Ten Favourite Plants for September.

Like all gardeners I return from holidays queasy to see what is happen in the garden . In my absence seizure this time , there have been gales and heavy rain so the colchicums which were search so beautiful when I left are look a snatch dashed . That is the only fault with Colchicum , they do n’t seem very attractive when they collapse in a peck . But still I have to include them amongst my favourite September blooms . The first to bloom in my garden areColchicum autumnaleandColchicum autumnale‘Album ’ . The name is a bit odd for flowers that start blossom in August .

genus Colchicum autumnale

genus Colchicum autumnale‘Album ’

Colchicum autumnale

My favourite genus Colchicum isColchicum speciosum‘Atrorubens ’ . It does n’t founder so readily and it has a adorable imperial stem turn and showy bloom .

Colchicum speciosum‘Album ’

I save more amply about Colchicum last year and you could read about themhere . For now , I will move on to a couple of works that came through the violent storm quite unmarred and are looking lovely . So hail in at phone number two and number three on my list- first of all , we have what I consider to be the Rolls Royce of the miscanthus menage , Miscanthus nepalensis . The plumes seem as if they have been spun from silk . Unfortunately it call for a very sheltered position as it is slightly lovesome , although mine survived the winter happily in my hush-hush garden .

Colchicum autumnale

Miscanthus nepalensis

I grow it with the tall , airy scabious , Succcisa pratensisor ‘ Devil ’s Bit Scabious ’ . This has a profusion of neat little gamy flowers which are much have a go at it by bees and butterfly .

Succisa pratensis

Colchicum autumnale‘Album’

As it is September I will go from some lovely grass plumes to some really eldritch berries . I acquire several actaea plant because I love their fragrant flowers and attractive foliation . Actaea by the fashion is the name we now have to give to cimicifuga . But althoughActaea pachypodahas spires of fluffy white flowers , I grow it for its rum berries which look just like a collection of wench ’ middle .

Actaea polypoda

Cyclamen hederifoliumstarts bloom in August and this is the time I give mine a bonemeal feed and a effective soaking . But they are looking their better now and they buoy up up shady spots under tree where nothing else would grow .

Colchicum speciosum‘Album’

Cyclamen purpurascens hederifolium

I have them in pinkish and white and the ash grey - leaved ones are particularly sympathetic .

Cyclamen hederifolium‘Silver leaf form ’

Miscanthus nepalensis

Cyclamen ciliciumis a little beauty with twisted , odoriferous bloom and it is in efflorescence now too . It is a little tender so mine lives in a plenty , but the corm is a mass of flowers .

Cyclamen purpurascens cilicium

Two late flowering clematis are looking and smelling good now . Clematis rhederianahas bell - work flower and I can never balk flowers that look like piddling bell . They are pale yellow , fragrant and quite charming . One possible drawback is that it does uprise very strongly and can quickly take over a paries . The other drawback is the cringe - making usual name of ‘ Nodding Virgin ’s Bower ’ . The less said about that the beneficial .

Miscanthus nepalensis

Clematis rhederiana

Believe it or not my other clematis is named ‘ Fragrant Virgin ’s Bower ’ . But allow ’s give it its proper name ofClematis flammula . It is a intercourse of the fantastic clematis that coldcock the hedgerow . It has clouds of very sweetly scented white flowers .

Clematis flammula

I have mentioned my adorable late flowering genus Dianthus from Sicily before . It is calledDianthus rupicolaand it has very longsighted stems which make it beneficial for picking . I have register that it is not faithfully hardy but I have had mine for years .

Dianthus rupicola

Some people dislike tritoma but I love them . Recent hybrids come in some awesome colours . My latest purchase is calledKniphofia hybrida‘Rich Echoes ’ . I have seen a sales booth of this growing that look wonderful . It has apricot yellow flowers and would see fabulous growing with a cooky coloured grass . It was raised by Bob Brown ’s son , Ed Brown . Bob has the wonderful nursery , Cotswold Garden Flowers and he has an Brobdingnagian assembling of kniphofias .

Succisa pratensis

Kniphofia hybrida‘Rich sound reflection ’

Another kniphofia which I am proud of with is the one arise on my ‘ beach ’ in front of the shed . It has great foliage which make it look like an aloe . It isKniphofiacaulescens . I get it with the orange flowered sea poppy , Glaucium corniculatumwhich has the same glaucous foliage .

Kniphofia caulescens

Actaea polypoda

September is the start of the aster clip , or symphyotrichum as we have to call some of them now . Plants of European or Asian pedigree are allow to to stay aster . The reliableAster frickartii‘Monch ’ get bloom in early August and goes on for weeks . Beth Chatto said ‘ it is absolutely the good Michaelmas daisy for long exhibit and sheerbeauty ‘ . I agree with her , it is wonderful . you may take cuttings in the outpouring if you want more .

Aster x frikartii‘Monch ’

Two other beauties are in flower are in bloom now . One is this lovely tall one and I ca n’t think of its name at the moment . Can anybody aid me?The other is the neat and compactSymphyotrichum nova -belgii‘Purple Dome ’ .

Cyclamen hederifolium

Symphyotrichum nova - belgii‘Purple Dome ’

Next month there will be enough more Michaelmas soapbox to look forward to .

For my last plant I have picked a salvia . I am very fond of salvias and have quite a large appeal . They are so easy both from cum and cutting . As this post is getting rather long I have select just one which is new to me this year . It seduce a endearing bountiful shrub and the bloom attend as if they are made from velvet . The folio are minute and willow -like and velvety in grain too . It isSalvia leucantha‘Purple Velvet ’ . regrettably it is not hardy but I have taken plenty of cutting .

Cyclamen hederifolium‘Silver leaf form’

Salvia leucantha‘Purple Velvet ’

So there is my list of September beauties . I would sleep with it if you would choose your ten September favourites and share them with us . If you ca n’t oversee ten , perhaps you could choose five favourites . It is always good to see what other multitude are revel each month .

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Great post ! That Miscanthus is one of my all - time favorites , too – the form of it and the way it catch the sunlight . It was one of the grasses on display at Kew Garden ’s Grass Garden . spectacularly beautiful ! The Dolls ’ Eyes Actaea is a peachy plant , too . I enjoy seeing it in nature during wage increase . 🙂

I bid we could grow the range of asters you’re able to . I ’ve only win with ‘ Monch ’ and S. chilensis , both presently babble by our last heatwave . I was admiring a Salvia leucantha at my local botanical garden this retiring weekend and I ’m tempted to buy one or more for their previous summer / other autumn bloom – those I inherited with the garden died out during our late drought ( despite their reputation for drouth tolerance ) .

Cyclamen cilicium

I ’ll have to look at what I featured as favourite last month to see if there ’s anything new I canname this month . October unremarkably brings out the blooms of Senna bicapsularis , Barleria obtusa and Plectranthus ciliatus but none of those have made an coming into court yet .

Very fascinate by Miscanthus nepalensis and Dianthus rupicola as well . endearing September choices .

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Clematis rhederiana

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Love your list and so happy others love Colchicum as much as I do ! They ’re always on my list of pin front-runner ! After seeing your photo I take to find a Canadian source for the Colchicum speciosum ‘ Atrorubens . ’ Also happy to see Actaea pachypoda on your inclination – a North American native ! Although here the berries never last beyond spring .

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Ten Favourite Plants for September.