Early September Gander Garden Tour

Hello everyone and thank you for checking out this early September garden tour. It's early morning now around the end of the first week of September and this hydrangea in my front flower bed is starting to look amazing. It's called Unique and it has very lacy bloom heads on it. Here is my front flower bed and I also have some of the perennial sunflowers here and the yellow. I pull out a lot of these every year because you have to be very careful or they will take over your entire garden. But this phlox is the most well-behaved and gorgeous flower that anyone could have. I wish I knew the exact cultivar but I don't know that. I'm sorry but it is just glorious. Little hints of white on very dark deep pink flowers and it blooms for weeks and it gets a little bigger every year but it doesn't spread aggressively at all. It is incredible. The shasta daisies are getting few and far between now because I've been deadheading them but behind here we have some echinacea that are now blooming well and this is my favorite cosmos. This one is called Snow Puff and it's a double click variety and that one is starting to look amazing and behind it there are more of the hydrangea flowers which are so so pretty and I even have a couple of buds. There is one on my cafe ole dahlia that I planted. I planted two of those in here but boy are they going to be late bloomers. Hopefully they will actually bloom before the frost hits. You can see my window box there in the background and you can see the sincerity dahlias with the creeping jenny in the container there and those are doing fantastic. Those I highly recommend. They've been in bloom for oh my at least six weeks maybe two months so they're early bloomers but the cafe ole I've been waiting for but I have my fingers crossed that I will see it in bloom and as you can see my front flower garden this time of year is mostly pink and white and here is a different angle of the echinacea and the cosmos and the flocks and the hydrangea with the sun shining directly down on it. Very happy with this area. One thing that surprises me every year is how well this lobelia does that I have planted here right next to this little june pasta and the name of this one is electric blue and there are three plants that were in bloom when I purchased them and they're planted between some cat's pajamas nepeta and the cat's pajamas which is a catnip they have gone over a little bit now and they're not doing that great but the lobelia is still looking good right here all along this edge it has covered each one has covered about 18 inches and it stops right here at this hosta and this bed gets about a half sun per day and over here on the opposite side in front of my gazebo is a single plant that I snuck in of this electric blue lobelia and it's snuggled in between a fever few that's going to bloom in a little while this is one that's self-seeded and in front of a foxglove that hopefully will be blooming next year but quite amazing at this time of year on this seat of this swing that's on my back deck is my favorite place to sit and next to it right now are these amazing coleus in September and here we have crimson gold which I actually grew from seed and here is wicked witch which I picked up at a local nursery and down here is a dwarf mosaic coleus which I also grew from seed and it's quite surprising how easy it is to grow coleus from seed and next to that is just a collection of pretty flowers here in a container and if you look beyond you'll see through the rails the blue the electric blue lobelia that I was talking about before so you can see even from a distance it has quite a presence in the garden and of course begonias always do so well here and there's some lobelia in here as well white lobelia and a geranium and I'm very very happy to sit in this little corner on my swing and enjoy the warm early fall weather also I find a little surprising how some of the foxgloves put out such great secondary blooms if you look closely at this one you can tell that I cut back the main flower stock but I did leave a few flowers on the back on the bottom so it could self-seed and here now it has sent up this secondary bloom which is quite pretty and unexpected in September and right here are a few more of the secondary blooms this one's on a Pam's Choice again I cut back the main flower stock leaving just a few flowers on the bottom so they could go to seed and yeah oh there's a mumblebee enjoying this September foxglove this is a purple belvine that's doing pretty well here in September on this trellis and it's been chewed up a lot by those tent caterpillars don't know if you've had a lot of them in your area but we have been here in the Gander area absolutely taken over by tent caterpillars this year and hopefully they say it's a boom and bust type thing and I hope next year it will be a bust and they won't be back