October 2014 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Jupiter]

Lot's happening in the garden now and lots more on the brink of bursting.

Tragopogon porrifolius




Tellima grandiflora




Polygonatum odoratum




Hedysarum coronarium




Allium siculum (among other names)

[Hillview croconut]

Lovely collection of flowers Jamus and brilliant photographs, cheers, Marcus

[Jupiter]

Thanks Marcus, not all rare and special treasures like yours but I find beauty in even everyday weeds like the Tragopogon.

We had a horrific night here last night. Gale force winds thrashed the garden ALL night, literally, and then to top it off a huge branch came down from a neighbours tree, smashed the fence to smithereens and took out the power line and the phone! We all woke up with the crash and surveyed the damage. By some miracle of chance the whole limb missed my new rock garden and missed several precious plants in the garden. We had the SES (state emergency service), CFS (country fire service) and the power company all here at once! Followed by the telephone company putting their wire back up. It was 11am before I got to work, absolutely shattered.
Amazingly most of the garden survived. I lost a couple of Campanula latifolia flower spikes and one of my Geranium maderense was pushed over, but it stood back up and seems no worse for the ordeal...

[Anthony Darby]

This Myosotis sp. hitched a ride in a pot of Metrosideros carnea. It's now seeded itself in a pot of frangipani.  I'm hoping to grow the air plant round that branch it's hanging on.

[Anthony Darby]

Albuca spiralis with a flower bud. Seed was sown last December.

[ashley]

Wonderful photos Jamus

That's a fine clump of Tillandsia bergeri Anthony.  Does it flower seasonally or year-round there?  For me it performs only sporadically.
Your Albuca is also living up to its name rather well.

[Anthony Darby]

It flowers seasonally Ashley.

[Mini bulb lover]

Some flowers seen on my recent trip to Tasmania with a group from the Ferny Creek Horticultural Society.

The Paeonia and Pulsatilla were in the Woodbridge nursery display garden (unfortunately none in stock).

Epacris gunnii is a pretty Tasmanian native - this one growing in the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens in Hobart. (Difficult to photograph up close in windy weather - the leaves are quite sharp so hard to hold).

[Mini bulb lover]

The Fritillaria meadow at Kaydale Lodge Gardens in North West Tasmania is a stunning sight to see in person. They grown many other frits in their raised rock gardens. The Rhodo was in a park near the Cascade brewery around the corner from Marcus.

[David Nicholson]

.................The Rhodo was in a park near the Cascade brewery around the corner from Marcus.

Very handy that

[David Lyttle]

A few things flowering in my garden at present

Astelia chathamica  The male and female flowers are on separate plants.the first is the female; the second is a close up of the male.

Myosotidium hortensia  A bit neglected but putting on a good show not withstanding. The foliage is attractive as well and characterises it as a megaherb

Clematis montana rubens It had a whole sheep buried under it when it was planted.

[Jupiter]

Fantastic pictures David, looks like a dead sheep is just the thing when planting clematis! Hard to come by around here but I suppose I could try a road kill kangaroo...?   

Myosotidium is gorgeous thing. I've never grown that one myself, but the. Again I've never seen it look as good as yours.

[Anthony Darby]

That clematis is stunning. 

[Maggi Young]

Cliff and Lesley should sit down before looking at the next photos!!

Alejandra  ( patagoniawildflowers) has posted this on Twitter 
saying "trekking today was full of surprises! Ranunculus semiverticillatus in my backyard mountain. Two weeks ago that place was covered by snow. now, this beauty....."

[Maggi Young]

Adding another of Alejandra's photos to delight  us all .....



This is really a top quality plant, isn't it?