Time to join in once again with Dawn’s annual “Festival of Leaves” autumn challenge where she invites us to share our photos of the autumn (fall) season. The feast day of St Michael the Archangel on the 29th September coincides with the peak flowering season of autumn flowering Asters. Which is how they come by their common name, Michaelmas Daisy.
If you’d like to visit a garden that celebrates this plant then click on this link to a post on my flower blog
Cornwall in Colours 
The bee was a great bonus. Lovely shot, Jude.
Best wishes, Pete. x
Thanks Pete.
Gorgeous flowers. Gorgeous images!
Thanks for linking up.
You’re very welcome Dawn. One of autumn’s best flowers.
It really is.
I always love an aster. They may be my favourite Autumn flower.
Yes, they are pretty. If you follow the link you’ll find a lot of different colours.
Lovely flower, great colour … and the bonus must be the bee ☺️.
Always nice to capture a bee 🐝
Beauty, Jude. Always love a good bee working a flower. 🙂
Me too. Starting to see less now that the weather is turning.
One of my favourites. Mine are starting to come good after winter and they should bloom right through summer and autumn.
Your asters flower in summer? They only start here around late summer.
Yes, and they flower for months, right through to the end of autumn. I love them.
Wow, that’s great value. They are lovely but definitely autumn flowers here. We do have summer flowering blue daisies – Felicia or Kingfisher daisy. I used to grow them in the Cape.
Another blue daisy you have is the Swan River daisy, which I have grown in my previous garden, but I wasn’t successful here. That’s more of a trailer.
I didn’t know of that daisy and looked it up – native to Western Australia. I’ll keep an eye out for it.
It’s very pretty.
Gorgeous. Mine is finally flowering
I’m still waiting for one of mine to open, but I did transplant it from a pot into the ground earlier this year so it might have been putting down roots first.