Invasive. When a gardener tells you a plant is invasive, and asks you if you still want it, you should think carefully before you jump up and down and say yes, please, I've got lots of room. I'll take ten.
Trust me on this. Those tall flowers in the photo above? Aster tartaria. Beautiful purple blossoms with yellow centers, six or seven feet off the ground. The plants bloom in late September, making them a boon to perennial borders filled with plants that peak earlier in the season.
I started with ten aster tartaria plants. Now I have hundreds.
We've given away truckloads of them over the past two years. I love them, but maybe not quite so many.
In a few days, with a bit of sunshine in the weather forecast, my view out my office windows should be completely blocked by aster tartaria.
I don't know what these pink flowers are called. They show up in the garden every September.
I do know about the flowers in this last photo. Ted's favorite cosmos self-seeded from last summer, and now there's a sizeable cluster of plants in front of the stone wall behind our house.
The pink flower is Physostegia - Obedient Plant or False Dragonhead. Your garden keeps changing! Looks great and makes me miss New England. I love quaresmeira and bico de papagaio and hibisco, but....
Posted by: Peter | September 30, 2011 at 03:38 PM
I love all these flowers, Lydia. They have that carefree, "make you happy" look to them. Amazing how the asters have multiplied so though. Cosmos have always been one of my favorites.
Posted by: Shirley @ gfe | October 5, 2011 at 04:03 PM
I just found this site! Your home and garden are beautiful, Lydia. I greatly look forward to exploring all the East coast has to offer one of these days. Thank you for sharing and inner glimpse of your life. oxox
Posted by: Stephanie ODea | August 8, 2012 at 10:38 AM