Early early fall flowers

The flowers are beautiful and I like your idea of pruning! Not sure some of our shrubs would tolerate quite such a 'hard' prune, though I did mutilate a couple of my shrubs this year, they may or may not survive!
The Ipomoeas look lovely, but that's only because we are used to the hedge bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), I expect this is just as much a pest where you are - but it's till a stunning sight.

Great to see so many of your plants doing so well, Wylie!

I have a couple of Amaryllis that are repeat flowering this year! One is now open on our living room table & the other has a scape halfway up to its eventual height in the kitchen! Later I'll upload a couple of pictures.

Thanks - I have found that there are several trees and shrubs I have that enjoy the hard prune method. I cut the plumbago all the way to the ground, and it is full of flowers (not surprising since it flowers on new wood). At the same time I cut a Paulownia off at 4 feet, and it has 6 foot branches now.
Balcony: Remember my Amaryllis are the species and not Hippeastrums. I am about to have flowers open on a xAmarygia - a cross between Amaryllis and Brugsvigia. And there are 3 Nerines about to open, so I will be trying to cross those. I favor the Amaryllidaceae that produce seeds that look like marbles or pearls.

some beautiful flowers there Wylie. shame about the ipomoea being such a thug. is it perennial or self seeding annuals?

It is a perennial here. It was discarded there only 3 years ago.

Thanks for that, Wylie. I find it interesting, no, fascinating the hybridization you do! Reminds me of when I was a boy in London & I tried to cross a Tulip with a Daffodil!!!

All my Hippeastrums are from my own seeds which are black & extremely flat with a tiny bump that is the actual seed, as the surroundings are like black crepe paper. I suppose this would help with their dispersal in the wild.

I was once sent some pollen by a lady in the USA who had plants in flower at the same time as me. I tried the pollen on some of the plants I had that were in flower when it arrived but only a few set seed & of those few only one or two ended up producing viable seeds. Even so I ended up with more seed than I knew what to do with! I send some of them to the lady in America but she never got back to me so I don't know how they did for her.

I ended up sowing a couple of seedtrays with lots of the seeds because I wasn't sure if they would germinate. but they did & I was overwhelmed with so many seedlings! I eventually went on to grow about 20 of the little plants which flowered in their 4th year. I have documented them here on GoY in various blogs over the years.

I don't know if you have seen it on eBay.co.uk, but there is a seller in Poland with some very rare Hippeastrum bulbs for sale. His shop is exceptional_plants, or try this link:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hippeastrum-bukasovii-ULTRA-RARE-bulbous-ornamental-plant-geophyte/163852992683?hash=item26266640ab:g:MpoAAOSwEaxckSjr
and then look at his other items. I just bought 2 Brunsvigias from him. Before you faint at the sight of the prices, the two I bought are actually less than what I expected them to be.
I spend the summer hybridizing daylilies, and the fall trying to cross Amaryllis. I have 4 Nerines about to open, and I'm hoping they will do it soon before the Amaryllis fade.

Thanks for that info, Wylie! I looked at the page you linked to & found the Brunsvigias as well as the other hippeastrums. The cost of postage alone is as much as you would pay for a Christmas Amaryllis here in the UK!

They are certainly lovely plants! But I shall just have to continue with mine.

One of the reasons my daylilies look the way they do is because I bought some expensive named plants to use. The world is about to get hit by a problem of rising postage costs. If it wasn't discussed on the Pacific Bulb Forum, I wouldn't have known that Trump is claiming the US is hit by unfair postage costs and wants to take the US out of the Universal Postal Union, which will have a ripple effect. Amazon has recently raised its mailing costs on the .co.uk site.