Helping the backend of the summer last a little bit longer!

lovely colours, well worth growing! i saw them next to some tall grasses yesterday ~ that seemed to work very well.
I still have cosmos out and one clump of michaelmas daisies ~ perhaps i should look out for a pink one ~ they look good in your garden.

Thank you Sticki - I don't have grasses in the garden borders but I do have one that is not hardy in a tub and I love it. I bet they do work well with grasses - it is an idea to try if you have room, which is what I am running out of now. lol. Thank you for your very quick response I was just adding some of the asters to my photographs and you replied you are on the ball today. lol.

its very wet here olive, OH is doing some work ~ for work so i dont have to go out today!! computer is in the kitchen ~ im never far from GoY!!!
I wouldnt have thought about the daisies and grasses but they looked so lovely together ~ im no good at putting the right things together. also what you say about space is important ~ sometimes you need to look at things from a distance ~ my garden isnt big enough for that! i will put a photo on for you ~ of the grasses and the daisies.

I look forward to that Sticki, my oh is watching world cycling championships so I have been pottering out in garden and thought I would take the opportunity to put the photos on. I am not that good when it comes to combinations of plants, Karensue is good at it but I am afraid I have not got the knack like some have. I tend to just plonk stuff in the borders and hope it works, which it usually does.

have a look at this garden:
http://www.ashwoodnurseries.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=594

he is a master! i have done a couple of blogs on his garden ~ it never ceases to amaze me.

i do the same as you ~ see something nice and then find a space for it!! its when i see gardens as the above i wish i could get it right.

Will look next thanks Sticki.

Those pictures are amazing will go back and spend some more time looking through your blogs and pictures in a mo. will add you to favourites and then I shall not miss any of your pictures thanks again.

thats very kind ~ thanks Oliveoil

I have bluey/purple in my garden Olive, they were here when I moved in, they just mingle with everything else and as you say are a bit of late colour for this time of the year, I do like the pink ones, must keep an eye out for them.
Lovely photo`s, its dry but cold here so pottering has been kept to a minimum today, armchair gardening on here instead, lol...

It is quite dry here today Lincslass but on and off we have had drizzle, nothing much but very cloudy and quite a chill in the air. Just been pottering and tidying up fallen apples and repairing field fences today. Quite a lazy day for us today. Glad you like the photos. I have been looking at early spring pictures in my collection and wondering where the summer has gone to. Apparently we are to have a heatwave next week, I wonder if they have got it right - fingers crossed.

Lovely blog Oliveoil. I agree ....they are beautiful...especially the pink and dark violet ones. Do you have Frickarti Monch? It has a bigger flower, flowers earlier but carries on just as late and has a more delicate 'airy' habit. You would like it I think.

Yes Olive, its s`posed to be very warm. I `ve put my order in for the next 5mths, lol...

Karen will look at that one do not think I have seen it before.

Lincslass it would be nice if it lasted for a couple of months think 5 might be pushing it a bit. lol.

You two are fantasists! :)))))) We'll be lucky to get 2 weeks.....do you remember the 2 weeks of summer we had back in April? Somebody said to me at the time 'well, that's our summer then' and I tutted and muttered about them being negative and 'we're a' doomed' and all that...but they were RIGHT!!! lol!

keep telling you we are in for an Indian Summer and they don't start until October. lol. (I can dream) maybe I did dream it eh!!! LOL :o) Now I am really off out into the garden spent too much time on here already.

:)) Yes, get on with your work!

Beautiful Asters Olive.....I didnt used to like them either, but i love them now....I love the bright pink one, do you know the name of it please?....I wonder if its the same as the beauty Spritz has shown us....:>)

If it is the first picture Moti I have added it to my photos and named it on there, not sure which one you like, but I can see Spritz has the same one on her plant catalogue lists. Hope you find it because I cannot remember the name of the top of my head. lol. Hopeless with names just know it is an Aster. I had to search for the label to name it. lol.

Now here's a genus of plants I have never, ever grown in any of my gardens! ... Now I'm wondering why not .... they are very pretty, Barbara and, as you say, a welcome addition to the end of the season ... I love the very first one ... stunning colour ... :o)))

Yes Shirley they are well worth their place, I love that first one too. Have put a name to it on my photographs page. Have you had sunshine too this week? We are so warm in this part of the country, all good though as I am spending lots of time out in the garden, tidying things up and getting ready to shut down plants ready for winter months. Hope you are having a good time in your gardens too.

I shall view your photos in a moment, Barbara ... we have had lovely warm and sunny weather ... the forecast up until Monday is sun, sun, sun with temps.of 20, 21 and 22 ... perfect for mowing lawns, weeding the plot etc. ... :o)))

Great for doing all the jobs in the garden, just been out weeding some of the borders and having a tidy up before it gets too hot. It was amazing weather yesterday, far too hot for working in.