september garden

I mostly water-and-ignore the garden in August and September, when it is so hot. But the garden stays busy without me, and surprises me every year with its end-of-official-season burst of energy.

There are cosmos and salvia. I usually kill salvia, somehow, but it has taken off this year.  I suspect it likes the leaky faucet.

The little yellow-hearted feverfew are still going.  I have chopped all the feverfew down to the ground a couple times since I planted it, whenever it starts looking quite dead, and it comes right back.

The roses are having their last big flush.  I quit fertilizing them this month so that they can go dormant and build up energy for spring, but because our weather is so mild, we'll have straggler blooms all winter.

The scabiosa just keeps on blooming. Have I recommended this plant to you enough times this year already?

The phlox look so funny and shaggy when they start dropping petals, but there are new buds there ready to go.

And here's a sweet little pink vinca ready to go, too.