Mellow

I tend to wake up quite early in the morning these days, my aching joints won't allow me to lie in bed for long. I have to get up and start moving about. I enjoy these light early mornings when I sit at the dining room window with a cup of tea and look out at the garden.

There's a lovely mellow look to the borders now which is especially so early in the morning. For a while during August  the borders seemed to lack colour--it's that gap when the early summer flowers have faded and the late summer ones haven't yet come into flower. But looking around the garden now I can see that colour seems to have come back to the garden. It's a lovely  mix  of dark pinks, yellow, bronze which combined with the faded seed heads of the earlier flowers gives the garden that autumnal look.

There's a clump of pink/lilac phlox in the top border with a white one behind called 'David'. The scent is lovely and does remind me of summer.  I rarely remember the names of plants but my son-in-law and my brother are both called David.  Last year I gave these plants a 'Chelsea chop' in May and they didn't do at all well, so I didn't bother this year and I'm pleased with the results. The sedums are in flower too now, adding to the pink theme.

In another border the rudbekias and heleniums are looking good but I think the star of the garden at the moment is the lovely bright yellow grass--Hakonechloa Aureola (I had to look that up, that's a name I definitely can't remember).