Fall in the garden

After some really cold nights there isn't much blooming in the garden, but there is still lots of interest.  

The Purple Prince Snapdragons reseed every year in the Secret Garden and are still blooming away.

Salvia 'May Night' still producing a few blooms

 Dinosaur kale in the Potager

The fall pillar display. The theme seems to be rusty elements.

I love this little grass.

Some of the Indian corn we grew.

Between a rock and a hard place

I'm sure you've all seen the tree growing out of the side of a mountain and wondered how it could possibly grow there. If you tried to grow it there it would be nearly impossible.  I sometimes think the same thing about some of the plants in my garden.  There are some plants that I give the most fertile spot in the garden and tend them lovingly and still they don't thrive.  Then there are the plants that grow in my rock walls.  I don't plant them there, they just find a spot with a bit of soil and grow happily without any help from the gardener.  You can't help but love these carefree, happy little plants.  Here are just a few of my cliff dwellers.

Pulsatilla

Dicentra eximia

Dianthus

Japanese Painted Fern

Viola Koreana

Salvia Purple Knockout

I do admit to planting these.  They seem happiest when growing in the cracks though.

 

Both the dianthus and lamium planted themselves working quite well with the heurchera.

Dwarf Goatsbeard  Aruncus aethusifolius