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Looks like Salvia involucrata can be included as a "giant of Stonecrop." This planting, seen with one of the Stonecrop steeple trellises on the left, is covered with flower stalks which are now about six feet high.
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Salvia involucrata
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Salvia involucrata
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A close-up of a stalk of the fuzzy magenta flowers with their "signature" ball of buds on top of the stalk.
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And 'Purple Majesty', a clone of S. guaranitica, continues to star in the Flower Garden.
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Salvia 'Purple Majesty'
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Salvia confertiflora
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Another distinctive Salvia, this very tall late blooming species has distinctive large leaves and graceful stalks of well spaced whorls of small reddish-orange flowers. Native to Brazil.
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A woody tropical brought out from the Conservatory for the summer, blooming with orange tubular flowers in the Rainbow Bed.
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Cuphea 'Granada Sunset'
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Clematis maximowicziana
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The two spectacular large masses of C. maximowicziana at the north end of the Flower Garden shown in full bloom on September13, have completely finished flowering--but this planting in the southeast corner of the Flower Garden by the potting shed is in a much shadier spot and is in full bloom now--two weeks later.
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The Himalayan Honeysuckle, a shrub native to the Himalayas, displays its fruit. A member of the Caprifoliaceae family.
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Leycesteria formosa
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Solanum quitoense
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With large felt-like leaves with a purplish cast to their undersides and new growth, this spiny Solanum, native to Ecuador and Colombia, is quite distinctive.
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The seed heads of this Angelica are as decorative as the flowers seen on September 7.
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Angelica gigas
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Correa backhousiana
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Another Australian Correa has started to bloom in a pot on the deck of the main house. This species has pale greenish yellow flowers and is named after James Backhouse, the English plant explorer and nurseryman.
AGM
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Blooming under glass and a magnificent species indeed. The genus is named after Wilhelm Sinning, a head gardener at the University of Bonn.
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Sinningia magnifica
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Odontonema strictum
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This member of the Acanthaceae family, a small evergreen shrub from Central America, has been blooming with waxy tubular flowers for some time in the Conservatory.
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And in one of the poly houses, an unusual member of the Buddlejaceae family and an unusual species of Buddleja. This Buddleja relative--collected by the Sino British Expedition into Guizho Province several years ago--has very unusual dangling spikes of small flowers with long stamens.
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Buddlejaceae SBE Guizho
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Buddleja lindleyana
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And this distinctive Buddleja has cascading spikes of long tubular flowers--glistening white on the outside and opening to purple petals. Native to China.
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