You can thank Madam Arcati for this post, for if she had not seen fit to furnish us with her August flowering foxglove, you would be hastily scrolling through/clicking past a Star Trek fan art post featuring a barely clothed Rutherford.*
Except for the first photo, here are some late blooming floral oddities from the gardens of Hexenhäusli Device this morning:
From yesterday's Bitey walk: A foxglove in the wild.
Sorry. Please ignore Bitey's fluffy bottom, and focus your attention on the rather lacklustre foxglove.
Agapanthus "Royal Velvet" having another go after flowering at the beginning of August.
I split the Astilbe in The Gardener's Retreat earlier in the year (or was it last year? I can't remember), and this half now in the border between the South Lawn and Lake decided to flower. Again.
These Gladioli "At Night" were a very late planting (late June/early July, if memory serves).
Fuchsia "Auntie Jinks", while neither early nor late, is putting forth some flowers with additional small petals on stems peeking out from under the petticoats!
Oh, if you haven't already done so (why haven't you?!), remember to get out in your garden or mudpit/on your balcony or paysho/windowsill or shiny sideboard - or even your favourite graveyard - with your camera as the
I N F O M A N I A C
Garden Photos Event
is only four weeks away!
* For those who are interested, Rutherford and his undercrackers can be found on my Star Trek Fan Art page.
It's been an odd growing year, all round. A crap Spring, and more overcast than not for the whole of summer and into early autumn, has led to things like Salvia ulignosa and Thunbergia alata (Black Eyed Susan vine) only really taking off now, and if we get any flowers on the Nerines at all, it's looking likely to be around Xmas-time! Jx
ReplyDeletePerhaps we'll have a really warm and colourful winter?
DeleteI best get to sending my pictures in as I have another trip coming up. I hope you get the gardening photos and not the "other" special photos. that may take the gardening event into a Mr Peenee direction.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm sure no one would complain.
DeleteLovely picture! I even like the fluffy bottom! This was a recovery year for my plants that survived the nightmare solid freeze of two weeks back in February. I'll still have some pictures for you, but I won't be winning any prizes and it will be nice to see what others have been able to do with their growing season.
ReplyDeleteSounds like crap growing seasons all around, but I'm sure you - and everyone else - will have some lovely, floral displays here and there.
DeleteOh, and there won't be any prizes for anyone as, fortunately, the Garden Photos Event is *NOT* a competition!
Garden photos, eh ? It's weeks, no rush.
ReplyDeleteThat's right, Mago. No point in getting all caught up in the hysteria. I mean, just how long does it take to photograph a wax plant anyway?
DeleteFlowers are so suggestive when pictured close up. 😱
ReplyDeleteAll those erect stamens are enough to make one blush!
DeleteI don't have much to show from my yard, but we did go to the Orchid Society's Spring show.Oh MY STARS!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link - I've never seen so many different varieties of orchid in the same place before. Amazing!
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