Here is my thalictrum, it's a cloud of purple right now, with a few peonies finishing blooming.

Molly, you can see your flowers best, so compare yours with the photos in the article about candy lilies, below. The 3rd photo shows Blackberry Lily (now Iris domestica) and the rest are Candy Lilies:

http://amycampion.com/candy-lilies-why-i-love-em-how-to-grow-em/

wow, lat62, I never before realized that’s what your handle was based on. I’m at 43 deg and think that’s challenge enough. Your thalictrum is gorgeous!

Thanks Party_music I will check it out!

Beautiful gardens everyone! I am mostly a hosta gardener, but due to an increase in sunlight, I am trying to redesign an area in my back yard along the fence with perennials. I am looking at white anemone Hororine J (???🤔🤔) Karl Koerster grass, red hot poker (orange ) and phlox. So soaking lots of info here! 👍🏽

debr

Here’s a few from me:
debra

@lat62: your thalictrum is just gorgeous!! 😍

@djacob Z6a SE WI: thanks! Echinaceas, for some reason do really well in my garden. The fancy hybrid ones have only been here for three years, but Bright Star has been here for at least 6-7 years. It gently reseeds and the young plants seem to be true to seed. It blooms for 9 weeks, and I love the color that it ages too. It’s a tall one, it grows to 4 feet. I highly recommend it if you can find it!

Hope this helps!

Here are a few more pics:

Bright Star and lily Samantha

South Seas

Claudine’s Charm

I forget what this is

Oregano Drops of Jupiter

Borg Technology

What gorgeous plants & gardens! I am late to the party.

mazerolm the Daylily you forgot the name of is Destined to See.

Gentian dahurica

Sanguisorba Little Angel

Macleaya cordata

Iris s. Painted Woman has still got the odd bloom which is pretty amazing. I was on a mission and snapped this quickly missing part of her.

Mix of Phlox

Phlox Starfire

Echinops Veitch's Blue. I showed this in July but now the flowers are present on some.

Tansy

Gorgeous plants and gorgeous photos, everyone!

I'm glad the name wasn't 'Unforgettable'. :O)

A few more.

Red Riding Hood

Think Pink

Big Bird

Oenothera macrocarpa & Salvia yangii (formerly Perovskia) just planted last fall.

Iris domestica formerly Belamcanda. It is hard to keep up with the name changes!

Kirengeshoma koreana

@peren.all: thanks so much for identifying my daylily!!

My last daylily to bloom, Tigrillo Afternoon:

Maz that's gorgeous!

:)

Dee

partymusic, Anchorage is really at latitude 61 but I'm too lazy to change my name :) i think it's the dampness that is limiting when it comes to coneflowers and other meadow bloomers that want hotter summers... even supposed spring bloomers like baptisia are very sulky here. But what does grow is indeed fabulous, as are everybody's gardens!

I think mazerolm has colder winters? but maybe hotter summers allowing for more variety like the awesome coneflowers and beautiful daylilies... they survive for me but just won't come around to blooming before frost. Mazerolm, what a wonderful variety you have!

Heres a few more from my droopy messy yard for August:

In the perimeter, outside my 'cultivated' area, we have natives galore, like this devil's club (Oplopanax horridus) (not to mention all of the grass, calamagrostis I think?) . it's everywhere.

and our elderberry (sambucus racemosa) . I enjoy the vibrant red

This coral charm was hiding, iris moving in on her

I like this gentian but the flowers are tiny

Great great work all. (And thank you GH for starting this month's thread)

Two helianthus...

"Happy Days"

AND Divaricatus

Baby Joe Pye Weed:

Rudbeckia Triloba:

Maz, your Brighr star with Samantha is so pretty ❤️

Jeana Phlox:

Still quite a lot blooming in this section. Astilbe 'Pumila' up front.

Sanguisorba obtusa

Sanguisorba 'Tanna'

Eryngium - Sea Holly

Cardinal flower

Final Touch

Janice Brown

Crimson Pirate

Hey rouge not Splendide but I have been really impressed with Thalictrum rochebrunianum Lavender Mist. I planted it about this time last year.

I like the foliage of this racemosa (?) with the astilbe color... looks like I might get some blooms on the cimifuga, or bugbane, or ... what is it called?

Wish I was better at knowing the scientific names and cultivars!

Lovely lat62. Mine is at the same stage. Yours is likely Actaea simplex (Atropurpurea group) which includes Brunette, Hillside Black Beauty, Pink Spike and others. I have all 3 and there is little difference. They were formerly Cimicifuga but now are Actaea. Bugbane is the common name. All we really need to know is that they are terrific plants.

Peren, such a beautiful view with the astilbe. I Love your massive gardens! I too have Lavender mist, although not as pretty and full as yours….

Thank you GH! Well everyone knows I am a huge fan of yours. I did put in a group of 3 Lavender Mist lol!

Thanks peren.all, Hillside Black Beauty rings a bell:))

Appreciate the help on the myriad names for this plant, it's one of the more confusing to name...when friends ask I feel stymied, now I will just say bugbane, look it up!

Your pictures are the best, wonderful to see!

Peren thank you, and I hope you know I’m a huge fan of yours also…of both your gardens and for your wealth of knowledge!

