Arthur in the Garden!

Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’ (Witch Hazel)

Fortune’s Sweet Olive (Osmanthus x fortunei)

Basjoo banana (Musa basjoo)

Eastern Red Maple (Acer rubrum)

Salvia puberula ‘El Butano”. 

And Camellia sasanqua – unknown cultivar

Of course- Buttefly Ginger : Hedychium coronarium

It’s not over! The Prunus mume will be next!

We have our usual drought conditions here in the piedmont of North Carolina in August and September but sometimes a hurricane or tropical storm will bring rain.

Some plants like viburnum will drop all their leaves.

Autumn clematis bloom and Shiso/perilla, too!

And other fall bloomers and growers and plants respond to the cooler temps!

Flowering gingers – Daniel Weeks

Pickerel rush in the pond

Rose-of-Sharon 

Another flowering ginger- hedychium coccineum 

Lycoris or hurricane lily 

And bananas!

Time for the garden to slow down…..

Autumn clematis is blooming and it is so fragrant!

Fall is almost here!

update: now on 29aug2017

Very fragrant!