A few days …. all manner of early autumn – should I say late summer despite the current chill Bank Holiday weekend ahead? – herbaceous-ness, roses, dahlias, sunflower, more herbaceous perennials, heuchera and Solenostemon (finishing up with Crinkly Bottom….). 2015 here we come …

Ligularia Britt Marie Crawford

Chelone oblique

Sedum Herbstfreude

Rudbeckia fulgida var deamii

Actaea Brunette

Rudbeckia fulgida var deamii

Lobelia cardinalis Queen Victoria

Lobelia Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria

Persicaria amplexicaulis Rosea

Deschampsia cespitosa Goldtau

Succisella inflexa Frosted Pearls

Sedum spectabile Brilliant

Sedum Brilliant

Goldtau

Sedum Red Cauli

Sedum Gooseberry Fool

Sedum Purple Emperor

Phlox paniculata Nesperis

Helenium Riverton Gem

Once more wandering through the archives of garden-visiting, photography and plant inspecting – at RHS Wisley right at the beginning of September in 2015 (four days hence and five years back). These gardens are not entirely the same now, in design, layout and content (what garden is?) but suspect that many of the plants featured still have a home in the landscape there. Circumstances dictate I can’t get out to explore just now, but my green-fingered and garden-loving, photographing self is happy to look back at the Teddington Gardener back catalogue, as I hope you will be too. 

A little late summer turning to autumn herbaceousness for your delight and delectation…. It has been a few days since my last blog entry and I have been busy working, gardening and photographing.

A new camera has already improved the picture offering I think, with more natural and realistic colours. With file sizes between 10MG and 20MB the most recent and future photos really ought to be a step up in quality and definition.

But to business and a gallery, or two, or three to bring us more or less up to date with my horticultural magpie-eye…

Next … a few roses, surprisingly, given the rain and relatively chill month, are in very fine fettle and very floriferous. A good florisaison, a word I came across today…

Hot Chocolate

Leah Tutu

Royal William

Royal William

Twenty One Again

Velvet Fragrance

Rhapsody in Blue

Rhapsody in Blue

Rhapsody in Blue

Happy Retirement

Fellowship

Fellowship

Pride of England

The Cheshire Regiment

Jubilee Celebration

Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten

Grace

Kent

Love Knot

Rosemoor

Queen of Sweden

Sophy’s Rose

Macmillan Nurse

Macmillan Nurse

Big Purple

Remember Me

Tickled Pink

Golden Smiles

Comtes de Champagne

York Minster

Just Joey

Arthur Bell

Hot Chocolate

Leah Tutu

Royal Philharmonic

.. something Smiling?

Cariad

Flower Carpet Scarlet

Flower Carpet Scarlet

Peace

Brilliant Pink Iceberg

Wisley 2008

Rosa glauca hips

and a few Dahlias – very late, getting going and they haven’t caught up to their display last season, even yet.

Dahlia Starsister Red Yellow

Dahlia Happy Days Cream-White

Dahlia Mayo

Dahlia Puebla

Dahlia Sunset

Dahlia Starsister Crimson Stripes

Dahlia Honka Fragile

Dahlia Honka Rose

Dahlia Fleuret

Dahlia Kilburn Rose

Dahlia Kilburn Rose

Mea culpa – didn’t note this one…

Dahlia Hootenanny

Dahlia Oakwood Naranga

Dahlia Oakwood Naranga

Dahlia Cafe au Lait

Dahlia Ocean Bird

Dahlia Karma Fiesta

Dahlia Westerton Lillian

Dahlia Westerton Folly

Dahlia Tahoma Lady Oh

Dahlia Clearview Sundance

Dahlia Oakwood Bridesmaid

and an update on the sunflower trials I reported on at the end of July. Mostly these have gone over completely, a quantity of seedheads and tatty petals. Some, of which these are the best, are still the best.

Helianthus annuus Sungold

Helianthus annuus Greenburst

Helianthus annuus Aurola

Helianthus annuus Lemon Aura

Helianthus annuus Double Quick

Helianthus annuus Goldrush

Helianthus annuus Harlequin Mixed

Helianthus annuus Holiday

and a medley of other treats that caught my eye in the past few days …

Hakonechloa aura Alboaurea

Rudbeckia fulgida var deamii

Salix exigua

Liriodendron tulipifera Auromarginatum

Passiflora caerulea

Pseudowintera colorata Red Leopard

Eucomis comosa

Coleus Kong

Thunbergia

Beschoneria

Dicksonia antarctica

Conference Pears

Babylon Dahlia

Borage

Dahlia Marble Ball

Agastache Summer Glow

Anemone Praecox

Crocosmia Carmine Brilliant

Crocosmia Carmine Brilliant

Crocosmia Fire Jumper

Crocosmia Fire Jumper

Nigella damascena Seed heads

Allium skeletons

Cycas revoluta

Phormium Alison Blackman

Aconitum Spark’s Variety

Ceratostigma plumbaginoides

Aubergine Ivory

Tomato Indigo Rose

Abutilon Orange Glow

Potentilla Monarch’s Velvet

Viburnum plicatum tomentosum Pink Beauty

Abelia chinensis

Hibiscus syriacus Mauve Queen

Hibiscus syriacus Diana

Libertia peregrinans

Davidia involucrata

Hydrangea paniculata Little Lime

Astrantia Star of Billion

Geranium Rozanne

Astelia Silver Spear

Passiflora Amethyst

Passiflora caerulea

Passiflora White Wedding

Agastache Blue Fortune

Rose Lady Emma Hamilton

and a turn to the leafier spectrum, first with Heuchera and Heucherellas – followed (and finally) by Solostemon (Coleus)

Heucherella Solar Eclipse

Heuchera Green Spice

Heucherella Honey Rose

Heucheralla Honey Rose

Heuchera Frosted Violet

Heuchera Paris

Heuchera Paris

Heuchera Berry Smoothie

Heauchera Berry Smoothe

Heucheralla Solar Eclipse

Solar Eclipse

Heuchera Binoche

Heuchera Binoche

Heucheralla Honey Spice

…. and Solenostemon (Coleus)

Solenostemon Piasca Ruby

Piasca Ruby

Raspberry Ripple

Raspberry Ripple

Wearsider

Fire Fingers

Fire Fingers

Red Dwarf

Spire

Spire

Definately Different

Definately Different

Definately Different

Red Mars

Red Mars

Friendship

Friendship

Tabasco

Jade Fingers

Jade Fingers

Skylark

Skylark

Kiwi Fern Stained Glassworks Series

Kiwi Fern Stained Glassworks Series

Muriel Pedley

Muriel Pedley

White Pheasant

White Pheasant

Green Croton

Scarlet Ribbons

Scarlet Ribbons

Whittoni

Crinkly Bottom

Done!