August flower gap

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My well established garden was gorgeous in June and early July, but I've come back from my hols and everything is looking faded and past it's best.
I have some later flowering things still to come through but at the moment there is a bit of a lack of flowers.

What is looking good in your garden right now?

hydrangers, lavatera, phlox. crocosmia, fuschia honeysuckle, jasmine, spyrea, anenome. BUT other borders look hopeless.....thats just the way it goes.

Are you down south Dreaming? I have hydrangeas, crocosmia, fuchsia and anemone but none are looking anything like flowering yet.

yes. they have been flowering for a week or so now.

Crocosmia and anemones are the only things looking good here.

My garden in Dorset is doing fine this year. I have Phlox, cosmos,echinacea,everlasting sweet pea, crocosmia, Lavatera, verbena bonsiensis, agapanthus, Rudbeckia, perennial geranium, day lillies and agapanthus flowering. Both my anemones and hydrangea have suffered from lack of water and though still alive i suspect they won't flower this year.
I have just bought a new white echinacea and its growing well so that could be good plant to plug the gap

Actually I forgot dd's hardy annual bed - calendula, Nigella, nasturtiums and sunflowers still providing a blast of colour.

See my hardy geraniums have been and gone (though I have given them a haircut in the hope of another flush), my lavender is fading badly and even my buddleia is half over.
It feels like the garden got way behind because of the long winter, had a big massive catch up when it looked amazing, and has now sort of worn itself out.

Roses are still gorgeous in Yorkshire also geranium Rozanne goes on for another two months, marigolds, persicaria, zinnias, Russian sage,scabious, fuchsias and rudbeckias. We still have loads if clematis, some phlox and regal pelargoniums (those are in pots).

Mums garden: roses, fuschia, clematis, viola, shasta daisies, various alpines gone rampant, thyme, gladioli, petunias, lobelia,day lilies.
Mine: Dahlias, calla lilies, begonias, coreopsis, osteospermum, cornflowers, roses, sweet peas, tree lilies, ceratostigma, lavender, dill, nicotiniana, stachys, salvia, phlox, shasta daisies, geraniums still going, buddleia.

Saw an amazing blue hibiscus shrub covered ib flowers in a neighbour's garden

I've seen a couple of fabulous Campsis plants flowering their socks off this past week. Decided I need one.

In our old garden, the Kniphofia was usually flowering around now.

Phlox just coming out here. Clematis jackmanii going great guns. White potentilla looking good. Echinacea would normally be coming out now but I think they have given up on me. Cosmos are handy for bridging that gap too. Neighbours' lavatera looks fabulous.

peers out of window Shasta daisies are going over now and look a bit cruddy. Perennial wallflower has been flowering continuously since April and still has a few flower heads - a bit leggy but good for the bees. Crocosmia not in flower yet.