Top Ten September Blooms.

As readers of my blog will recognise I make new areas in my garden all the metre and the lawn gets ever smaller . For my September blooms I am go to feature industrial plant in my newest crushed rock gardens ; one created last summertime and the latest dating from in the beginning this twelvemonth . Both are already looking well established . Many of the plants have been blooming for historic period and are still count good .

Whilst I was in Greece latterly I noticedVitex agnus castusgrowing untamed in abundance in a range of mountains of colours from purpleness to pink . I was amused to see it grow around the monastery at Mystras . The fruit used to be jazz as ‘ Monk ’s Pepper ’ or ‘ Chaste Berry ’ as in the Middle Ages it was take to boil down the male libido , so it must have been ready to hand to have it growing around the monastery . Here it is in my garden . It has bespeak palmate leaves which are aromatic and raceme of blossom which attract butterfly .

Vitex agnus castus

Vitex agnus castus

Another bee and butterfly magnet is the shrubCoryopteris x clandonensis‘Pink Perfection ’ . Coryopteris is usually seen in pulverization gloomy but I am rather tender of this pale pinkish one . It is still very young but when it grow it should hit about 4 foot .

Caryopteris clandonensisx ‘ Pink Perfection ’

Years ago I sawIndigofera pendula growing in the later Bernard Ticker ’s wonderful garden , Fuller ’s Mill in Norfolk . I have been looking for it ever since because it is much more showy than the usualIndigofera heterantha . It has long swing raceme of pinkish prime . I get hold one for sales event at the amazing garden at East Ruston Vicarage .

Vitex agnus castus

Indigofera pendula

It wait great withAngelonia ‘ Raspberry ’ .

Here it is growing withSalvia ‘ Wishes and Kisses ’

I love this salvia and it blossom for so long .

Salvia‘Love and Wishes ’

Nearby in this unexampled bed I have a gorgeous pink scabious which has been blooming for week . It is calledScabiosaincisa‘Kudos Pink ’ . It is a new change with larger flowers than usual .

Vitex agnus castus

Scabiosa incisa‘Kudos Pink ’

I also have a new agastache calledAgastache‘Kudos Yellow ’ which is big and bushy . I have never establish agastache to be very hardy but they are prosperous from cuttings . They are deliciously redolent .

Agastache‘Kudos Yellow ’

Vitex agnus castus

Agastache ‘ Kudos Yellow ’ look good with the silver leaves and red flowers ofZauschneria californica .

This has been bloom all the month whilst I was aside and it should go on into the fall .

Zauschneria californica

Caryopteris clandonensisx ‘Pink Perfection’

Some of the plants in here are annual like this pretty spicy phlox . At least that is what I think it is . I usually make a inclination of all the seeds I buy but I do n’t seem to have a record of this and I lost the label . Any suggestions ?

Phlox

plant do so well in gravel and they sow enthusiastically too . bee and butterfly love the flowers I have in these gravel beds .

Indigofera pendula

Leaving the crushed rock garden for a minute I would care to boast two September mounter , One is an annual which grows immense and speedily covers the fence . It is the cup and saucer vine , Cobaea scandens . It is loose from seed . It usually add up in pale purple but I wish the livid figure .

Cobaea scandens‘Alba ’

I also love the masses of little bells of the previous floweringClematis rehdriana . They are primrose lily-livered .

Clematis rehdriana

And now I have to add just one more to make it ten and it is hard to know what to take . This yr I have n’t mentioned asters or colchicums or cylcamen although I screw them and have them all over the garden . But I have sport them in late years . So I will end up with a unadulterated whiteHesperantha coccinea‘Alba’which charm my eye this morning as it is all spangled with raindrop .

Hesperantha coccinea‘Alba ’

Indigofera pendula

Next meter I will sport my alien garden which is calculate wonderful right now and has looked great for workweek . It is clock time it gets a mention , in fact it deserves a post of it its own . In the meantime it would be great if you could share some of your favourite September blooms .

34 Responses toTop Ten September Blooms.

bully plectron ! Caryopteris is one of my favorites for downfall colour .

Who needs lawn ? ! I bang all the soft blues in your September garden . I planted the same Vitex from a 4 - inch Mary Jane almost on the nose 2 years ago . The industrial plant is still very modest and has n’t bloomed but it ’s made it through 2 summers now so I ’ve got hope that it ’ll affect me one day . There ’s no sign of the blue flowers that usually grace my garden in the fall yet , Barleria obtusa and Plectranthus ciliatus ‘ Zulu Wonder ’ , but I ’m watching for them .

I love how gravel sets off plant life — peradventure because I ’m from the Golden State ( Calif ) I ’ve always prefer it to the putting surface of lawn for frame plant . So many beautiful plants , include that amazing clematis . Your minuscule risque phlox remind me of the annual Viscaria oculata aka German catchfly , so that ’s my surmise .

Salvia‘Love and Wishes’

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Top Ten September Blooms.