Those quinces look superb! Do they taste nice? Are they bitter so that you have to add a lot of sugar/ What sort of habit does the tree have ?
The salvia Amistad which you planted is doing really well thank you searabbit! After the flowers died I cut it back very slightly and it is now reflowering prolifically and the flower colour and shape is perfect: velvety and droopy. I do recommend it! Interestingly the salvia Caradonna, which also has dark purple flowers but in tall spikes rather than droopy heads, hasn't done nearly as well. The deep pink one has put out new shoots.
When I saw there was a bit of a droopy flower theme what with the callicarpa and the salvia Amistad I planted a vey lovely miscanthus with droopy seed heads in the white border and that seems a happy combination! There is a different miscanthus in the coloured border with the white cyclamen and pink Gaura and that too is giving the garden bed some structure, particularly as I planted asters last year, which are coming into their own with the grasses.
On the whole I prefer the blue/purple flower combinations which asters and salvias provide this time of year, with the grasses providing a balnce of neutral. pale and earth colours, and the oranges are provided by the change in leaves and foliage of plants. I find this more pleasing to the eye than the helenium/echinacea combinations, though mother has a wonderful show of cheery bright yellow Rudbeckia, which are so much nicer than the earlier flowering golden rod or solidago.
The saffron crocuses and cyclamen are really nice, and the pinks of the cyclamen brighten up the shady border so much, and to my surprise even the newer ones which blackpudding planted have expanded and have any more flowers than when they came in from the nursery, and the older undisturbed corms are putting upto 20 or so flowers each! Perhaps it is the horse poo!
Other plants like hostas are dying back and I need to put in labels very soon to show where they are!