Echinacea Salsa Red
It really was such a lovely summer. I have so many pictures that I’ve taken that I want to share! There have been a few new additions to the garden. The Salsa Red Echinacea is one of my favorites! A red cone flower, it has been blooming since I bought it in late summer. I have it near my Black eyed Susan flowers.
Black eyed Susan (Rudbeckia) in evening sunlight.
Butterfly enjoying the Black eyed Susan
Paniculata hydrangea
The Paniculata hydrangea is another new addition to my garden and another one of my favorites! 🙂 I bought it late in the season while it was still mostly white. But as it ages, it turns pink, and mine turned quite pink in the end. It is just about ready for me to give it a really good pruning. I’d like to give it a nicer shape for next year as it is quite gangly at the moment. But the blooms were so lovely and delicate!
Paniculata hydrangea – reminds me of lace.
Paniculata hydrangea
The Paniculata hydrangea likes lots of sun. Other varieties of hydrangea don’t require as much sunlight as this one does. It can grow to about 8 to 10 feet tall and wide, but can be kept at the size you want with regular pruning. Pruning can be done at any time of year as it does not affect the blooms like other varieties of hydrangeas. I’m excited to see how this one does in our sunny front yard!
End of season Paniculata hydrangea with its new pink color.
Speaking of pink! My roses are going for another round of showing off! We had really bad black spot this year, and I was away when it should have been looked after. I am still trying to find organic ways to prevent/treat black spot. (Please let me know if you’ve found something that works!) I’ll be growing something from the onion family in the rose garden next year. But I think I’ll need to find some kind of spray, too, as the conditions for black spot are simply too perfect here. In the meantime, I’m enjoying the (rose) show!
Floribunda rose Queen Elizabeth (fragrant) with about a million flower buds!
Floribunda rose Burgundy Ice
Floribunda rose Burgundy Ice
Hybrid tea rose Pink Peace (fragrant)
A tiny stemmed rose bouquet.
Dahlia
I’ve planted a yellow Dahlia next to my Asters which have a bright yellow center, or at least they will when they finally bloom later in the fall. This little plant is very cheerful right now!
Dahlia
This redish Dahlia plant I received at the same time as the yellow one. It seems to be much happier in its location as the plant size more than doubled in a very short amount of time!
A very happy Dahlia plant covered in blooms.
Blue hydrangea
Sure it wouldn’t be summer without a blue hydrangea picture! This plant is growing just down the road from me at my neighbor Jerry’s house. I couldn’t resist taking a picture of it, as the color is so lovely!
Pink hydrangea
Things in my yard tend to grow pink! This hydrangea is in my yard. That is ok with me.
Autumn Joy sedum
My Autumn Joy sedum is turning a pretty shade of pink. The butterflies like it too! I cut this plant down early in the season so that it wouldn’t be so leggy. That worked great and I think it’s now neater.
Old fashioned geranium
Geranium on a foggy morning.
Marigold
A snapshot of a perfect summer day … already a distant memory.
I love sharing my pictures of flowers with you! I hope you’ve enjoyed the look back on summer. I next have to show you a look back on the vegetables from the summer!
Happy end of summer 🙂
Dana
Mom in the Garden 
Lovely photos with beautiful colors. I like the Blue hydrangea,Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the compliment NomadNurpu! I’m with you on the Blue Hydrangea – I would love to have that color in my yard!
I’ve never seen red echinacea before! Very nice! And the white lacy hydrangea variety is beautiful! Great post.
Hi there Spy Garden! I hadn’t seen the red echinacea before either and it didn’t take me but two seconds to think about buying it! We’ll see how the hydrangea does. I’ll be pruning it this weekend and hoping for the best. Thanks for visiting! Dana
Hi Dana! Your end of summer garden is beautiful, the flower colors are lovely and go together well. What are your favorite colors to use in your garden? Do you stick to a color scheme?
Hi Mobilemom! I do try to stick to color schemes in individual gardens, but not really throughout the yard. I have to say that pink is predominant in my garden (my favorite color). My rose garden is mostly pink, my side garden is mostly purples & pinks, my ditch wall garden has brighter colors of red, yellow, and white. I’m trying to create a white garden in the center of my yard. It’ll probably (hopefully!) be white, yellow, and green. This is lovely in the summer buy I’d love some more fall colors for now! Still working on that. Thank you for visiting! Dana
I love the red echinacea and you can never have too many hydrangeas in the garden! We will soon be getting our gardens ready for winter-hard to believe.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment on my blog today.
Have a great weekend!
Carolyn
Hi Carolyn! You (and your garden!) are such an inspiration to me. Yes, it’s that time of year to get the garden ready for winter, despite unseasonably warm weather here at the moment. Thanks so much for visiting. 🙂 Dana
I certainly enjoyed looking back over your summer Dana, just wonderful. I loved the red Echinacea and will take a tip from your book and look at cutting back or splitting my sedums early in the year so they don’t go all floppy! Thank you x