Flowers and foliage October 2008

[Rafa]

Two species received this year from two friends, Scilla maderensis (thanks to Kurt Vickery)  and Galanthus reginae-olgae (thanks to Tony Willis)

Nice plants and very skilful photos. How hardy is Scilla maderensis?

Poul

I don't know if this species is hardy below 0º, but I prefere to not try it . I am growing it in the bulb frame.

[Kristl Walek]

Because winter comes so early to this part of the world autumn for me means form, texture, foliage, berries and seed receptacles.

Above all, it is ornamental grasses at the moment. Rather than try to identify the particular grasses, I prefer to present them in the way that they move me in the garden: with their grace, movement and color.

The first picture is actually very old---taken at the Atlanta Botanic Gardens some dozen years ago. On the bench is my darling daughter, as she was then....

The remainder are all from my property.

[Kristl Walek]

continuing...

[Maggi Young]

Great grasses..... so photogenic.


And now, all these years on... the DD (Darling Daughter) is a Student Member of the SRGC..... wonderful how things pan out, ain't it?!! 


 See the benefits of taking your children to see great gardens, all you young parents out there.......

[Kristl Walek]

and the last...

[ian mcenery]

A very confused gentian here and an arisaema seed head

[annew]

A couple of weeks ago we had a lovely misty morning when Prunus sargentii was at its best. The Schizostylis have flowered particularly well this year, this pink one is, I think, 'Mrs Heggarty'.

[David Nicholson]

................... The Schizostylis have flowered particularly well this year, this pink one is, I think, 'Mrs Heggarty'.

Mine have too, perhaps the lousy Summer had something to do with it? By the way are they called something else other than Schizostylis these days?

[Paul T]

David,

I think they're Hesperantha now aren't they?

[David Nicholson]

Spot on Paul, I couldn't bring it to mind.

[annew]

Flippin' eck! Not another name gone west!

[Gerry Webster]

................... The Schizostylis have flowered particularly well this year, this pink one is, I think, 'Mrs Heggarty'.

Mine have too, perhaps the lousy Summer had something to do with it? By the way are they called something else other than Schizostylis these days?

Also mine - in fact they've never been better. I've just looked in Beth Chatto's The Damp Garden where she says they need "far more moisture than you might imagine." I presume this last summer gave them exactly what they need.

[ruweiss]

At this time of the year the flowers get fewer and fewer, but many trees and shrubs are vey showy
in their autumn colours.Allium thunbergii is a very reliable late floweing geophyte.

[Paddy Tobin]

Rudi,

Lovely photographs. I wish the leaves would stay on my Gingko biloba long enough for them to colour so well. Mine are always blown off too early as the tree is planted on its own in an open position and so gets the full blast of the wind.

Some photographs from my garden today. The Yucca filamentosa is looking particularly well at the moment with two flowering spikes. Another plant in a different part of the garden has one spike but the flowers are not fully open yet. The seedhead of Paris polyphylla just opened today - what bright seeds!

Paddy

[fermi de Sousa]

Some photographs from my garden today. The Yucca filamentosa is looking particularly well at the moment with two flowering spikes.
Paddy

How amazing, Paddy, as the same plant is coming into flower in our garden on the other side of the world to you in Ireland! If I can get a decent pic I'll post it to the Southern Hemisphere thread.
cheers
femri