Blooming Friday -- September Peak

The star of the garden every September is always the Bidens. Some years we also have Bidens in the ditches next to the pastures, 1200 feet on each side. Not this year, though. I think DH mowed down the young seedlings in May. The ditches need to be mowed every year to keep the woody plants down, but we need to try to get it done in late winter or very early spring instead of April or May.

But there are a lot of Bidens in the garden.

At first they start off looking like any other garden plant, with
a regular amount of blooms, and then there is an explosion of color.

Something is needed to offset all of that yellow -- this is a Knockout
rose, whose garishness I sometimes don't appreciate and sometimes I do.

Buddleia 'Potter's Purple'

View from an upstairs window.

On a gentler note, pink and white Lespedeza.

Hibiscus syriacus

Crinum 'Royal White'

Hardy ginger lily. It has a heavenly fragrance like that of Japanese honeysuckle but with more coconut tones.

Mexican petunia

Spiderwort 'Zwanenburg Blue'

and roses. This is the tea rose 'Duchesse de Brabant' with Transylvanian sage.

Rugosa rubra with Buddleia Potter's Purple in the background

Buds of the tea rose 'Devoniensis'

'Aloha'

and the lovely 'Clotilde Soupert'.

For more Blooming Friday posts, visit Katarina at roses and stuff.