Love the big bell flowers.

KL,I dont dead head any of my cone flowers ,well at the end of fall maybe a little so I dont Get Millions of sprouts...The Birds really love them ..Finches are loving them right now. Im just getting a few New rudbeckias going now ..an I have some I just love, I need to ID them ..LOL..

OhTamara! Is your liatris still blooming? Mine was done a couple weeks ago already. My Viburnum shrub has berries on it turning red already. Last year they weren't turning red in August! What does this mean? An early fall, maybe? Course last year the birds didn't leave them on the shrub long enough to get red. Or maybe it just didn't mature enough. I don't know. I don't remember ever having any red berries on it. Monster white brugmansia is in bloom. I've got pictures, just not on this new laptop. Haven't gotten quite that far yet to figure pics out on here.

I forgot to show off my reblooming iris.Twiggi

The viburnum with the berries starting to red

That really means fall is comming
Here are some from today.
http://smilebox.com/playBlog/4...

I was afraid someone would say that. I'm not ready to fall-ize my sun room for all the plants I winter over....... I want to use it yet for other things. But I should look at this as an early warning and get crack on the stuff I want to get done BEFORE that..................

No sense in putting it off.CeCe.
I always do off season things if I have time and am really glad hen the time comes I have a space all ready.

I cannot believe it's almost a new month again! Where does the time go??

It's a bit cooler here but warming up again into the mid-90's by the end of the week ... and still too dry. I sound like a broken record. Sigh!

Only 2 1/2" of rain with hurricane Irene. We have had enough water. Had a small session for weed pulling today & found it tiring.

Weeds come out easier with wet soil.Specially crab grass.

cece ,I just took this photo an hour ago...its already starting

Steam rising off the lake across the road,didnt realize how much color has started to happen,till I saw this... wowser..

OH no my Liatris are finished was just showing 1 of my new Favs... Dont ask what it is tho...

terracotta pots starting to look good,hope they winter well..


Tee sent me some of these


Ck this out growing right up through the asphault how did that happen

Those things will grow anywhere. You know it was bad enough when the birds would plant sun flower seeds for me, never knew where they would come up. This year I am overwhelmed with tiny not so big not so sturdy plants all over the place. Seems later June? my hubby decided to plant sun flower seeds ALL OVER THE PLACE. I have them growing in every single bed I have and then other places........................Now I like sun flowers as much as the next person, but everything has its own place..........sunflowers in the roses, in my iris, in my lilies, in shrubs is not MY idea of their own place.. Have to make him a place all his own for his sunflowers, peppers and maybe then he'll leave my gardens alone.

for sure

September is here, here is a new thread:

The thread "Show us your Cottage Garden & Chat (September 2011)" in Cottage Gardening forum