September 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Paddy Tobin]

Ashley,

We certainly won't have any apples left on trees; they are dropping continuously now in the light winds we had yesterday and today.

Paddy

[Michael J Campbell]

Latana red hot.
Eucryphia x intermedia, Rostrevor' before the storm defoliates it

[Martin Baxendale]

WOW!!! LOVE those hot colours, Michael. 

[Olga Bondareva]

WOW!!! LOVE those hot colours, Michael. 

Those hot colours remind me autumn and winter soon. I like more green and cool colours.
Athyrium vidalii


The last phloxes flowers


First flowers of New Zeland delphiniums


Harvest.

[Martin Baxendale]

The hot colours remind me of summer, Olga (the hot summer we never had this year  )

[Paddy Tobin]

Olga, you're a lady after my own heart - lots and lots of garlic. I lifted some late garlic only yesterday, one called "Elephant Garlic" where the individual cloves are as big as most other garlic bulbs. It is good roasted with mixed vegetables.

Paddy

[Pascal B]

Dianthus superbus subsp. longicalycinus, a clone from Taiwan

[Olga Bondareva]

The hot colours remind me of summer, Olga (the hot summer we never had this year  )

Martin, we had a hot and dry summer again. May be that's why I dont like hot colours now.

[Olga Bondareva]

Paddy  
We lifted all garlic before the rains we enjoy now. We have only a few kinds, one must be planted in autumn and other in spring.
Some onions continuing talking about harvest.  

[johnw]

Scilla peruviana is just in flower here.  They were grown from BC seed labelled good dark blue. At least one is flowering white.

johnw

[Paddy Tobin]

Great vegetable garden, Olga.
We plant all our garlic in autumn and harvest in July. For the last two years we have planted onion sets in autumn and they have been disasterous - not drying well, not storing and most rotting; a waste of time.

Paddy

[Knud]

Three reliable late bloomers here, and which do well whatever the weather throws at them. Asters, colchicum, and rudbeckias, here represented by one of my favourites of the species, Rudbeckia subtomentosa. This year it stands 170 cm (5'8") tall, a very gracious Rudbeckia. The seed for this plant came from Gardens North about ten years ago, so it is certainly a long-lived perennial in our garden and climate.

Knud

[Diane Whitehead]

These flowers are at my front door where I try to have a few flowers
as a welcome all year long.

Two of them are unexpected, though.  I grew a plant of Campanula
primulifolia about 20 years ago in the back yard and haven't had it
since.

The gentian is also a mystery.  The only nearby gentian label is for a seed
exchange G pannonica, and it is certainly not that.  The leaves seem
too narrow for it to be septemfida, but perhaps they vary.

Crocus banaticus is one of my few crocus successes.  I think perhaps
the solid tangle of plants keeps its bulb protected from digging rodents.

[Maggi Young]

This year it stands 170 cm (5'8") tall, a very gracious Rudbeckia.

Wow! That must be glorious in the garden... and it's a great photo. 

[Maggi Young]

Diane, I have a feeling that  visitors will always enjoy a walk to your door, even without all these super plants 
I'm not sure what the gentian is... but the close-up is a super shot.... they are such pretty flowers, just asking to be made into a painting to keep forever!