Looking good Charlie !!

Thanks, Mike.

There's likely some duplication here from the previous post, but the pictures were taken yesterday.



Have a lot of 'Nora Leigh' (as said); nice shape for the height).
(Mike, looking out for more 'Shockwave' too.)



Have Helenium fully out ('Flammenspiel' with 'Double Trouble' behind).
The drought; probably not the easiest year for Helenium.



Great year for all our purple coneflowers.
Love this 'Adobe Orange' purchased this year.



My favourite fern, Athyrium 'Ghost'.



More repair work; just added Brunnera 'Looking Glass' and Primula (Supernova Mix) for next spring
and Veronica 'First Lady' and garden phlox 'Glamour Girl' and 'Bright Eyes' for next summer.

Over the last couple of years have been finding the First series Veronica bloom, with deadheading, a long time.
They also don't tend to need support.



Couple of pictures from the only other garden which I planted (15 years ago) and still maintain.
Garden phlox: mostly Flame Purple (still first bloom there): Geranium 'Rozanne'.



Helenium 'Sonnenwunder'.
Short for the cultivar: probably mostly due to the confined area it's planted in.

I put in 3 Glamour Girl phlox last year. They are awesome this year.Phlox started blooming early this year. Many are still looking good.

I put in some Adobe Orange, too. It is a long bloomer. I also love it. I put it by a grape bee balm. I'm already harvesting seeds from my adobe orange plants.

Ughhh. Just read they don't come true to seed.

Charlie both of those variegated phlox are on my must have list. Flame Purple is the first phlox to bloom here also. Three to four week's at least ahead of the others

I really like 'Glamour Girl' too, Gary.
It's a bit taller than the other newer garden phlox I've put in.
Along with it being completely self-supporting it forms nice (may be the word is) stands.
And I've found it really is quite mildew resistant.

What I found too, about Sombrero Adobe Orange, Lindsay.
Also as you found out, the members of the Sombrero series are hybrids and even if they had viable seeds, seedlings wouldn't be expected to come true.
At the level of wholesale, the Sombrero series are propagated by tissue culture.

Interesting about Flame Purple, Mike.
The Flame garden phlox are among the earlier bloomers here too and several (as said) have so far proven good second bloomers after deadheading.
I'm wondering whether the earlier flowering garden phlox are generally better second flowerers (with deadheading) than later.
Thinking also that there may be a number of factors influencing the occurrence, or the extent, of a second bloom on a garden phlox.

Things continuing to thin out but still have second blooms on garden phlox, etc. and also beginning to get fall perennials blooming (e.g. New England asters).

Sept 10.









Was in the Muskoka Lakes for a few days;
The large bulk of garden perennials which we saw there, still in bloom, were orange coneflower, purple coneflower and garden phlox.
Port Carling.



Outhouse plant (Rudbeckia lanciniata 'Hortensia') outside the Port Carling museum.

Very nice Charley. That outhouse Rudbeckia is the one I grow here. It does extremely well but get top heavy when all those blooms get bigger and the rain and the storm forces it to lean over. Does well with staking. Planted several by the back fence last fall. They looked amazing this summer.

Found I had to stake those I planted too, Mike.

Doing serious cutting back and also dividing, reducing and adding to maintain the perennial diversity.
Yesterday.






Garden phlox left; all second bloom.




Thought we'd lost my favourite Helenium ('Feuersiegal') and then found a surviving scrap.


The flowers of the magenta 'Alma Pötschke', in the front garden, closed (first cold day for months).
The pink perennial chrysanthemum is 'Clara Curtis'.

Beautiful pictures. One of my favorite summer followers is phlox. I have 2 plants, a pink and white. Would like to get other colors,
but all I seem to find is the same pink color I have and white.

Looking fantastic Charlie.
@Roper2008 you have to look online for a wider selection of Phlox. They are long blooming and nice.

Thanks,
As per Mike, Virginia.

We have about 30 different garden phlox cultivars at present.
Personally, I almost never buy plants on line, but am fortunate to live within easy driving range of a large number of garden centres.
I also visit garden centres when away, for instance, got our first 'Wendy House' in the excellent garden centre in Ambleside, West Vancouver.
That was while visiting relatives and the plants came back in my carry-on bag.

Have been on the look-out for garden phlox notably for the last 15 years; explains the considerable variety we have.

Am sure, however, location (and efficiency!) requires many gardeners to buy their plants on-line.

Picture below: this Sept 10; towards the end of the second bloom (I've already been cutting down that 'Wendy House' (left)).
As you'd likely know the first blooms of the garden phlox are more spectacular than the second.

Cutting back and less and less in the mixed perennial beds.
Main current flowerers are asters and Joe-Pye weed. Fall Monkshood not in flower yet.

Today.
Six foot pink New England aster.


Lots of 'Alma Pötschke.'


New York or dumosus-type 'Violet Carpet'.
(Just saw some more powdery mildew to cut out on garden phlox!).


Joe-Pye weed (or snakeroot) 'Chocolate'.


It's really nice to still have some garden phlox in (second) flower.
Seems to be ones in very favoured positions (sun, water).

Charlie the garden is still looking good.

Even less left now, Mike.
Big holes/gaps.

Pictures today:

It seems odd that, at this late date, two of the garden phlox 'Glamour Girl' still have presentable second blooms on them.
Am suspecting their precise locations may have contributed to this.





The snakeroot (Joe-Pye weed) 'Chocolate' is doing fine'.



The bees current love the smooth aster 'Bluebird'.



Of the New England Asters, the 'Alma Pötschke' is largely finished,
But the dwarf 'Purple Dome' has come into bloom.



A few of the spring Crescendo primulas have a single fall bloom.



The first fall monkshood 'Arendsii' to bloom.



Am slowly doing fall work on the garden, including taking some stock of especially the spring perennials.

Charlie A/P is done around here also. All my phlox are sleeping
Never tried Monkshood, look like a nice late blooming flower. Thanks for sharing.

Suspect you know, Mike, but monkshood is very poisonous.

Yesterday.
Things out from under and behind the taller perennials of summer.

Athyrium 'Ghost'


Dryopteris erthrosora 'Radiance'


Heuchera 'Mega Caramel'


Heucherella 'Brass Lantern'


Brunnera 'Silver Heart'


Pulmonaria 'Silver Bouquet'


Helleborus x ballardiae HGC 'Merlin'


Helleborus WJ 'Berry Swirl'

Charlie I read that somewhere in the past. I have other plants that are of the same fate.

Today (9 a.m.)





Melted by 11 a.m. and the first two weeks in November are potentially mild.
So maybe not quite the end!