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It’s a shame that idr what cultivar this hybrid tea rose is,

But she’s still a charmer. She bulked up quite a bit this year, it’s no wonder she’s the last survivor of our previous attempts of planting/growing hybrid tea roses.

New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)

The native floral flag of autumn. I’d almost call it the Queen of Autumn Wildflowers at this rate. This was taken before I moved the Asters from the ruined old Mega Garden into the new House addition garden.

~~So that’s my excuse for you guys seeing different photos of my garden New England Asters twice shush.~~

The gardens in Stratford have some BIG Zinnias.

As one who’s had poor luck growing them in the past, I’m a little envious.

The planted butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa) was producing its first ever flowers! A modest set of lovely orange florets.

So they can reach adulthood from seed in nary 1-2 years… good to know.

Considering its siblings in the greenhouse have been dwindling in health (now confirmed to be due to the greenhouse being too shaded), I am very glad I decided to plant 3 into the gardens while they were still decent.

The Caryopteris was only just opening up its florets at the time of these photos yet the pollinators (bees & hoverflies) were going ballistic!

In the time it took me to hang my laundry they were all swarming between the Caryopteris, the New England asters, and the unopened showy sedum flowers!

I wasn’t planning to get or germinate any coneflower (Echinacea) seeds this year, but a smart perennials growing business is an opportunistic one.

Snip snip ✂️ into the seed bag these go~

The photos don’t entirely encapsulate the abnormal size this jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) fruithead has.

While not shown the flowerstalk is at least as tall as the length of my forearm! This is definitely a fruitful year. Perfect for seedbed experiments~

~~though as I say that all of their harvest is going into one giant metal planter for a seedbed so idk if that can be called an experiments but shhhh~~

I felt such a temptation to get these cacti and succulents to add to the collection but… on a self-ban until my current collection thrives and/or I get more free growing space. Oh well; next time.

Horsechesnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum) at the local church. A harbinger of autumn~

Bit of plant decorum on the Canadian Thanksgiving table; wild aster, showy sedum, and mini white pumpkins.