September is my favourite time in the garden. The mornings and evenings are cool, but the days are generally sunny and warm.

The garden just thrives in September.

The Sneezeweed, also known as Heleniums, have started to bloom. They are one of my favourite fall flowers. On the left is the native version, on the right is a hybrid I bought this year. I thought flower had more red, but it turns out, it’s just the centres that are reddish. Still, it has those cute button flowers.

The fall asters are set to explode into colour – probably another day or two.

Meanwhile, the mums are already doing that!

The sedums are also exploding. I have two HUGE clumps in the catio.

This year they flopped quite a bit, so I think I’ll have to split them up come spring.

Other fall favourites include the purple coneflowers, black-eyed susans, and Obedient plant. Sadly, the Obedient plant isn’t as lush as it has been in past years – Lemmy has been pretty hard on that corner of the catio. I think in the spring I’ll dig some up and move it to safer spots.

Several of my large houseplants have been enoying a nice vaction in the back (shady ) corner of the Woodland garden – and they seem quite happy about it. I’ll have to bring them in in the next few weeks.

The sunflowers continue to shine! They’ve been a testament to starting seeds in seed snails. Though I lost over half of the seedlings to squirrels after I planted them out, the ones that survived have done amazing!

The cosmos will be started that way next year – it’s seeds snails from here on out!

I hope everything is beautiful and lush in your life!