Snapshot of the garden

On wandering through my garden yesterday, I thought I would record what caught my eye.

1 Echinacea Purpurea

My favourite - I will have white ones too by this time next year!

2 Anemone

I love these slightly darker pink flowers, I have the pale ones too, but these are less thug-like (although I have got one or two extra clumps this year).

3 Hydrangea

A bit municiple but this bush gives great value and just goes on and on whatever you do to it.

4 Jasmine Officinale

Still flowering and has been ever since June. Definitely it's best season ever!

5 Convolvulus Star of Yalta

Hasn't stopped since June either, it's about 7ft high and rather ragged now but still flowering and producing seed fit to bust (see previous post)

6 Jasmine Clotted Cream

Again still flowering. This Jasmine didn't have a great initial flush of flowers like the white, but it has flowered consistently throughout the summer and is more lush and voluptuous. Both smell divine!

7 Lysimachia

Lovely arching blooms, this spreads where it wants to go, which usually means not where you want it. Every spring I spend a bit of time moving new shoots, and then you get lovely drifts of white in mid to late summer.

8 Verbena Rigida

So pretty, and the flowers have lasted so well. I also have Verbena Bonariensis flowering which is also lovely but much taller and a darker purple.

So my plan is to add to the Echinaceas, with some White Swan as I mentioned, and I would like some more Verbena, both Rigida and Bonariensis.

Now all I have to do is decide what to get rid of - perhaps I should take some pictures of things not doing well. Mind you, by and large the things that are doing really, really badly have disappeared!