Japanese Anemones provide some late colour in the garden and cope with -in fact prefer- a bit of shade. That's welcome since the shady garden has very little in flower by this point in the year. If you so wish they come in various shades of pink with frilly double flowers but the simplicity of Anemone x hybrida 'Honorine Jobert' is the one for me.

  

 It seems a Monsieur Jobert spotted this hybrid form in his garden in Verdun, France in 1858 and propagated it. Sometimes it's described as a cultivar (i.e. cultivated variety) but arguably it appears to have been a natural hybrid albeit of garden origin.

 Japanese Anemones also provide some late foraging for pollinators. However when I looked closely at this hoverfly I noticed that it was being devoured by a blue spider!