My lavender mist would be much fuller as I’m sure I divided mine being the frugal gardener that I am….

Some recent pictures of mid August bloomers - summer goes by too quickly!

The Pearl Tuberose

Tuberous begonias and Achimenes

Lotus blossom

Stephanotis (stuffy noses) buds

Basil Langkuri

Morning glories

Pereskia and Mirabilis multiflora

I am always impressed by how well Herbstonne does in less than optimal conditions:

Here is one that I planted years back in the adjacent park. It is surrounded by established Buckthorn trees, Garlic Mustard and thistle and yet it always seems to be able to cope and put on a show.

Blue Rive II Hardy Hibiscus:

Oooh, I have just ordered seeds of Lavender Mist from Jelitto (along with a heap of penstemons, and quite a few of their green roof mixes (cos I am going to re-roof my allotment shed over the winter, so I thought, why not?)

All my hemerocallis finished ages ago. I like orange, but Mauna Loa was altogether too much, even for me - destined for daughter's allotment next year.

This is salvia month, along with sphaeralceas, another go-round for the altroemerias and a late show from the lewisias. D-i-L has managed to actually get a photo from the phone onto my laptop but she couldn't remember how she did it...so we are still plumbing the depths of techno-despair. Still taking pics in hope that over winter, I will have something to drool over.

Oh yeah, heliopsis Bleeding Hearts is flowering (its first year), looking rather nice with verbena rigida.

Have been eating french beans everyday for the last month...not to mention endless frittatas. I grow a much limited selection of vegetables these days - potatoes, tomatoes, courgettes, carrots, scallions and french beans as most of the vegetable beds have become flower beds).

Gladioli are blooming!

Forgot to post my favorite gladiolus:

Mazerolm you must be so far behind me up in the frozen north lol. My glads bloomed back in...June?

I planted them 15 years ago when I was selling bouquets, and they are not supposed to overwinter, but I had about a half dozen that did, and also spread, so now I have a sprinkling of them throughout my old cutting garden. Of course the one that does the best is the one whose color I like least, a coral color similar to your last photo. But it is growing on me after all these years, and I am coming round to it. Funny, I cut all the coral ones that were in bloom at the time and put them in a bouquet for my daughter. She was delighted with them. Kept telling me how gorgeous the color was! Lol different tastes, I guess!

My dahlias are finally starting to roll, but no photos yet

:)

Dee

@Dee: wow your gladioli bloom in June? I didn’t expect it to be so early in your zone 6.

I planted my first glads last summer and tried overwintering them indoors. I was really surprised at how easy it was, compared to dahlias.

And isn’t it funny how taste can change over the years, when it comes to color? And even over a single season! I find myself loving cool colors in Spring, but warm colors in high summer.

Marie

Patrinia scabiosifolia grown from seed

Agastache rugosa passed on by self sowing from my long gone original that I started from seed years ago

Sanguisorba officinalis

Thalictrum rochebrunianum struggling to stand up straight. Also from seed

Nymphoides peltata in my pond

Zingiber mioga. We eat the unopened flower buds but there are so many I left some to bloom

@Heruga (7a Northern NJ) I like that Sanguisorba officinalis :)

A mishmash of plants in this picture:

Nearing the end of the month and there are blooms still to come.

Goldsturm with oregano.

Sanguisorba 'Pink Tanna'

Ligularia

Miscanthus blooms starting.

Vernonia crinita 'Mammuth'

Sanguisorba tenuifolia 'Alba'

Gentian septemfida var. lagodechiana

Baby Joe

Phlox

Hey 'peren', I know I have said this before but I want to hold myself to it..next season ie Id love to come visit. (And if you ever venture SW please come visit.)

Blue Paradise on July 11:

And the same plant today, 6 weeks later...still with reasonable blooms :)

rouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a) A visit would be beyond fabulous any time you like!

Oh my word, peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada, the Sanguisorba tenuifolia 'Alba'!!! Where on earth can I buy this in Ontario? Or, did you grow it from seed? It is stunning.

lowville5 zone5b/6 ON, Canada it is a stunning plant isn't it. I did originally grow it from seed but it was so long ago I can't recall where I got it from.

ETA: I could send you seed if you were interested.

Oh boy, peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada, how kind! Yes, please! I'll DM you.

lowville5 zone5b/6 ON, Canada I just sent you an email message.

Happy August 31, everybody - here is my veronicastrum as of today (finally dry) . they've held up well without staking in very windy wet weather - thumbs up:)

Joe pye weed on the way...

I enjoy the stachys officinalis but they really take their time

And another veronicastrum, 'fascination' down on it's side

My garden is no longer a symphony as I used to think of it, but a cacophany - weeding is not happening much due to inclement weather and laziness and stiff joints . Oh well, I still love it!

last call, I have burning hearts too, grew from seed based on this group, thanks thanks!

Gentianopsis crinata.

I have been really impressed with Thalictrum rochebrunianum Lavender Mist. I planted it about this time last year.

Hey 'peren', it is just today that I clicked on the photo in your post. That is a very healthy vigorous "Lavender Mist". Very nice!

Thanks rouge, I hope you see it in person next summer!!