Too many Verbena bonariensis ;)

I wish I could wave a magic wand and make the heliopsis 'burning hearts' hang out with the sanguisorba officinalis , maybe I'll do some moving around (adding it to the to do list)

the heliopsis are 2nd years I think, so they'll hopefully become bushier

We talked about this one earlier, anemonopsis macrophylla, it's blooming the best it ever has for me - I got down to the ground to try to catch its nodding blooms

Veronicastrum is doing well- it flops and moose eat it but, oh well, I really like it anyway.

Large (larger than intended) drifts of Japanese Aster (with a single knautia poking through) and very profuse Sweet Autumn clematis planted just this Spring.

Love that Caryopteris "lw". I have often thought of including one in our garden but I dont think I have a full sun location...maybe a container...hmm.

Andropogon gerardii 'Blackhawks' with Gomphrena ’Fireworks’

"Jeana" Phlox is very long flowering

My black box native garden

Flat-top White Aster, Doellingeria umbellata

Horsetail Milkweed, Asclepias subverticillata

This is a native Plantago rugelii. It resembles the non native common Plantago major.

Pokeweed why not?

Great Blanketflower and Scarlet Cypress Vine 🔥

Brown Eyed Susans and Decurrent False Aster, Boltonia decurrens

Tall Thistle. Native and not prickly. Cirsium altissimum

Ashy Sunflower

Frostweed, Verbesina virginica.

Pink Turtlehead, Chelone obliqua

Wild Quinine and Ohio Spiderwort

Bluebill blooming all season.

Showy Goldenrod

White Flowered Goldenrod, Solidago ptarmicoides

Smooth Blue Aster, Symphyotrichum laeve

A Jerusalem Artichoke in flower.

Great Blue Lobelia

Wingstem, Verbesina alternifolia

Goldenaster, Chrysopsis mariana

A possible hybrid of Ipomoea pandurata x Ipomoea lucanosa?

Palafoxia callosa. Very hard to photograph

Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides

The dry loving sneezeweed and pavement dweller Helenium amarum

Aromatic Aster

Silky Aster. Gorgeous silver foliage. Loves dry soil. My favorite aster.❤️

Salvia azurea. I was happy to see this vollunteer.

Carolina Elephants Foot, Elephantopus caroliniana

Hmmm, had given up on asters (and heleniums) but am now inclined to look a little harder at a coupla varieties...although I am already feeling a trifle stressed out by the insane number of currently homeless plantlets still awaiting a permanent home...somewhere.

Agreed that helianthus‘Sunshine Daydream’ is a stunner in the garden. I got a clip at a plant sale years ago and it’s the gift that keeps on giving - a long blooming showstopper. A dahlia look with no need to stake. Unfortunately, I don’t think the pollinators are overly crazy for it - just my personal non-scientific observation. I was surprised when you mentioned having mildew issues - this has never happened at all for me with this plant. Here’s a picture of one of my clumps (in need of some deadheading)…

My very untidy pollinator bed.

Salvia azurea

Decurrent False Aster and Aromatic Aster

Aromatic Aster

Smooth Blue Aster with Little Bluestem Grass

Regular and white flowered Silky Aster.

Wonderful pictures, all. Some of my pics might be from August but pretty recent. I just got them out of my camera.

My wild area of annuals..the marigolds came up on their own.

Tithonia plant...has been going strong for quite awhile

Pentas

Peppermint China rose...blooms are about dime or nickel sized.

Gomphrena Las Vegas mix and profusion zinnia apricot

My rose seedling blooming just recently...I named it Brennan's Rose for my grandson.

It is an open pollinated seedling of Comtesse de Provence, a coral rose. This one is as fragrant as the parent, and smells like ripe pears and peaches. The plant is healthy and strong and rebloom good.

Seems like it got a touch of the peachy / coral tones in it.

Zinnia Zahara double salmon

Clematis, Sweet Autumn

Erasmus your tithonia and gomphrena are lovely! My tithonia didn't do so well this year, and I didn't sow any gomphrena this season, for the first time in about 15 years.

