Just over a week later, I was back at Wisley as the AGS representative at the RHS Specialist Societies day. Fortunately, I had enough support to be able to take time out to walk around the top part of the garden, which I didn't get to on my previous visit.

Phlox nana Mary Maslin
First of all, another flash of colour from the crevice garden. And what a wonderful colour; this phlox is seldom seen, and reportedly difficult to grow, but absolutely wonderful in flower.

Oxalis stenorrhyncha
Inside the alpine house, more South African oxalis were in flower.

Oxalis purpurea
We are familiar with a yellow flowered oxalis which used to go round under the name O. purpurea, and for some years I grew a plant which purported to be a magenta form, but never flowered. Here is a white form.

Oxalis pulchella var. tomentosa
This oxalis was particularly charming, with its compact habit and very subtle colouring.

Brunsvigia gregaria ex Jeffreys Bay
The brunsvigia which was just opening the previous week was now fully out.

Brunsvigia bosmaniae
The Brunsvigia bosmaniae on the other hand has gone over, leaving this spectacular seed head.

Cyrtanthus sanguineus

Nerine humilis ex Pickeniers Kloof
A fabulous form of Nerine humilis, more compact and deeper pink than the usual forms.

Oxalis massoniana
Another, more familiar oxalis.

Aeonium nobile
I couldn't resist a few more close ups of the aeonium.

Gladiolus brevifolius
Likewise this lovely South African gladiolus

Crocus speciosus ssp. ilgazensis

Colchicum
On the way back across to the Hillside Events Centre, I stopped to photograph some of the colchicums planted around trees in the lawn. This particularly nice dark form was labelled helpfully "Colchicum".

Colchicum Glory of Heemstede

Colchicum hybrid
Another unnamed form or hybrid of C. speciosum

Colchicum speciosum Huxley

Colchicum speciosum album

Kniphofia rooperi
Another personal favourite is this huge, late poker. Ten years ago I had a large clump which produced over 30 flowers each year, but eventually it became too congested and the crowns rotted over winter.

Wildflower meadow
This year the area at the top of the garden outside the Hillside Events Centre, where the old glass house used to stand, has been planted as a wildflower meadow. It must have been magnificent all summer, to judge by the number of seedheads, but retains a more subtle beauty as autumn takes hold.

Pansies
Finally, in the images from the previous week I showed pansies being planted lower down in the garden. Tens of thousands of pansies have descended on Wisley in flocks, like starlings, and the bed outside the events centre is full of them.