Our Garden is Still Going Strong!

Remarkably enough for this time of September, our garden is still very colourful and full of interesting flowers in bloom.  The Zinnias are the backbone of it, but a lot of other flowers are contributing.  I especially love the Fall Anemones, the first photo below, a flower we had at our last house.

The colour of the Fall Anemones is beautiful; it seems very peaceful to me. 

Even the faded Echinacea are still adding some nice colour.

One I haven't talked about for several years (since we were in our last house) is this Ligularia.  I often mistakenly refer to it as Elephant Ears because of its big leaves, but that's a tropical plant with truly enormous leaves.

The Ligularia blooms at this time of year, and adds a dash of bright yellow/orange to the back of the garden.  The actual blooms seem rather chaotic.

We even have a Day Lily that is still stubbornly blooming.

But it's the bright red  Zinnias that are making the garden sparkle these days, scattered through the garden.  You know I like bright colours, so I'm encouraging Mrs. F.G. to grow more of these next year.

We don't just have red Zinnias though; these white and pink ones are among the most interesting of the others.  There are a wide variety of Zinnias, with the single-petalled ones being best for pollinators, but the double-petalled ones being most popular.

And the swath of bright flowers in front of me as I turn onto the patio at the bottom of the ramp is particularly appealing for colour, though they're not all Zinnias.  But it's the colour, the fall blooms and the open flowers for pollinators that appeal to me.

We also have numerous 3-4 foot high stems of Verbena, which the bees absolutely love.

The many stems of Cleome in bloom currently are still my favourite.

The neighbours kindly contribute a beautiful rich blue Morning Glory facing our direction.  My grandparents had one just the same