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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: ruweiss on October 05, 2023, 09:06:27 PM
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This enormous Pyracantha coccineus grows in front of a house in
our neighbourhood, a fine sight with so many berries. Birds will
love it in the winter.
Aster ericoides "Snow Flurry" with many small flowers. We saw
this plant at first in the Botanical Garden of Brno, it is still rather
unknown in our region and had to wait a long time until we could
obtain it.
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Some Colchicums from today.
'Neptun'
'Autumn Herald'
C.autumnale 'Album'
'Herbstkugel', this has very unique shape of the flower among my Colchicums, and nice pale colour. :)
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A very interesting collection of Colchicums, Leena :)
They overbloomed very quickly for me because we have an unusually warm and dry autumn... But I expect a few more new additions to bloom in pots.
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Colchicum autumnale var. album plenum
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Leena and Stefan,
Beautiful Colchicums, thank you for showing
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This enormous Pyracantha coccineus grows in front of a house in
our neighbourhood, a fine sight with so many berries. Birds will
love it in the winter.
Aster ericoides "Snow Flurry" with many small flowers. We saw
this plant at first in the Botanical Garden of Brno, it is still rather
unknown in our region and had to wait a long time until we could
obtain it.
Quite an amazing sight this Pyracantha Rudi! It must be a form with yellow fruits. I remember them with orange berries mostly; here in Canada are rarely cultivated, and probably not cold hardy in our region.
Unfortunately our Aster ericoides 'Snow Flurry' has disappeared from most garden centers.
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Beautiful Colchicums Leena and Stefan. C. autumnale Album has finished blooming here and the very warm weather (up to a few days ago) also made the 'Waterlily' and 'The Giant' to 'explode' and will fade faster than usual. I am now waiting for Crocus speciosus to appear after the rains.
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Because of warm weather we don't have the usual bright fall colors yet, various species are still in flower: Allium thunbergii 'Ozawa', Lomelosia olgae and a Dahlia offering night 'shelter' to the bumblebees.
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Thank you all.
September was also warmer than usual here this year, and even 'Rosy Dawn' started to flower already in September. Usually it flowers in October.
Stefan, your white double Colchicum is beautiful. I planted it just couple of weeks ago, it hasn't come up yet. Many times they don't flower well the same year when planted, but I hope to see it flowering well next autumn.
Aster ericoides 'Snow Flurry' is also very pretty, but it flowers here so late that it never does well (I tried it once, and also a friend had it, but gave it up). I don't know why, but almost all autumn flowering plants flower later here than in more southern (warmer) countries.
Gabriela, what a nice Allium, and good to have flowers for bumblebees. :)
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Gabriela,
Beautiful display; but, even more impressive is the care and attention you must have given them!
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Begonia grandis (syn. evansiana) grows well with me without
any special care.
Bergenia ciliata can reach huge dimensions, the flowers in very early
spring are mostly destroyed by late frost.
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I love the fall colors of the leaves…
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Disanthus cercidifolius
(https://i.imgur.com/FqiOHUXl.jpg)
Nandina domestica
(https://i.imgur.com/EXy7fStl.jpg)
Paeonia rockii
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Tree peony Pea Green - Dou Lu
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Thank you Leena and Marc.
A. thunbergii is a bit too late flowering, even in this part of Ontario we can sometimes have a flower display with snow. For a fall flowering Allium
in cold region A. pseudojaponicum is much better, starting in August.
The fall foliage is always so beautiful in some species Stefan!
We had an unusual warm weather until recently and the trees are far behind comparing with other years. My Japanese maples are still green!
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A. thunbergii is a bit too late flowering, even in this part of Ontario we can sometimes have a flower display with snow. For a fall flowering Allium
in cold region A. pseudojaponicum is much better, starting in August.
Thank you for the tip! I have Allium wallichii, which flowers in September here, and it has been hardy now for several years. It was grown originally from seed.
I also love autumn colours, but this year they are not very good here, possibly due to warm and wet September.
First frosty nights have come. The first picture is from one morning last week.
Rest of the pictures are from today. Asters and yellowing leaves of Ranzania japonica and Glaucidium palmatum.
