September Small Space Garden Tour | Lovely Ideas for Flowers, Colour Impact & Plant Pleasure

Join us for a colourful garden tour with high impact, late-season loveliness, and a buzz of summer energy even though September is here and woody notes of Autumn suffuse the air at dawn. The Ethiopian Peacock Orchid (Gladiolus murielae syn. Acidanthera) is an elegantly statuesque beauty, often gracing the planters of Sissinghurst Castle Garden; colour-saturated Salvias ‘Josh’, ‘Pink Pong’ and ‘Cerro Potosi’ bring lively vibrancy to planting; Echinacea ‘Sensation Pink’ is a hot pink powerdrive, fabulous paired with the deeply inky foliage of Ipomoea batatas ‘Solar Power Black’ and the deep plummy leafage of Smokebush (Continus coggygria); the domed clusters of lilac-blue blooms on Eryngium planum ‘Magical Blue Globe’ bring colour, structure and eager foraging bumble bees from afar.
Inspired by crickets in the garden, there are also some lines to savour from ‘On The Grasshopper and Cricket’ by John Keates. I adore this evocative poem, with its affectionate anthropomorphism of the grasshopper and suggestion that our pleasure in nature’s presence and the wistfulness of summer’s echo in winter, sustains us by maintaining our connection to the natural world wherever we are ...

* On The Grasshopper And Cricket *

The Poetry of earth is never dead:    
  When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,    
  And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run    
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;    
That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead      
  In summer luxury,—he has never done    
  With his delights; for when tired out with fun    
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.    
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:    
  On a lone winter evening, when the frost     
    Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills.   
 The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,    
  And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,    
    The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.

John Keats
December 30,1816

* ATTRIBUTIONS *
1) Monet’s Garden at Vétheuil (1880)
Attribution: Claude Monet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
2) Ethiopian Mountain Road
Image by Clay Knight on Unsplash

* CHAPTERS *
0:00 September Flowers Intro
2:32 Peacock Orchid (Gladiolus murielae syn. Acidanthera)
4:51 Stunning Salvia ‘Josh’
6:00 Speckled Bush-Cricket …hello there!
7:12 ‘On the Grasshopper & Cricket’ by John Keates
8:30 Echinacea purpurea ‘Sensation Pink’ & black Ipomoea
10:10 Salvias ‘Pink Pong’ & ‘Amistad’
11:00 Hummingbird Hawk Moth loves salvias
11:21 Salvia microphylla ‘Cerro Potosi’
12:33 Dahlia ‘Lou Farman’
13:16 Eryngium planum ‘Magical Blue Globe’
15:26 Thank You with lovely garden inhabitants & visitors

[margaretflynn]

“It takes years of trial and error to become an amateur gardener…” Oh, how I appreciate hearing your uncle’s quote! It’s a gentle nudge to keep me gardening. The September tour was flush with poetry and beauty. Thank you!❤

[TheBlueMoonGarden]

Ohhhh I love love love your videos, your writing, your soft voice, your garden sooo much. Everything about your channel is so poetic! 💖🌺

[pattyvalinote]

You have a very interesting selection of flowers and perennials! Just stunning ❤️

[dianebright]

what I have been waiting for! Your videos are always eye candy and soul food for me.
I thought you were such an adventurer to go out at night as I am wary of what might surprise me; and then!! There it was: the jump and squeal!! I’m so happy you left that bit in. I don’t think I care so much for the crickets in my backyard. They are almost black in color and I get so many that sometimes I find them in the house!
Thank you for sharing the beauty of your garden.

[mrsrover]

Another blissful garden tour, thank you so much! Greetings from Prince Edward Island.

[kylathomas]

Absolutely loved this. Your garden is beautiful 💕💕

[amyjones]

Such a beautiful, colorful garden, and those hydrangeas! Such a relaxing video to view.

[catacomb_catholic]

Just loved it all, and the clip of falling snow leaves me excited to see my own boxwood knot garden come to fruition!

[kotsifou]

Well, I just added the gladiolus in my wish list for next year. I will try growing it both in Germany and Crete and see where it does better. Thanks for the highlight!!

[EuniceCarlin]

Your garden looks serene and majestic.How I wish I have one.

[wendybartlett]

I never tire of seeing your beautiful garden. I love the Peacock Orchids. I haven't had many bees in my own garden this year. Not sure if it's down to the strange weather.

[auntyj-c]

I also invested in an eryngium this year, it did well but has gone over already. The rest of the garden is looking a bit shabby this year because the surrounding trees have grown so large the plants are sprawling to try to reach the sunlight. I may have to do a major overhaul next spring - your videos will be good inspiration, thank you.