My Little Garden 10th September 2022
We’ve had lots of rain this week and very welcome it’s been, especially as most of it has fallen overnight. The grass is green, the plants are looking much happier, and no watering watering duties are required.
I’ll be brief and jump straight into my six, following another busy week in which I went to see a sub-tropical garden and was gifted a Tetrapanax. That should be interesting in #mylittlegarden ….. eek!
- Pyracantha
Lets start the ‘six’ with some autumnal looking Pyracantha berries. It’s always best to photograph these before the blackbirds decide to eat them.
2. Verbena and butterfly
September is usually the time when the Red Admiral butterflies appear in the garden and this year is no exception.
3. Yellow
Anthemis ‘E.C. Buxton’ is having it’s second go at flowering after a ‘Tatton Chop’ (July RHS show rather than the May RHS show).
4. Japanese Anemone
I think this is probably a ‘Hadspen Abundance’ of which I removed a large clump earlier this year to make way for a new tree. Happily I still have a few left and they don’t seem to have been as badly affected by the heat as Pamina.
5. Aster
One of my favourites: Aster amellus ‘Veilchenkönigin’
6. Cosmos
This is one that self seeded from last year. I’m not sure how it survived initially as I usually weed things out before I realise what they are, and I’ve never actually had one self seed before. It also suffered a second trauma when one of it’s stems partially snapped.
Miraculously it also survived this serious injury, and is now a plant with a combination of vertical and horizontal stems that hold a very welcome late show of flowers.
And that’s it for the second week in September. A week which will go down in the history books as one in which the arrival of a new Prime Minister was overshadowed by the sad death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Thank you for reading and have a great weekend.
