The Garden in August

It's hard to believe but the garden is winding down for the season.  The day lilies are almost finished, and a lot of other plants are collapsing, having grown too large with the excess rain this summer.  But we still have some beautiful flowers coming into bloom for one last burst of garden colour.

The combo of Brown-eyed Susans and Purple Coneflowers that form a band around a big rock right in the middle of the yard become one of the bright points in the yard for a few weeks at this time of year.

We've got yet another tall yellow flower, a flower that stands nearly 8 feet tall.  You can judge that beside the fence here, which is about 5 feet high.

I have trouble sorting out our 4 different yellow flowers all in the sunflower family, but I think this is the Cutleaf Coneflower, that typically blooms in late summer, and is very tall.  In our experience it has not spread at all from the three big clumps we have, unlike the other tall Gray-headed Coneflower (which is actually yellow), which spreads like mad by self-seeding.

We've got a tall pale pink Obedient Plant that blooms at this time of year.

And the orange version of the bright red Crocosmia that I shared recently is now in bloom, a truly beautiful little flower.

I love the colours of this Helenium.  Looking from the top it looks mostly yellow, but it's up to 6 feet high, so I often see the blooms from below, in which case they're a striking range from yellow through orange to red.

We have several different brightly coloured Phlox in bloom now.

And the plant Ligularia, that I've incorrectly described in the past as Elephant Ears is now in bloom, a flower that I originally thought was a really great addition to the garden.  I feel differently now because it spreads relentlessly and is very hard to get rid of!

And here's one final bloom of the daylilies.  There won't be many more of these, but we've enjoyed nearly two months of many bright blooms.