Flowering in a Swedish Summer

[Ragged Robin]

Lovely Salvia and Scabiosa, Paul, and the Stipa barbata is fantastic in seed

[maggiepie]

You have a really good selection of flowers for this late in the season, Paul.
I particularly like the Satureja sp, how long does it flower?

[PaulM]

I guess the peak was when the picture was taken, but it started about a month earlier and there is still a little bit of flower now. It has got quite woody at the base. It will be interesting to see if it will survive the winter. I'll see if any seed has been produced.

[Onion]

Some Salvias, which have been flowering with me in August:

3) Salvia glutinosa
4) Salvia glutinosa close up

Paul,

thanks for the Salvia glutinosa ! I've got a yellow salvia from a friend in spring this year without a name. The flowers look like your Salvia glutinosa. Looking for pictures in the Net i see, it is Salvia glutinosa I have. 

[Paul T]

Paul and Stephen,

Some wonderful things in flower in Sweden right now, it would appear.  Thanks very much for showing us.  A number of things in here that I haven't seen before, and the lovely Digitalis and Salvias.  So different to here right now, where we're in the midst of spring of course.  Thanks for the pics.

[PaulM]

It has been a while since I took these pictures, but I hope they will still be appreciated.

1) Alcea nudiflora flowers later than other hollyhocks, but the big snow white flowers are spectacular.
2) Carduus glaucus- rosette
3) Carduus glaucus - flower
4) Clematis virginiana
5) Clematis virginiana -close up
6) Collinsonia canadensis is a nice hardy specimen from eastern North America
7) Collinsonia canadensis close up
Coreopsis tripteris

[PaulM]

1. Eryngium creticum in September
2. The same plant but frost-bitten in October
3. Eupatoriadelphus ( Eupatorium ) fistulosus
4. Same plant a month later - the growing season is coming to an end here in Sweden
5. Euthamia graminifolia
6. Solidago uliginosa
7. Solidago glomerata
8. Solidago glomerata with butterfly

[PaulM]

1. Liatris pilosa
2. Liatris pilosa close up
3. Liatris pilosa a cold morning
4. Monarda fistulosa
5. Monarda fistulosa again
6. New part of the rockery, which hopefully will be home to a nice Penstemon rupicola plant in a couple of years
7. ... Just one of the six seedlings survived in my absence ( most likely due to drought before the roots had time to reach down underneath the gravel ), but hopefully this natural selection will be to its advantage.
8. Ratibida pennata

[PaulM]

1) Rudbeckia laciniata
2) Rudbeckia laciniata close up
3) Rudbeckia subtomentosa
4) Rudbeckia subtomentosa in ice
5) Frost on seedheads of Rudbeckia occidentalis
6) Sanguisorba canadensis
7) Sanguisorba officinalis
Sorbus koehneana
9) Salvia caymanensis- a foul smelling species !

[PaulM]

1) Salvia exserta plant
2) Salvia exserta- close up of flowers
3) Serratula coronata var insularis
4) Strobilanthes attenuata
5) Strobilanthes attenuata close up
6) Panicum virgatum in a winter shroud
7) Lonicera involucrata with frost
Physocarpus opulifolius

[PaulM]

1) Winter cover over the seedling bed
2) Winter cover over the rockery
3) A wild angelica which has dispersed its seed, saying goodbye to 2009

This will probably the last from me in 2009 as well, as far as it comes to pictures. The seed catalogs will soon arrive !

[cohan]

nice images--i like the look of the frost--it has to be good for something!
is your rockery covered to keep of excess moisture?

[Ragged Robin]

Paul, wonderful images from the end of the season in your garden.  The frost on the plants and leaves is beautifully captured...you certainly protect your seedling bed and rockery from the coming cold - how cold will it get and how many hours of daylight now where you live?

[PaulM]

Hi ! Yes, the sheet is to keep off the moisture. It can rain in January, and we rarely have a reliable snowcover which lasts all through the winter. The coldest we get is around -25C, but that rarely happens. It's more usual that it drops to -18C, but the average temperature in February is -5 C. Now the sun rises at about 7.20 and sets at 16.20, so 9 hours of light. The hours daylight keeps decreasing until the end of December though.

[Giles]

Paul, it can rain in January here too.......