Love the Brennan rose. My grandmother's family name was Brennan, and I wanted to name my daughter that, after her, but my husband didn't like it as a first name. I think it's wonderful, although I may be biased. :)

If you ever patent that rose, let me know! I'll be first in line to buy one in honor of my grandmother! (Even though she loved *yellow* roses haha!)

:)

Dee

Wow everyone, gorgeous! I completely missed out on Aug. where there were so many beauties. On to Sept.

Miscanthus purpurascens with Vernonia c. 'Mammuth' peeking in from the left. I should have cleaned my lens!

Anemone 'Robustissima'

Sanguisorba tenuifolia 'Alba'

Eutrochium 'Gateway' with Miscanthus & rudbeckia triloba

Chrysanthemum 'Clara Curtis'

A few more.

Actaea 'Brunette'. I am so mad at myself, I lost track of time for spraying and the deer got most of the buds, grrr.

Digitalis 'Arctic Fox Rose' has been blooming such a long time. Paired with Persicaria 'Firetail'

Helianthus 'Lemon Queen'

Actaea japonica 'Cheju-Do'

Crocosmia 'Lucifer'. The main bloom has been done for a while but noticed this yesterday.

Delphinium 'Double Innocence' re-blooming.

Sorghastrum nutans 'Indian Steel'. I am working on this area and should probably have waited to take the pic but it was dark by the time I finished digging in front and mulching.

Thank you, diggerdee. These are the first blooms on the Brennan rose. Usually the blooms improve as the plant matures. I think it'll be a good one. The buds start out a pretty yellow. I'm not going to patent it but plan to sell it when I get some cuttings rooted.

Markay, you have a good stand of gomphrena Fireworks. I tried that one and liked it but didn't get a good colony of it. It did reseed for a couple of years. I am very late to trying gomphrena. I think I had no luck with it a long time ago. Then a year or two ago I tried seed and got plants but something looked unhealthy about the leaves for awhile. Then it resolved and they ended up doing well. So tried again this year. I like the purple ones a lot. What tough plants they are!

They are not all technically perennials in my zone but i have had them for several years, so..Westerplatte, jasmine grandiflorum, and dahlias, which have only just started doing their thing.

'Robert Alagna' is a vigorous growing rose, beautifully fragrant as well.

Dahlia Go-Go Orange has amazing flower power, the plant carries 50 blooms!

Close up perfection!

Amazing dahlias, all. Robert Alagna looks like a beauty . I wonder if Palatine will offer it this year. Is it hardy in the ground in zone 3 - 4 ?

Dahlia Go-Go Orange is amazing!

here is my unnamed Dahlia bought from Costco a few year ago

I fell in love with blanket flowers this year

Grape Sensation is a beautiful monster

The true blue

I really like this Aconite and hope it will come back next year

Happy autumn gardening

Amazingly, my gold woodland foxglove is flowering - titanotrichum oldhamii - but is going to one of the offspring as I have not enjoyed anxiously hovering over it, ensuring it stays moist enough to flower (it didn't last year). Perenne - I have digitalis foxlighta 'Ruby Glow' (with some trepidation as digiplexus have been a bit iffy) and, on the strength of your post, have just ordered arctic fox rose (I really cannot get enough of foxgloves and foxglove adjacent blooms)...although my digitalis obscura is still not flowering. I have hopes that digitalis x fulva performs better, in the longer run, than the lovely, but unreliable d x valinii.

Some very inspiring pictures (hangs head in shame again). Well done, everyone (especially the orange fans amongst us).

Cheers, Camps.

Erasmus, 'Robert Alagna' came through a phenomenal bitter cold January when others had succumb, my part of Canada having received an arctic blast like I have not experienced in 40 years! Tender roses I plant with graft about 3 inches down and deeply mound with soil for the winter, I shall switch to using leaves as I believe it better insulates. 'Robert Alagna' retained some live wood and grows vigorously and healthy, it rates highly for fragrance, though I wouldn't say individual blooms are particularly long lasting, a keeper just the same.

