Through the garden gate--September

It's a month or two since I contributed to Sarah's 'Through the garden gate ' post, but things are moving on in our new garden, so I thought I would share a little bit of  it with you.

September and October are lovely months in the garden as the colours change. The trees beyond our garden are taking on their autumn colours and every day the leaves are changing from green to yellow or red. Our new garden is starting to look better as we spend time working on it. I have planted up borders and this month I have been so much enjoying seeing some colour. 

I bought a hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight'. It has lovely greeny white flowers which are now starting to take on some pink tones.

We discovered another local garden centre  recently which had a sale of perennial plants. I bought a lovely yellow/orange  crocosmia which has a dark ring in the centre. This is brightening up my new border at the moment and contrasts well with a dark red grass.

Also in the border I planted some hardy geraniums which I brought with me from our old garden when we moved house. I have no idea of their name, only that they have bright pink flowers. They have no flowers at this time of year but the foliage is starting to go red and goes well with the other plants around them, giving the border a lovely autumnal look. 

 In another bed I have planted a pink Japanese anemone. It has been brightening up the border for a few weeks now.

Our garden is a little bit sparse yet, but I know it will improve as plants grow and fill out the borders. There is a lot of work still to be done, but next year it will look much better.

Thanks to Sarah at 'Down by the Sea' for hosting this monthly post.