Bought at the National Botanic Garden. Its beautiful colour was first pointed out to me by Sue H, and, even with my poor colour vision, I can appreciate it now. The photo doesn’t do it justice.

Good late summer and autumn bedding for pots, and for beds if I can find space.

The purple loosestrife in the pond is the better, and later flowering, of two plants.

The cannas were bought last year and kept outside in their pots over winter.

Pink and white lilies bought in flower last year and left over winter in their pots have just finished. Superb display. See 28 Jul 19.

All my lilies do much better in pots. The fresh bulbs and bulbs from my pots that I planted in my beds haven’t been good.

No sign of lily beetle yet.

The cannas are quite compact, but with good leaves (if rather eaten) and flowers. The white lily is superb. Slightly scented, and it got going just as the pots of Lilium regale came to an end.

These were root-pruned this spring. They look pretty healthy, although there’s no sign of any flowers. Eaten leaves are normal. The leaves on the old stems have not grown very symmetrically, and some hackery may be necessary next spring. See Root pruning

The old stems of both these both died and they shot up new ones. I quite like the columnar form on the left. I might cut back the one on the right to make it more bushy.

For some reason this was the only one of last autumns root cuttings to survive, but it looks quite healthy.

A total of 6 bulbs from Harts planted in two pots in February. Very good. Strong scent. Entirely self-supporting so far.

Still going strong after 2½ years in this pot with tulips.

See also Jun 18, Mar 18, Nov 17