (bugbane) to bloom all the way,, but they do try! I like the way the sanguisorba officinalis dropped down to intermingle.

And a lily that saw fit to open up this late in the game.

Also, a heliopsis burning hearts

Loving the pictures, thanks -- Happy Autumn Equinox!

Was a very, very wet summer filled with nasty mosquitoes !!

My clematis is looking beautiful (spot the rainbow) even if it is not exuding the fragrance I expected.

Such wonderful plants!

Actaea. This was supposed to be 'Pink Spike' but I am sure I prefer the white anyway.

Actaea japonica 'Cheju-Do'

Enjoying folk’s beautiful fall gardens!

Gaillardia grandiflora 'Arizona Sun'

Sedum ’Autumn Joy’ what a name!

Front patio combo

Celosia and Hibiscus

Perennial corner

Purple pepper.

Mystic Spire Salvia

Rose Julia Child and Reminiscent Pink

Rose Raspberry Cream Twirl

Happy Fall Gardening

September is almost over!!

the fall asters are astering

not flowers but the late summer bracts of Abelia mosanensis

Begonia grandis

the Colchicums are nice

Major Wheeler Honeysucke has been blooming for most of the summer

a seedling lespedeza

Colchicum speciosa alba

My cat Grace probably plotting something catty

Prosperity rose coming through rudbeckia, right next to mealy sage (an annual here, alas…its the perfect shade of blue-purple and the blooms last forever)

zinnia ’queeny lime red’ finally looking like I expected it to. Earlier in the season they were mostly an unsappealing shade of brown, as if the green and pink just mixed.

Gardenho, your garden looks great, especially for this time of the year in zone 5.

Getgoing thank you. I can finally get out for pics now as the mosquitoes have been so bad. Patiently waiting for a cool down to rid them all!

It's odd that you are celebrating cool down and I am thinking how short the warm weather is. I guess no mosquitoes make me like summers than the would otherwise.

More than*

The dahlias are loving the cool season and going on with zero direct sunlight now.

Love that yellow gg!

Yes I’ll take the cool weather over mosquitos anyday, plus I love the fall…

gg here are my surprise yellows/oranges this year. These were supposed to be zinnias yet turned out to be Calendulas. I’m ok with it as they are blooming beautifully! First time growing these and I’m saving seeds to try again next year…

yes, calendulas are lovely, do not get mildew, and love cool weather. I thnk zinnias are best suited for hot climates where not much else survives the heat.

Everyone, your photos are fantastic!

GardenHo, that glorious light blue aster of yours, do you have a name? Here's my 'Violet Queen', shows lighter here than it really is, it has never performed better than this year with all the wet weather, shown is only a fraction of the plant.

Amaranthus 'Pygmy Torch' is stunning, I gave it two round of pruning to maintain compact as desired, LOVE this plant!

A grouping of 'Sun Seekers' echinacea

A nice rose seedling of mine that is hardy as can be, I must do some breeding work with this beauty.

I love when nature plays its surprises, my orange potentilla has produced a mutated stem in which displays creamy peachy pink blooms that darken with age, colors are richer than shown here, I've layered the branch to have it going on its own next year, can't wait to see how it develops!

FB sorry I dont know the name. I’ve planted so many throughout the years and this one has been an old faithful. Yours is a beauty too and I love those sunseekers!

It surprises me that some of my summer bloomers are still going strong, like Going Bananas daylily, which has bloomed continuously from late June, and also this clem, which has put out sporadic blooms all summer and is still looking pretty good!!

'Dahlia 'American Dawn' taking over the front veranda, a whopping 7 ft tall and that without even a single feeding!

'Love & Peace' and 'Savoy Hotel' .... these are said to be a bit more on the hardy side, though I find most "tender" roses will survive and thrive this far north when planted deeply and given a quick hill up with soil just prior to ground freeze up. I intend to add more roses as they certainly give so much over a long season.

GardenHo, your blue aster certainly is a beauty whatever it might be! Lovemycorgi, ahhh, those late clematis blooms are so welcome! :)

As for calendulas, really do enjoy the cheerful flowers, though the first things to be afflicted with aster yellows and gets spreads around the garden from there, really hate seeing the expensive and susceptible echinacea coming down with it!

Oh wow good to know FB. I think I’ll pass on saving the seeds then, thanks.

Beautiful dahlia and wow is that tall!! Your roses are pretty too. I’m too wimpy to grow roses with the exception of the fairy rose…hate those darn thorns!

GH, due to torrential rains, awful high humidity and bugger mosquitoes, I hadn't noticed several badly diseased calendulas. Only last year, I commented on not having rise of aster yellows in years, should have kept quiet! As for roses, you're the wise one, I have a hate for anything fiercely thorny, roses and berberis in particular with their hypodermic needles! Doing my bit of rose breeding, it's not uncommon to dig and cull 30 - 50 rose to haul off to the burn pile, wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow of the dried dead canes, the things always have a way of coming back and catching upon my shirt sleeve to snare into my flesh ... yes, I do question why I grow the prickly beasts!

