00:00Well, it's been a terrible summer, but it hasn't all been bad in the garden, so I'll
00:20take you around now and show you some of the late summer bloomers that I have in my garden.
00:24And hopefully I'll get a few ideas for next year, but it's now late August, and a few
00:32surprises sometimes grow on, so I'll just turn the camera around and we'll have a look.
00:42As you can see, most things have started dying back now, and they're getting seed pods here.
00:47I'll wait till these turn black, these poppy seed pods, and then start collecting them
00:53for planting next year.
00:55Still a few calendula, I haven't been as diligent as I should have been in collecting the seeds,
01:04because well the weather has just been so atrocious, but you can see the seed heads
01:08developing here, and once they turn kind of black and look like they're dying off, that's
01:18the best time to collect them.
01:22Here I have godisha, or clarkia, which are beautiful big blooms on these stocky, kind
01:31of shrubby stems.
01:34Very easy to grow, took no special effort at all, just left them outside since they
01:39were seedlings in late February, early March, and they've just come on great.
01:45And there's different coloured ones, you can see over the other side, there's like purples
01:48as well.
01:53Very pretty flower, I just wish I'd brought them up towards the top of the border, I had
01:56no idea how tall they'd be.
02:00See weeds kind of taking over around here as well.
02:02Still some cornflower blooming away, they've been blooming since June.
02:08And here are some pale purple cosmos that were grown from seed as well.
02:21The real surprise, and this has been another surprise actually, this is a love-and-a-must,
02:28and I didn't plant any love-and-a-must, so this may be stray seed from a packet, or it
02:37may have been in the ground when it was dug up, but you can see here these amazing looking
02:43seed pods once the flowers die off.
02:46The flowers themselves are beautiful as well, pale blue, but these are great for dried flower
02:54arrangements if you're into that.
02:58And then up here we have the sweet pea are doing very well, they're probably doing the
03:03best, they like a milder climate, they don't mind the rain, but the wind has decimated
03:10some out the front deck, but out the back they've survived grand, and they're thriving
03:15there.
03:16And it's September next week, so it's great to see them still blooming.
03:21And then just in amongst that, you can see this big tall one here with all the heads
03:26on it, it's over six foot, I'm an inch off six foot, but this is way taller than me now.
03:33And that is a hollyhock that was planted in March, shouldn't really have flowered till
03:37next year, but that anyway.
03:39And just all around it here is more hollyhock, which are starting to open, you can see there
03:45this...
03:46I'm just going to take a little photo of this hollyhock, maybe up like that, and then we'll
03:59go round to the other side and see what's blooming there.
04:06On this side we've got an even paler pink hollyhock, you can see it there, and on here,
04:26oh there's a white one now opening, and these are edible flowers as well, so they're big
04:31big flowers.
04:32And just for comparison, that's my hand beside that one, really really pretty, and then some
04:44dark pink ones in there, and another pale one just starting to open here, and more sweet
04:56pea, some cosmos which has not yet opened, I don't see any heads on it, but a nice white
05:04one, and a beautiful two toned purple one here, and these have been blown over in the
05:16wind, these are gladiola, there's a peach one, and a few lemon coloured ones, and here
05:28we have more goudisha, still more buds on these actually, they've been flowering now
05:41for a good few weeks, and they'll definitely grow again, here we have a lot more calendula
05:46as well, probably the stand out in terms of longevity for flowering, in my garden at
05:54least, and still quite a few cornflowers going as well, so that's everything round that side,
06:01and then we'll go round the front now and have a look, so round here we have a few pansies
06:06still blooming, you can see some of the casualties here from the wind, some of the dahlias were
06:15damaged when the window boxes fell off, more cosmos, first time I ever grew, well nearly
06:22everything here, but the cosmos are very nice flowers, very easy to grow as well, petunias,
06:32these are nice pink petunias, and some starlet ones as well, and then over here we've got
06:42some miniature sunflowers, which were brilliant, and worked really well on a pot, they're just
06:48only about a foot tall, but they've big big flowers on them, there's more of them, they're
06:52kind of dying off now like these ones, but the flowers lasted for ages as well, and abelia,
07:01and alyssum, also great great tiny flowers, they're all summer colour even, and here we
07:10have some two toned angel wings, schizanthus, and some lobelia side by side, and that is some more
07:23sweet pea, but these are a little bit worse for wear, and down here we have oxeye daisies,
07:30which I tried to grow on the ground but they were eaten alive, but I stuck a few in a pot,
07:35and haven't had many flowers from them as yet in a way, but I'm not sure I'd bother with them
07:44again because they're very tasty for slugs apparently, and more calendula there, there's
07:52quite a bit more growing than I thought there was, it's amazing when you actually look in detail you
07:57see things you missed, and more petunias as well, so and these little, these are Spanish
08:06brocade, French marigolds, and these have flowered all summer long, they've been great, a handful of free
08:16seeds that I got, and I'm gonna, I would definitely grow these again, I'd collect the seed heads from
08:24these whenever, some of them are dying back already, but they're very damp so I don't want to bring them
08:29in damp, and that is everything, oh and just one last thing I want to show you is, here's one plant
08:41that absolutely loves the rain, and that is hydrangea, the clue's in the name I suppose,
08:50hydra, water, but it's all these different sort of dark pink and lilac kind of flowers all in the
09:01one plant, so that's the update
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