Show Your Late Summer and Fall Treasures Here (2)

I hope no one minds, but I thought I'd start a new thread cuz the last one is taking a long to time to open. We came from Summer Flowers here http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/872450/

Here come the mums. Note the pathetic liatris in the background. I think it took a butt kicking from the cold snap in May. The white hasn't shown up at all (sob)

and snaps cuz I just luv them. This is the funkiest colour I've got this year.

Clematis serritafolia. I got this seedling 3 years ago and I never thought it would flower as it only gets a couple of hours of late day sun but Look! I will post another pick when its not in sunlight so you can see it better. It's very delicate and soft looking.

I think the mini roses have better colour when it starts to get cooler.

'Karl Forrester'.

This is what happens when you let the bronze marigolds run amok ^_^. This year I will be a good gardener deadhead the yellows so this patch stays bronze. There's a few funky blends in there though that are keepers I think

o ya balloons keep landing. I luv the balloons.

Thanks, DN for starting a new thread. It is just necessary after a while. And thanks also for all those lovely photos. Snaps of a very cool color, mums, and a liatris that doesn't look bad to me. It just can't compete with all those brightly colored mums. I want some liatris myself. It is native to our town. I just need to plant it because it hasn't popped up on its own.
Your clematis is lovely and so are your roses, marigolds and baloon flowers. I really enjoy the onslaught of photos. It is so close to that despicable time of no flowers!

Okay, okay...so here's another...Echinacea Green Jewel...

Here are my Panicum 'Cloud Nine'... looking like fireworks. Agastache 'Black Adder' in the rear to the right with Caryopteris to the left.

Oh- those are nice edder.

Here you can see more of the purple color on the grass blooms...

My butterfly bush was blooming in three colors. It was supposed to be purple. I didn't like that so I cut the pink out last year. Now I like the white/purple combo going on... seems like the white will dominate in the end.

Here is a Rose of Sharon in the same bed...

Caryopteris too...

I have found small flowers like penstemon very difficult to photograph. This one came out though... 'Red Rocks'.

Not a bloom but cool anyways... castor bean.

This is the backside of my 'Moulin Rouge' sunflower. It has more yellow back there lately. Go figure!

Oh guys, you have so many beauties. I need to plant more late season flowers!

Late season is my favorite time (mostly cuz its dahlia time). I just luv grasses. I totally need more full sun space. Perhaps downsizing the house is in order? How fast does the 'Cloud Nine' spread Plutodrive? I put 'green jewel' on my seed list. Great idea to put against the blue spruce Edder. I looks so limey against the blue. Did I mention I tried rudbeckia 'green wizard? Don't go there. Boring, boring, boring. Plutodrive that butterfly bush is just plain funky weird. I didn't know they did that.

dahlianut the grass doesn't spread as like an invasive one would. It isn't pokey though. This one is going to be huge... supposed to hit 7-8'. Those are 2 year old plants from 4" pots. They are over 4' tall now. I have 5 planted in that spot to try and hide the intersection.

I'm so excited that my Ville de Lyons clematis is blooming again. The leaves are starting to turn brown though. Do I need to feed it - or perhaps that was a reaction to our recent series of below freezing nights? btw, my only other perenns that showed signs of wimpyness in that cold were the "hardy" plumbago and the "hardy" arctic kiwi.

And here are some "garden variety" pansies - one of the toughest flowers around IMHO. The flowers stay on all winter if the deer don't discover them.

Great thanks Plutodrive. I can do that one then. I'll put it in the same bed as the Karl Forester. This is a great seed source and I'm going to try their panicum. They have a seed sale every year in April and they ship to the US too http://gardensnorth.com/site/index.htm

Snowlinerose I think its too late to feed clemmies. Mine are winding down too now. I lost my 'Swiss Giant' pansys this winter after 5 years of their cheerful faces (sob). I ordered more seed though ^_^

Everyone's success with seeds has got me all interested. (I haven't had much luck when I've tried seeds in the past, except cosmos). Do y'all winter sow? And if so (no pun intended), when do you sow?

I direct sow in fall and early spring and a bit in June. Some perennials and tomatos I sow in peat pots in the greenhouse for planting out in June. A few perennials I sow in peats and do a weird fridge/inside/outside thing because they have strange germination requirements. Seeding is fun and cheap and you really only need a sunny window for most things. Pansies are easy/peasy as long as you remember they need dark to germinate. I just cover the tray with a dark folded towel until they germinate.

dn- Seeding sounds like fun - and economical. When exactly do you fall sow? Is it one of those "just before the ground is frozen solid" sort of things? Also, is your greenhouse heated?

Nice to see all the pretty blooms! "Arty" shot of nasties. My, my!

Nice to see all the pretty blooms! "Arty" shot of nasties. My, my!

Darn. Sorry. It was taking so long to go through that I smacked it twice!

Roybird I totally luv that pic. Where are they? Inside? Outside?
Snowlinerose I try to sow at the same time as the seed would normally drop from the plant in its native environment (doing the math for things in the southern hemisphere cuz they're upside down). I fire up the greenhouse in early March. I have a little electric heater that is thermostat controlled so it turns on and off like the house furnace. Once the seed germinates I turn it down to 40 degrees. Also I have polished gravel flooring which absorbs the heat from the sun so I don't use the heater much after mid-April. I also have a dahlia-op in the cold room that becomes a warm room when I wake up the dahlias and very, very special seeds are allowed to share this space with the dahlias. Note: I have no sunny windows except over the kitchen sink. I'm surrounded by giant ents.

You can say that again ^_^

Outside in a pot near the unused door to my studio which is yellow.

Pink house and yellow studio. Very cool.

Believe this is Echinacea Bright Star

Nice one, Edder. My echinacea are in full bloom now too. This is Magnus.

Luvly. I sure hope my echs. rally next year. They hated being transplanted for the deck project.

Thx for the link to Gardens North dahlianut. That is a great site. April seems so far away.

Nice nasturtiums roybird. I have heard they are edible. Have you ever eaten them?