flowers in bloom now

Surprised to see certain flowers in bloom in the garden now in October, although the mahonia is not surprising as this is the time it does bloom and share that wonderful scent.

These small sunflowers have recently produced a new batch of flowers.

Japanese anemone

another auricula

The Borage has gone completely mad recently. I haven't seen this in over a year as it was a building site until recently.

The borage has self-seeded extensively.

This is the only sunflower in the front garden that bloomed and it's been rather late.

Below  is the first Pickerel Weed that bloomed this year. I would have thought it would have bloomed earlier in the summer but it didn't.

I still can't get over the auriculas blooming this time of the autumn. I thought they were early spring flowers. I haven't grown many before but I bought a dozen of them (which had already bloomed in the spring) for an auricula theatre next spring and 3 have bloomed so far this summer/autumn.