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Allium thunbergii always blooms into the snowfalls every year for me in Minnesota. Flowers freeze-dry, and stay throughout the winter. I agree with Gabriela, A. pseudojaponica is a good late summer substitute. (Thanks for the seed, Kris!) A. sacculiferum is another good choice, whose bloom time is midway between the other two for me. It prefers at least some shade, too.
I suppose this pic is why the aster Snow Flurry has its name.
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Beautiful pictures from all!
Leena, You show a wonderful array of colchicums! ´Herbstkugel´seems very attractive, and C. speciosum ´Album´ is one of my favourites, too.
Gabriela, ´The Giant´is one of the best colchicums with me, I wouldn´t like to miss it. Special, floriferous and reliable.
After 300 mm rainfall in summer, an army of slugs devoured almost all flowers of my colchicums. Only C. autumnale and pannonicum seem less tasty for them.
The more I enjoy the flowers of the late crocusses now, this is Crocus speciosus ´Semedo´.
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Crocus goulimyi isn´t hardy everywhere in Germany, therefore I´m glad that it is for me.
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I like the subtle white tints of Crocus goulimyi ´Sikea form´. :)
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Some Germans are able to grow nerines in their borders, I have to keep it potted. The begonia was bought as B. taliensis, but is something like B. asperifolia, more likely.
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A reddish flowering seedling of Roscoea purpurea.
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This enormous Pyracantha coccineus grows in front of a house in
our neighbourhood, a fine sight with so many berries. Birds will
love it in the winter.
A fine plant! Once I took this pic of a pyracantha in Istria, which grew over a wall. It had very unusual long-stretched panicels of stalked yellow berries, the panicles being around 60 cm long. I wonder what species this beautiful specimen is?
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Thank you for the tip! I have Allium wallichii, which flowers in September here, and it has been hardy now for several years. It was grown originally from seed.
I also love autumn colours, but this year they are not very good here, possibly due to warm and wet September.
First frosty nights have come. The first picture is from one morning last week.
Rest of the pictures are from today. Asters and yellowing leaves of Ranzania japonica and Glaucidium palmatum.
Thank you, I didn't know about A. wallichii Leena. Beautiful pictures, same about the colors here. Due to a few colder nights, it seems more changes are happening right now. Glaucidium is looking just like yours color wise.
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You still have a lots of flowers Mariette!
Crosus speciosus is also starting here and then C. banaticus will follow shortly. They are always the last flowers of the season in our climate, so I am always happy to see them and on the same time sorry knowing the long winter will soon arrive.
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Beautiful pictures! :)
Here autumn crocuses have also been up almost all October, but it is too cold for them to open the flowers properly. So even though they live unlike autumn snowdrops, and even multiply, they are not as good gardenplants as Colchicums here. Temperatures have been little above zero and now it is below zero, but no snow yet. It will rain later this week, so winter is not yet here. :)
Colchicums are over, at least almost.
Most of my asters have also been damaged by cold, but 'Little Carlow' is surprisingly hardy and still flowers well.
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Last photo with Aster is pretty nice. They glorify the garden very late in autumn.
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Crosus speciosus is also starting here and then C. banaticus will follow shortly. They are always the last flowers of the season in our climate...
I´m surprised to learn that Crocus banaticus is the last to flower with You, Gabriela! In Germany, it´s usually said to come next after Crocus kotschyanus, which starts the autumnal season. Clones flowering in November are rare treasures.
Crocus ligusticus ´Millesimo´should flower in September, but just opend today. Once I had big clumps of this crocus, but they were killed in a severe winter. This one popped up several years later, maybe a seedling or a corm dislocated by rodents.
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Leena, it´s nice to have a perfect aster so late in the season! Here, they are all wilting now, perhaps because they start earlier for us. Having lost many varieties, I´m quite happy with my chance seedlings, here growing alongside the garden path two weeks ago.
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The flowers of Tinantia erecta are not showy, but I like the shape of this annual in the shadier spots of the garden.
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Thank you Yann and Mariette. :)
Also here most of my asters are over now, 'Little Carlow' is still looking good, and also another small flowered one, Aster shortii.
Perhaps small flowers do better with cold nights and rain.
Mariette, your asters look really nice! I also have some grown from seed, but mine seem to be too spreading, with roots.