September in the Secret Garden

[puddleshark]

Went to the Secret Garden to admire the September salvias...




Salvia 'So Cool Pale Blue', planted next to pale pink 'Peter Vidgeon'.


Salvia 'Nachvlinder' (which is the Dutch for "moth").


Salvia involucrata 'Rosebud'.


Salvia discolor.


Salvia 'Phyllis Fancy'.


The blurry version.








Bees visiting things which are not Salvias:





Not a bee:


Small Copper butterfly. Also on the wing: Red Admirals, Commas, Small Whites, Speckled Woods. More butterflies than I have seen all summer, in fact.

Autumnal things:


Verbascum (from barbascum, for the bearded stamens).






Helianthus, against a threatening grey sky. But the rain held off.






The Pelargoniums are back in the greenhouse, muttering "And summer’s lease hath all too short a date..."

Comments

[heleninwales]

The garden looks very peaceful and how nice to see butterflies. I'm glad they've made something of a recovery.

[puddleshark]

It was very peaceful yesterday. Though you do have to pick your times to visit this garden carefully, as on one morning a week they host an outdoor nursery school, and, my word, it is loud.

It was lovely to see so many butterflies and bumblebees after such a disappointing summer.

[greenwoodside]

Good on the salvias and butterflies and assorted bees. Makes me feel much less Rilke's-Herbsttag-ish to see them.

[puddleshark]

Heh!

Yes. Not yet time to go wandering restlessly down avenues, with the leaves drifting... :-)