More from the weekend image dump …

Abutilon pictum ‘Thompsonii’ (I think. Finally looked it up tonight by googling variegated albutilon and mostly got images from my own blog.)

Slightly different view.

Up close.

Bittersweet

Sanguisorba tenuifolia (Burnet)

More image dumps from the weekend…

Monkshood

Monkshood up close

The floating clouds of fall sedums. Piet Oudolf is big on umbel and umbel-like inflorescences. Note to self: I need more.

I’ve got a nice patch of a cute little allium I thought I’d lost in the rock garden. Hard to shoot.

And, of course, some more anemones

A couple of fare-to-middlin’ frosts. It’s starting to feel like fall, what with moving pots to shelter and bulb- and garlic planting.

Water garden in morning sun with mist rising off beaver pond.

The (mostly) grass border along the north edge of the veggie garden.

Wish I remembered the cultivar on this grass.

Frosted phlomis seedheads.

Frost on dahlia.

My favorite mixed container this year. Looks better now that I pulled it out of the weeds.

And the obligatory ridge at sunrise.

This Boston-based duo is my favorite punk cabaret band. (Well, there aren’t many others, far as I know.) Night Reconnaissance (language warning) is not my favorite track from them. But it is a song about stealing lawn ornaments.

For beginners, best to check out their session on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic before working up to their concert performances. (War Pigs is a favorite.) Find more videos on their very cool website.

Anemones continue to be my favorite fall flower. These are from the ’secret garden’ tucked into a courtyard near the Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory on the south side of the Plant Science building at Cornell. Click images larger views.

See also:

• More purples and violets
• Anemones in the hidden garden