I grow 'The Fairy' as well, such a hardy performer with thin sharp thorns!

September Charm and Persicaria Golden Arrows:

FB I forgot about my cute little tea roses.. loved so much I bought more the following season, certainly nothing to fear lol…

Favorite Mum

Almost October and not many days left for flowers to strut their stuff before frost.

Think will try more hibiscus next year, had some good blooms and many more had struggled to open, though decent enough success, these really do like it warm!

GH, many of the miniature roses are surprisingly hardy even wayyy up north here, I have a nice red one, though the deer nipped the final blooms coming along. Cute rose you have there btw and wonderful mums!

Froze Budd - I’m glad you had some success with the hardy hibiscuses! Most of mine are finished for the season, although one still had a blossom this morning…! I hope yours returns next spring - they are very late to start growing so don’t give up too early. I always leave a few inches of stem when I cut them down - just so I don’t forget where they are in the spring:-) l hope you continue to have luck with seedlings.

peren.all your triloba is gorgeous! I always sow some of this and I'm still waiting for it to really take off and reseed on its own.

@diggerdee zone 6 CT give it 2 or 3 years and it will then be around 'forever' :).

'peren', I am tres jealous of your actaea. A couple of years ago I was on a jag with these plants. I think I have 3 or 4 and just meh so far (but I do recall they take a bit of time to establish themselves.)

(I now recall having planted 'Cheju-Do' years back but it clearly did not survive :( ).

Our Mystic Illusion dahlia today:

There is still so much color in the garden. The purlane are hanging on, the dahlias are thriving.

Woody, this hibiscus is planted along a garden walkway where I'll be eager, yet patient to monitor its spring awakening, it should be rather more vigorous and hopefully a bit earlier to flower in year two.

Rouge, your actaea just haven't performed all that well or? I've had several over the years, though with me and my moving of plants around, I've inadvertently killed a few, though a friend again passed one along and this time I WILL take good care, lol,

Getgoing, great dahlias there!

@FrozeBudd_z3/4, I saw a stand of some actaea maybe 3 years ago and it was stunning. at least 3 feet high foliage with at least 1 foot tall flowers....it was amazing.

getgoing your balcony is lovely!

:)

Dee

At this time of year the stars in my garden are my hardy fuchsia. After a week of cloudy & some rain, yesterday was a lovely sunny one though cooler than our average but still low 70’s. More rain coming.

And of course I love my no care dwarf french marigolds!

At this time of year my hardy fuchsia are the stars in my yard. I & my hummingbirds love them!

Of course, I do love my carefree Dwarf French Marigolds too & some of my Coral Bells are as colorful as blooms!

Hello 'KW', your post reminded me of something that I saw this past late August when I was out on Vancouver Island (BC Canada). I saw fuchsia everywhere (unlike in my much colder Ontario where one sees only tender fuschia in containers.)

Yes @rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a) hardy fuchsia does very well here in Vancouver, WA too! Same kind of weather - maybe we get hotter in summer. All of my fuchsia have been in ground more than 8 years now & have gone through some hard winters & lived to bloom another day.

ETA: I see my post is duplicated - sorry! I can’t delete the pictures only the words. It hadn’t posted first try so I split it up - or tried to,

Here’s some of mine:

Thanks, Dee. I have been gardening on this balcony for 7 years now. It's a source of joy.

KW PNW, beautiful fuchsias. I am a bit envious. I struggle to keep my fuchsias alive through the summer (they overwinter fine indoors through the winter). I haven't yet grown a hardy one.

djacob, nice combination. I have the red begonia I spy next to the yellow one. It hasn't really grown much at all through the entire season for some reason...I love the dark patterned leaves on it. Your scabiosa is huge and obviously very happy.

@diggerdee zone 6 CT I kept meaning to refer to the Rudbeckia triloba. I would have said exactly what rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a) did!

rouge the funny thing is that Actaea is only on its 2nd year. I have others decades old that are not nearly as happy. Clearly that one is getting just the right amount of sun/shade & moisture. I should move my others that are not so happy!

Miscanthus 'Strictus'.

Monkshood in the corner that took a lot of damage in the April ice storm. Embarrassing area.

Sedum Autumn Joy. These picks were taken a couple of days ago in Sept.

rouge the funny thing is that Actaea is only on its 2nd year.

I guess it sounds petty to be jealous of your success ;).

Amazing 'peren' !

Great pics all of "you"...very impressive September displays.

"I guess it sounds petty to be jealous of your success ;)."

Lol rouge. Well count me as petty because I envy your gorgeous Hibiscus among many others. I try not to have zone envy as it is pointless.... but I sometimes do!

your gorgeous Hibiscus

Too kind 'peren'....but funny you mention this as today I think it might be its last flower of 2023.

Here it was on August 1 with its first flower:

A little over 3 weeks later (August 24) it was in its peak phase:

And today, October 6 might be its last flower: