Proteas ticking over…

Self sown cape fuchsia in the world narrowest prairie™, no idea how it managed to get there

Fuchsia hybrid which I’ve forgotten the name of

❤️2nd Canna seedling post in a week, hope I'm not getting too redundant & ask 🙏forgiveness in advance.😎 Each a unique reward for sowing collected seed.🌱 This elegant, opaque deep watermelon has a look quite different from the rounded salmon I posted. Another keeper! Cannaceae

Well this was meant to be Tricyrtis ‘Moonlight Treasure’ but clearly isn’t. I did have Tricyrtis sunningensis before until the badger took exception to it and this came from the same place so perhaps mystery solved?

Vitex and Punica

Lambertia formosa is getting back into it with an autumnal flush

Clerodendron bungei spent ages in bud which i prefer to the actual flower colour

What an incredible Orobanchaceae!

The National Botanical Garden in Kyiv may lose most of its collection due to future blackouts | EcoPolitic ecopolitic.com.ua/en/news/the-na…

Hedychium greenei can be found near the Japanese Garden Ventnor Botanic Garden

Each stem of Hedychium villosum var. tenuiflorum (a less villous plant is harder to imagine) has chosen to flower sequentially this year #hedychium

Tecomaria capensis

Bidens aurea ‘Hannays Lemon Drop’ flowering in bone dry crappy soil. I’d given up any hope of seeing it

Berberis ‘Cabaret’ looking cheerfully bicoloured

My adolescent Illicium simonsii still has considerably more vim than it does vigour. A single late season flower.

Abutilon striatum, the inside of the flower is a trip

From a few scraps of unfrozen rhizhome I was left with after winter 22-23 it seems ‘Sorung’ survived. I have another plant I hope will prove to be ‘Stephen’ #hedychium

Hedychium ‘Raffillii’, a small flowerhead. Will be giving it a good feed next year #hedychium

The last day of summer really