What's Looking Good in September 2024

[Meadowlark]

 

[Sheal]

Ooooo love that blue rose @Tetters! Can I have the name of it please, as I don't suppose @Zigs knows?

 

[Tetters]

Ooooo love that blue rose @Tetters! Can I have the name of it please, as I don't suppose @Zigs knows?

If I remember rightly, it's called Rhapsody in Blue - it was the rhs rose of the year in 2003.

 

[Tetters]

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Is that first picture Thyrsacanthus @Meadowlark ?

 

[Zigs]

 

[Meadowlark]

Is that first picture Thyrsacanthus @Meadowlark ?

Yes, but we call it firespike here.

 

[Meadowlark]

 

[Zigs]

 

[Meadowlark]

 

[Zigs]

Bulbine frutescens

 

[Anniekay]

 

[Zigs]

Hedge Flower

 

[Tetters]

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These are pretty, and grow well from seed don't they Annie. Do yours survive the winter? If we wanted to grow Thunbergia here we would have to treat them as annuals, which is why there are none in my
garden...........yet.

Hedge Flower

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Rosa rugosa

 

[Anniekay]

These are pretty, and grow well from seed don't they Annie. Do yours survive the winter? If we wanted to grow Thunbergia here we would have to treat them as annuals, which is why there are none in my
garden...........yet.

Yes, the frost kills them and they are a little slow to start, so I start them inside then plant out. But, once they get a foothold, they grow like crazy. There is actually more of them on the other side of the fence covering the ground and scrambling over the dusty millers and up my tea olive bushes. I only planted 3 plants a foot apart.

 

[Zigs]

Another hedge flower

 

[Tetters]

Another hedge flower

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The tattered remainder of a clematis armandii and sure sign of autumnal weather!