September 2025

26-9-2025 a day at Hayling Island, wish I'd had more time but managed to see a few things

yellow horned poppy 

yellow horned poppy with extravagant seed pods 

rock samphire forming seedheads

evening primrose, I don't know if this is a different species to what I see in the garden, will try to find out 

sea radish

sea kale

mallow rosette

annual wall rocket, not specifically a seaside plant but there was lots there, hangning on tenaciously in cracks in the tarmac

catsear

catsear flowers, bud, spent flowers

spent flowers

buds, flowers, seedhead

24-9-2025 speedwell (green field speedwell (Veronica agrestis)? but I'll check)

23-9-2025 coralberry (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus)

snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)

I still love violas

20-9-2025 datura seedhead

datura with bud and seedhead forming

red campion with bee

red deadnettle in bloom

cosmos buds

16-9-2025 that magic moment when the bindweed has lots of flowers

signs of Autumn

large rose covered with hips

lots of aster

hawthorn

sea buckthorn

18-9-2025 other plants I need to get in the ground are the houndstongue, I seem to have 8 plants

17-9-2025 I've been trying to get my self-seeded Verbena hastata in the ground for months but the ground's been rock-hard after months of drought and heatwave. It's finally been raining so trying to organise them. I have pots both just with Verbena hastata and some with other plants, 2 with Verbena bonariensis. 

a pot with Verbena hastata and Verbena bonariensis

13-9-2025 cosmos

marsh mallow, late flower, lots of seeds which I collected and planted

when I was collecting the seed, this stem came loose (it was self-seeded in a crack in my driveway), stuck it in a pot and will observe over coming months

Lamium maculatum Roseum

evening primrose

12-9-2025 the ivy is in bloom and lots of bees and hoverflies visiting between bouts of rain

Hornet mimic hoverfly visiting the ivy, terrible photo but it flew so fast it's the best I could get. There were two.  

Campanula with new flowers that have escaped the slugs. I'd not grown these until this new garden and the slugs have been fierce. I think these are Campanula persicifolia but will try to find the label. 

While looking at campanulas, I saw these last month on The Ridgeway and thought I should check identity, harebells (Campanula rotundifolia)

the latest Verbena hastata, now that we've had some rain, hope to plant this and others in the ground

11-9-2025 cosmos, variable flowers this year, sadly not as good as last year but I think that's down to the weather although the flowers don't make sense to me, they don't seem to match what I planted

the small white flowers I guess are Sea Shells which I did plant but the flowers are small, too small in my opinion 

I was wondering how to repot this rosebay willowherb, assuming it needed a larger pot if it was to bloom, when I noticed buds so I guess the pot is large enough. 

I wasn't sure if this branched multi-stemmed plant could bloom. I think it's on its way to it. Is there time this year?

this sea holly seedling is doing well, if it overwinters ok, will be nice flowers next year

the nepeta is quietly getting on with it, flowering, quite low in comparison with the tall structure of the garden (photo to follow)

10-9-2025 small self-seeded sunflower 

fringecups seedling I brought with me, repotted 

repotted again

sage, possibly

repotted sage

another sage-like seedling

11-9-2025 repotted

8-9-2025 scabious

7-9-2025  cosmos with a bee

zinnia with bee

green alkanet, I used to have so much of it, not so much in the new garden, I have 3 largeish plants getting established that will bloom next year, although one is in a crack on the patio so can't perform to its best

this is actually in a crack on the patio

6-9-2025 Cirsium botryodes plug plants from Growild Nursery, very pleased with these, looking good, potted up

they arrived well packed

good root growth

and good leaf growth

the pyracantha has masses of berries, I will be interested to observe if the berries are eaten by birds, also the teasels, of which I have quite a few but haven't noticed teasels being visited by birds and I've been growing teasels for years

I had fringecups in my last garden and it seemed to self-seed but when I got here I only found 1 tiny seedling in a pot I brought with me so when I saw it at a local plant sale, I bought one but it seems the leaves have turned red so wondering if it's Tellima grandiflora Rubra. It also has a blood sorrel in the pot.

1-9-2025  some welcome self-seeders, great hairy willowherb

and nasturtiums