Getgoing, your balcony always amazes with amount of color and fullness of plants! I spy a orange dahlia in there, would you happen to know the variety name? Yes, Rosa, I love those orange and salmon colored blooms! I should get more into foxglove, just have the very dependable 'Foxy' about the place, sow once and will never be without! Also, have 'Pink Panther', flowers a very long time with strong branching, though is sterile that seeds always must be purchased.

Forever-a-newbie, that unnamed dahlia of yours! ... as well I love the plumbago and blanket flower, I need to grow more of those!

Thank you, Frozenbudd. The "orange" dahlia was part of 3 pack mix and was labelled "dahlia akita." When i look online, the images are not quite what mine looks like. However, the color is quite variable and can be a dark orange red, especially on the underside and fades with age and or less sunny conditions to a more yellowish. Mine aren't getting any direct sunlight anymore so i would not be surprised if they look a completely different color in a sunny location. Here are some close up pics. They look suspiciously similar to Go Go Orange that you posted.

Yes, I had been thinking that your dahlia sure does resemble 'Go-Go Orange' ... it's the clear winner of the four of the series I'm growing. 'Akita', I had for several years and being a much different flower upon a stout upright plant. The stems on all 'Go-Go's' are very short with some blooms tucked into the foliage, the orange is though among the best of all dahlias I've grown.

Wow such great blooms and such great photos!

peren.all for the life of me I don't know why I don't have a Clara Curtis mum. I've been wanting one for years so why the heck don't I just get it lol? It always seems to slip to the bottom of the list! And then I see folks post their pics here and I'm jealous lol.

getgoing, I read through this thread this morning but didn't have time to post. I was originally just going to ask you if you had a name for that big yellow dahlia, but now seeing the pics you added of the orange one - WOW. It's gorgeous and I actually like how it varies so much. Just beautiful. You ARE going to overwinter the tubers, right?? :)

FB as usual I am in awe of your garden. And loving the salmon/peachy/apricot theme in your last post lol. That rose is gorgeous. The color is so lovely. As I've posted before, I've killed more roses than most people have in their gardens lol, and after that I stayed away for years. I bought a rose or two last year and now I feel myself on that slippery slope lol. But I do have some more sun in my yard now due to some trees being taken down....

erasmus thanks for that further info. It's a lovely rose with a lovely name and I hope it does well for you!

:)

Dee

Camps it will be grand for you to have Digitalis 'AFR'. It is always great when another member can report on progress. I planted mine late last fall and I am very impressed so far. I have grown D. grandiflora for decades, just adore that pale yellow.

Yes, Dee just get Chrysanthemum 'Clara Curtis'! It is the most carefree and reliable plant you could ever grow.

Frozebbudd, yes, these grow on shortish stems (darl foliage and dark red/burgundy stems that show in the leaved as well) and the goliage do outgrow the growing buds at times.

Diggerdee, the yellow one is called Kelvin Floodlight. I like how large the flowrrs can get on a very small plant. And yes, i overwinter the tubers. This is my 3rd year of growing this lot.

I have several polygonatums but this time of year all but one has their foliage shredded. It is "Double Stuff".

THE STILL LIVING:

Tricyrtis ”Jim’s Tall Towers” better tolerance for dryness ; stems dont defoliate

like so many other trycirtis do by early autumn

Cimigifuga: only one out of 8 to bloom during drought. it is closest to the hose

my favorite polygonatum :Grace Barker. Slow disorderly grower. It goes in any direction it pleases

Still fresh and green. But what is it?

two flowers at tip of stem; assertive spreader;

Fall crocus; past their freshness date. i learned chochicum has been used for centuries to reduce inflammation and pain from gout and the rheumatic pseudo gout. it is still the first line of treatment

THE WATER DEPRIVED I JUST CANT DRAG THE HOSES AROUND AND CHECK THEM NIGHT AND DAY

Birch

viburnum tomentosem #1

viburnum tomentosem #2 there are 5 more gasping for water

New york ironweed

So dessicated i dont know what these were

so sad

off topic but a happier note in early August; phlox ”Jeana” the plant evaluations are true: butterflies love it! i was digging the hole for it and monarchs flew across the yard to feed.

Marie it has been very dry here too, leaves are falling like crispy critters. Your happy plants look great. I think your unknown could be a Maianthemum perhaps M. stellatum.

