What's looking good in your garden at the moment?

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In particular, small to medium sized perenials? I planted a small border from scratch this time last year and was fairly pleased with how it looked April - August. I'm picking up some Anemone, Muscari and Aconites to spice up the first few months of the year, but I need some more Autumn/winter interest I think.

I have some small evergreen shrubs as a backdrop and have a few evergreen carpet plants like creeping thyme and cotton lavender. The Rudbeckia are still looking good, but I could do with a plant or two which would look nice next to it. Any suggestions?

Phlox is still going strong, as are the alstroemerias.

Tall verbena!

My cat

Its tall but dainty, and you can get different varieties so some smaller more compact ones

Not a lot, Salvia Amistad, Persicaria, I'm getting ahead of myself and planning to cut lots back and rearrange the beds for next spring

My fuchsias are still looking lovely, too

Japanese anemones. Shoo fly plant. Eucomis.

oh and dahlias.

Some of those above. Also aster are just on bud. Nasturtium. White anemone. Sedum, hylotelephium, Viola, and some large flowered tuberous begonias.

Rudbeckia Goldstrum is looking amazing plus some small bulbs called Brodiaea Queen Fabiola which I randomly planted.
But not much else. Most of my Dahlias are looking done.

my apple trees - small one is now horizontal because of the number we have had this year & the size of them! the plum tree has gone nuts too
we watered them with bath water to keep them going it obviously worked (they seem to flourish on shower gel & soap

Verbena and fuschia still throwing out new blossoms. Roses on their second bloom too.

My fuschias have gone on and on all summer. Just beautiful. And geraniums.

Dahlia Waltzing Mathilda
Dahlia David Howard
Salvia Amistad
Salvia Phyllis Fancy
Salvia Love & Wishes & Ember Wishes
Miscanthus Kleine Silberspinne
Miscanthus Morning Light
Sedum Matrona
Diascia Fetcaniensis
Eryngium Pandanifolium
Borinda Albocera

I'm a plant obsessed Garden Designer so I hope these help!

My echinacea has been looking resplendent since the beginning of august and still has loads of blooms on now. It's gorgeous.

Echinacea, Hylotelephium (Sedum) spectabile, the seedpods of Crocosmia, Agastache (I have a two-toned orange/pink one and a pink/lilac one), rose hips (Rosa rugosa, R moyesii), Dahlias "Bishops children" (seedlings from Bishop of Llandaff - all with the same dark purple foliage but flowers from orange to deep red), winter savory.

Otherwise it's late annuals (nasturtiums, asters, late planted Cosmos and Calendula), leaf colour (maples, Sorbus, deciduous Euonymus), berries (Sorbus, Pernettya)

My perennial wallflower (erysimum bowles mauve) has flowered since March and is still going strong. Going to add more, bees love it too.

@Jakey056 I’m trying to pick a garden design course to complete this autumn. Do you have any recommendations? I’ve been doing some volunteering at one of the main RHS gardens and I want to get some formal training. Thanks

@Jakey056 I’m trying to pick a garden design course to complete this autumn. Do you have any recommendations? I’ve been doing some volunteering at one of the main RHS gardens and I want to get some formal training. Thanks smile

I think the best way it to train at a good garden. You learn more by doing. Derry Watkins in Bath is excellent and does short courses. You can do the RHSI qualifications and go from there. I think the majority of gardening courses are for bored people who want lite skills.
Go and do is the way I would do it.

My hardy geranium has been wonderful this year. I started a new garden in the spring, and have planted a lot of these for the first time, bought from The Secret Gardener or Crocus. I love cottage garden plants and they are popular with bees too.
Geranium Roxanne - amazing deep blue, spreads nicely and bees love it.
Agastache Blackadder - bought last week and flowering well bees happy
Hebe - not the most exciting of plants, but constantly flowering the bees love it
Rose Chagall - bought a Hampton Court a few years back, and it looks marvellous now, such a beautiful pink. I love roses planted in mixed borders.
My large selection of salvias have done well this year, but not flowering now
Scabious is still flowering and looking wonderful
I was at the Beth Chatto garden last week, and Persicarias were looking great, and I was inspired to buy a japanese blood grass for colour too.

(I can link to these if you'd like, but need to start work now!) Please excuse typos!

Geranium Rozanne still going strong. Cosmos are looking fabulously waftY and tall. Dahlias.

Thank you Jakey.

I'm looking out my window right now...

Hydrangea
Roses
Hebe
Anemones
Geranium
Dianthus
Phlox
Fuchsia
Dahlia
Echinacea
Mallows
Rudbeckia
Mums
Alliums

The only difference between now and summer is that the Buddleia & daisies are over

Hedychium. Relative of ginger. Big fresh green leaves, and dense spikes of orange flowers. Absolutely trouble free, and puts up a good show in September.

That's great, thanks for all the replies! I was out doing some tidying the other day and noticed my salvias have some new blooms poking through, so there's a little more colour out there now. I've also decided to abandon having an extra section of lawn and go for a small nature pond and bigger border (an excuse to buy more plants ).

I might still have some Dahlia, Sedum and Echinacea seeds from a previous year. I think the plants were still a bit small when I planted them out and the slugs got to them. I'll have a go at starting some off in the conservatory now and hopefully will have some success.