The Garden in October

 

Here we are in late October and the Dahlia Figaro Mixed are still thriving. There are some photos I posted in September but these are from this week. Normally I would have stripped out the bedding plants from this border a long time ago, but these dahlias go on and on. They have been by far, the most successful bedding plants I have tried.

The other main success is the Delphinium Pacific giant. It flowered first in June.

After flowering I cut down the spent flower stalks leaving on the other foliage. And low and behold it has flowered again as the photo below and is still going strong in late October. Last week Monty Don on Gardener's World showed exactly the same with his Delphinium.

Even more impressive is the Rose Blue for You. On the 8th August I published a post about how it had flowered in both June and August. After the second flowering, I once again gave it a good prune, and now in October it has once again come into bud.

Into late October and, with the abnormally mild weather, some of the buds have flowered.

A white Astrantia has flowered again.

Also the small blue geranium.

And a flower that has popped up in the wild flower border.

Another rose has come into flower.

The silver birch look lovely.