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Helping the backend of the summer last a little bit longer!

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These are the Asters (Michaelmas Daisies) in my garden, I think they are helping the summer close down slowly, I hope you like them. Some are a little out of focus but they are all different kinds and different colours, some are very similar but slightly different as I think you will see.

The first picture is of one that I purchased late on last year, this is the first flowering of this one. I love the colour and it is so different from most that you see in the garden centres. This one (well three plants) was purchased last autumn from a garden centre which is about to close down if it hasn’t already. I shall miss Hall Farm Garden Centre at Harpswell nr. Gainsborough. It is a real beauty the buds are amazing hope you agree.

This one is close by and quite a blue one a little short species, but lovely all the same. Don’t think it is quite an accurate colour representation, it is much bluer than it appears on the photograph (well I think so)

This one is much taller and is at the back of the border, it is an amazing colour (sorry it is a little out of focus) but think you can get the colour of this amazing aster from the picture even so.

This one is a short one again and at the front of my middle border. Quite a pretty dark pink one.

This one is the first one I ever bought again it is taller but quite a bluey/purple colour love the centre of this one.

This one is the latest one I purchased earlier on in the year very similar in colour to the smaller pink one above but just a little bit taller than it and more petals.

I never used to like asters but then I realise they do bring so much colour into the backend of the summer borders that they are well worth their place, I hope you like them as much as I have grown to like them. I prefer the pinker ones but the lighter bluey/purple ones are very nice too. I have even spent some more of that pension on some more which hopefully will arrive next week – they will fill in the gaps that have appeared in the big border. (I just could not help myself) lol.

Enjoy your gardens it will not be long before they are all dying back and we have to start all over again. Well that is all of those of us who live in the Northern Hemisphere all you lucky Southern Hemisphere gardeners will be looking forward to your Summertime.

Hope you all have had as much pleasure from your gardens this season as I have – ENJOY!

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lovely colours, well worth growing! i saw them next to some tall grasses yesterday ~ that seemed to work very well.
I still have cosmos out and one clump of michaelmas daisies ~ perhaps i should look out for a pink one ~ they look good in your garden.

25 Sep, 2011

 

Thank you Sticki - I don't have grasses in the garden borders but I do have one that is not hardy in a tub and I love it. I bet they do work well with grasses - it is an idea to try if you have room, which is what I am running out of now. lol. Thank you for your very quick response I was just adding some of the asters to my photographs and you replied you are on the ball today. lol.

25 Sep, 2011

 

its very wet here olive, OH is doing some work ~ for work so i dont have to go out today!! computer is in the kitchen ~ im never far from GoY!!!
I wouldnt have thought about the daisies and grasses but they looked so lovely together ~ im no good at putting the right things together. also what you say about space is important ~ sometimes you need to look at things from a distance ~ my garden isnt big enough for that! i will put a photo on for you ~ of the grasses and the daisies.

25 Sep, 2011

 

I look forward to that Sticki, my oh is watching world cycling championships so I have been pottering out in garden and thought I would take the opportunity to put the photos on. I am not that good when it comes to combinations of plants, Karensue is good at it but I am afraid I have not got the knack like some have. I tend to just plonk stuff in the borders and hope it works, which it usually does.

25 Sep, 2011

 

have a look at this garden:
http://www.ashwoodnurseries.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=594

he is a master! i have done a couple of blogs on his garden ~ it never ceases to amaze me.

i do the same as you ~ see something nice and then find a space for it!! its when i see gardens as the above i wish i could get it right.

25 Sep, 2011

 

Will look next thanks Sticki.

25 Sep, 2011

 

Those pictures are amazing will go back and spend some more time looking through your blogs and pictures in a mo. will add you to favourites and then I shall not miss any of your pictures thanks again.

25 Sep, 2011

 

thats very kind ~ thanks Oliveoil

25 Sep, 2011

 

I have bluey/purple in my garden Olive, they were here when I moved in, they just mingle with everything else and as you say are a bit of late colour for this time of the year, I do like the pink ones, must keep an eye out for them.
Lovely photo`s, its dry but cold here so pottering has been kept to a minimum today, armchair gardening on here instead, lol...

25 Sep, 2011

 

It is quite dry here today Lincslass but on and off we have had drizzle, nothing much but very cloudy and quite a chill in the air. Just been pottering and tidying up fallen apples and repairing field fences today. Quite a lazy day for us today. Glad you like the photos. I have been looking at early spring pictures in my collection and wondering where the summer has gone to. Apparently we are to have a heatwave next week, I wonder if they have got it right - fingers crossed.

25 Sep, 2011

 

Lovely blog Oliveoil. I agree ....they are beautiful...especially the pink and dark violet ones. Do you have Frickarti Monch? It has a bigger flower, flowers earlier but carries on just as late and has a more delicate 'airy' habit. You would like it I think.

25 Sep, 2011

 

Yes Olive, its s`posed to be very warm. I `ve put my order in for the next 5mths, lol...

25 Sep, 2011

 

Karen will look at that one do not think I have seen it before.

Lincslass it would be nice if it lasted for a couple of months think 5 might be pushing it a bit. lol.

25 Sep, 2011

 

You two are fantasists! :)))))) We'll be lucky to get 2 weeks.....do you remember the 2 weeks of summer we had back in April? Somebody said to me at the time 'well, that's our summer then' and I tutted and muttered about them being negative and 'we're a' doomed' and all that...but they were RIGHT!!! lol!

26 Sep, 2011

 

keep telling you we are in for an Indian Summer and they don't start until October. lol. (I can dream) maybe I did dream it eh!!! LOL :o) Now I am really off out into the garden spent too much time on here already.

26 Sep, 2011

 

:)) Yes, get on with your work!

26 Sep, 2011

 

Beautiful Asters Olive.....I didnt used to like them either, but i love them now....I love the bright pink one, do you know the name of it please?....I wonder if its the same as the beauty Spritz has shown us....:>)

27 Sep, 2011

 

If it is the first picture Moti I have added it to my photos and named it on there, not sure which one you like, but I can see Spritz has the same one on her plant catalogue lists. Hope you find it because I cannot remember the name of the top of my head. lol. Hopeless with names just know it is an Aster. I had to search for the label to name it. lol.

27 Sep, 2011

 

Now here's a genus of plants I have never, ever grown in any of my gardens! ... Now I'm wondering why not .... they are very pretty, Barbara and, as you say, a welcome addition to the end of the season ... I love the very first one ... stunning colour ... :o)))

28 Sep, 2011

 

Yes Shirley they are well worth their place, I love that first one too. Have put a name to it on my photographs page. Have you had sunshine too this week? We are so warm in this part of the country, all good though as I am spending lots of time out in the garden, tidying things up and getting ready to shut down plants ready for winter months. Hope you are having a good time in your gardens too.

28 Sep, 2011

 

I shall view your photos in a moment, Barbara ... we have had lovely warm and sunny weather ... the forecast up until Monday is sun, sun, sun with temps.of 20, 21 and 22 ... perfect for mowing lawns, weeding the plot etc. ... :o)))

28 Sep, 2011

 

Great for doing all the jobs in the garden, just been out weeding some of the borders and having a tidy up before it gets too hot. It was amazing weather yesterday, far too hot for working in.

29 Sep, 2011

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