Orange and purple

 Sometimes the garden accidentally turns out to be colour-themed - and this month it just seems full of orange (montbretia, marigolds, day lilies) and purple (clematis, buddleia, platycodon, lavender, oregano), with a couple of splashes of pink from fuchsias and hydrangeas

Buddleias and butterflies

I pruned the buddleia quite severely in spring, and it's flowered a little later than usual. The flower heads seem larger though - more of a proper size, rather than tiny clumps - and with the few sunny days we've had this last week the butterflies are gathering round it.

Butterflies and birds

 Since Saturday's torrential rain, the garden seems ful of butterflies, bees and birds. Not all of them would sit still enough to be photographed though....

Buddleia starting to prove a major attraction

even Cabbage Whites look pretty when not eating cabbages

A very squashed-looking baby robin

September in the garden - flowers

montbretia

It's starting to feel like Autumn now - the flowers that are left seem to be mainly lilac/purple or orange with michaelmas daisies just starting to flower but everywhere dominated by the orange montbretia which has spread again this year.

michaelmas daisies

calendula

the Is-it-a-buddleia bush

rudbeckia

 The unknown bush or shrub continues to grow and flower. I need to look closely at something that I know to be buddleia for comparison.

heather

nasturtiums

polyanthus

sunflowers

straggly sweetpeas