@Marie Tulin Boston burbs z 6a I do sympathize lots with your dry conditions :(. Except for Sept, we have had oodles of rain and yet still I complained to my partner anytime I didn't see rain in the forecast.

I too like 'Jeana' phlox. It is in a rough area of the garden but does just fine. I sometimes wonder why certain plants in the same genus ie "phlox" seem to attract more pollinators than others.

it has been very dry here too

'peren.all' havent you had lot of rain all season, except for September? (And now we are getting lots of moisture now...this week...you too? (fingers crossed))

Anemone ("September Charm"?) and Persicari "Golden Arrows"

Ugh, Marie, I'm so sorry for your thirsty plants! I didn't realize you were so dry there. I was looking through some old photos and found some of similar conditions in my garden in August 2022. Things I swore were dead. Luckily most of them lived.

We had so much rain here the last month or so (Lots of it on one day! So much so that the town over from me was declared a federal emergency area. Something like 18-20 inches in 6-8 hours. Crazy.) And then for the last six weeks or so, nothing. Last week we had three straight days of rain forecast and not a drop. The weather has overall been really beautiful, but we do need some rain. I have a well so I have to be mindful of how much I water.

:)

Dee

Yes, maiathemum stellatum

Mbg states it is intolerant of dryness. you coulda fooled me. It is the freshest plant around

I know it isn't in full bloom but I post this picture of this Monkshood only because it is starting to bloom very early. I never see this "Bi-Colour" opening till into October.

Yes rouge rain was perfectly timed & plentiful until mid August but very dry now. Chance of rain is 90% overnight into tomorrow. I will believe it when I see it.

Thanks Dee for the compliment, I'm always having fun in the garden! This summer the weather was amazing, literally only four days in which I was not out there due to inclement conditions, the rest pretty well textbook phenomenal with high temperatures, glorious low humidity and very few mosquitoes, only did suffer from lack of rain, but just enough to keep things from being frustrated fried up. I did a vast amount of digging, dividing and resetting, am sure have placed 150 or more divisions and having purchased very many upright junipers, cedars and a few choice conifers. Conifers are something I haven't paid nearly enough attention to, though made a count that over the years have planted 85 or 90, and recently was nice to hear a friend say "Ohhh, Terry, just look at all your conifers!" The growing season is short and I dislike looking at a bare slate when all has been frosted and carted off to the compost, thus the conifers keep the interest going and of course are the bones of the garden. I still have some beds to fill, though am getting there, next year "maybe" I'll post some wide angle photos.

Hey @Jay 6a Chicago, I thought this might be of interest to you....

I'm not sure how I only noticed this way late blooming of one of our Ipomopsis. Here it is today:

This is two months past when I usually see such these plants flower. Specifically back on July 23 I had

@rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a), I also like monkshood.

It is super toxic I understand. This is my first year growing it. I hope it will come back next year

@Marie Tulin Boston burbs z 6a, You said your noid plant has 2 flowers at the ends of the stems. Maianthemum stellatum has a panical with several flowers. Could your plant be Disporum smilacinum? Uvularia puberula is also similar looking?

Disporum smilacinum

DD

Jay, thanks for catching that. ( what does DD stand for?)i saw the discrepancy too and didnt take the time to go back and figure it out. I have maiathemum stellatum and know what it looks like. it is not uvularia which i have; it is more upright and distinctly yellow flowered. I thought my unknown had two delicate flowers at the end of the stalk of compound leaves.N Now im not sure if it was one or two. (It is not really unknown to me but its name is forgotten) It is not showy but it is distinctive. Im annoyed but not surprised Ive forgotten its name, ill look at your photos and refresh my memory.

Got it! Disporum sessile

sorry trouble copying link to MBG which has a good description

(missouri botanical garden)

@Marie Tulin Boston burbs z 6a. The DD was a typo. Does Yellow Fairybells ring any bells? It's the native Prosartes/Disporum lanuginosa. There's also native Rose Twisted-stalk, Streptopus lanceolatus.

Prosartes/Disporum lanuginosa.

Streptopus lanceolatus, Rose Twisted-stalk