Foliage follow up...

I wish I could remember what this sweet tender Euphorbia is called, but I just can't. I bought it a last year at the Rare plant research sale. It survived in my sun room all winter and looks about to bloom.

I bought this Sophora microphylla 'sun king' recently, I couldn't resist , it was sitting all on it's lonesome  looking tall and lanky!

Eucalyptus Morrisbyi , apparently rare and endangered in Tasmania... no pressure .

Phormium 'apricot queen'

Stachy looking like wet lambs ears or tongue

Amsonia Hubrichtii 

Tetrapanax leaf about to drop

Phormium 'Alison blackman and a variegated Sedum ...a whatsit 

Leucosceptrum stellpitium 'October moon'

One of my supermarket Echreveria 

This invasive variegated grass I enjoy snipping. Held captive in  small pot.

Mr Ripple

And for more beautiful foliage visit Pam at Digging.

A Drizzly Bloom day...

Abutilon 'Furious yellow' with a fine misting 

A favorite, Saxifraga rubrifolia just now beginning to bloom.

Rosa 'Perle d'or' , Thank you Jane!

Knifhofia typhoides , the brown poker, sometimes gets lost in the fray .

Justicia brandegeana with many,many shrimps this year

Miscanthus sinensis 'little zebra' not looking so little

Helenium mariachi fuego 

Those Nicotianas again

My Persicaria starts from last springs plant swap, all grown up and blooming away 

Last year I watched a Dahlia collector on ' Gardeners World' . I was surprised  how aggressively he dead headed the blooms .  so I have been snipping away every  morning, snipping blooms with the slightest signs of fading. Yes, it does makes a big difference in the blooming. 

The Japanese Anemones have taken a beating this year,   they're  no longer floating  tall ,  but  hanging horizontal   over most of the area. 

Penstemon 'Purple giant' ...I think

Zauschneria 'Silver select'

And lastly the Sedums ,Happy Bloom day.Garden Blogger's Bloom Day is hosted by Carol, of May Dreams Gardens

A walk around the back garden this glorious afternoon...

After two days of brutal heat...today perfect for a stroll around the garden.

There was  a midseason lull , but now the late blooms are at it . Nicotiana sylvestris leading the way, filling every available gap.

Anemone I don't know what taking over all the space around Acasia dealbata 

Miscanthus sinensis 'little zebra' ...can't be...it's huge

Yes...the Asters are arriving

Solidago canadensis...I'm guessing

I'm guessing, because I didn't plant it. It just decided to move into the garden last year. I love it against  the overcast grey sky. Which is today !

If it looks a bit nipped in around the waist, it's because it completely collapsed in the recent rain. Next year better staking 

 

Solidago canadensis or Canada goldenrod, meadow golden rod. Common, late summer - autumn , perennial, 2-5 ft. The bees love it , I love it.

Pet peeves...

I thought I'd share one of my neighborhood pet peeves. The  ' Cousin itt' Maples. Everywhere almost every house has one. I always find myself imagining how I would go about sniping them into shape. A simple thinning out of the under growth for a start ...

Here a double whammy 

Weigela can be just as annoying 

Hold on a minute ...that ones mine...ooops!
What are your favorite pet peeves? 

tinkering...

Not really the time to be moving plants , with HEAT and three months of dry , dry , dry. But I have been , sometimes Things just can't wait. This patch of planting along the front . I've been working on for years, still can't seem to get it right. A few weeks ago I pulled out the floppy Iris, cut A. Valerie Finnis and Nepeta 'Souvenir de Andre Chandon' down to the ground, such a tangled mass., both can be thugs, hoping to get a nice bit of fresh growth. Sorry Valerie and Andre you may be moving. I put in a small clump of Miscanthus 'Autumn light'...no flopping ! Amosonia and two new Helenium Mariachi fuego's with is a shorter one. We'll see ....