September strawberries

I have been away for a spell. The garden has survived without me; some new things pop up, and old things continue to delight. The wild strawberries continue to produce.

The honeysuckle flowers on:

as does the campanula:

The evening primrose produces more buds just when you think it has all finished:

and despite cutting the growth back we still have a few left on the violas:

Half a dozen cosmos plants produced one tiny flower, but I came home to find it had tried again:

We had pretty much given up on the red hot poker; I cut it back last autumn as instructed and all summer it has looked leafy but no buds, but suddenly it decided it would flower after all:

And the sedum, which has rather taken over the space, has also finally bloomed:

I drove down to Devon in a hire car, which was most fortunate because I had rather a lot of plants to bring back with me:

I ordered a crab apple tree from Chris Bowers and it arrived too, but I think the spring blossom will make a better photo.

Stay safe. Be kind. Have more plants than space to plant them.