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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Gabriela on September 04, 2020, 06:46:59 PM
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A most beautiful month featuring flowers AND fruits, so I'll give it a start with Clematis heracleifolia 'China Purple' at its best (the huge leaf behind belongs to Arisaema fargesii)
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Aconitum alboviolaceum
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and Arisaema triphyllum fruit among Brunnera leaves
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Gentiana paradoxa grown from SRG seed
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The plants in the small holes grow quite well, Daphne modesta even sows itself.
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A few ones from the dunes, after a busy end of week i needed to walk a lot.
Gentianella uliginosa, Eryngium maritimum, Hippophae rhamnoides, Cakile maritima and others knickknacks.
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The heavy light is inappropriate for photos :-\ The Parnassia palustris and Pyrola rotundifolia.
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Don't fall on it
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Colchicum autumnale far away the sand
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Yann
Is that an Eryngium?
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Photo 824,26 are Eryngium yes. Vey common along the coast line but localised to undisturbed zones.
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1. Salvia chamaedryoides. Although it produces the odd flower earlier in the year its main flowering period here in the London area is September - October. The pure blue flowers are a bit smaller than those of the well-known cultivars shown in the second photo. My plant has nice grey-green leaves but clones with plain green leaves exist.
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2. There is not much that beats 'Mexican' Salvias (mainly selections and hybrids of S. greggii and S. microphylla) when it comes to producing a colourful display over a long period. These bushy herbs or subshrubs start to flower in May and continue non-stop until November. Here shown are the cultivars Hot Lips (red and white), Golden Girl (pale yellow) and So Cool Pale Blue (pale lavender, not true blue).
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3. Alyssum spruneri. This is more often cultivated as A. stribrnyi, which is a synonym. The accepted name is certainly less of a tongue twister! It flowers all summer in poor gritty soil in a dry, sunny spot and self seeds a bit.
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4. Scutellaria pinnatifida. Flowers just as long as Alyssum spruneri and under the same conditions. Also known as S. orientalis subsp. pinnatifida, under which name I received it from the AGS seed distribution 2015/2016.
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5. Rhododendron hippophaeoides Haba Shan. This mainly flowers in March - April but at the moment it has quite a few unseasonal flowers out. This named clone is sometimes said to be the nearest to blue in colour of any Rhododendron but it is still not what I would call actually blue. Bluish violet is more accurate, I'd say.
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The silvery foliage of your S. chamaedryoides sets off its blue flowers very well Andre.
'Blue Note', supposedly a hybrid with S. lycioides, has lovely intense flowers over a long period but its foliage may not be quite as good as this parent.
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Tricyrtis macrantha macranthopsis just starting to flower. Leaves soon scorch even in late September sunshine.
Physoplexis comosa seedling self sown in tufa & in raised bed in alpine house.
Cyclamen mirable I think.
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Colchicums are now flowering well :), and also Crocus nudiflorus came up last week. Colchicums increase well in my garden, but autumn Crocus (nudiflorus and puchellus) stay alive (mostly), but don't increase or set seeds. Still, I'm happy that they stay alive. :)
In the last picture out of season flower in one of my 'Amber Queen'- seedlings, flowering for the first time.
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Very nice range of flowers, Leena! Obviously You´re gardening in a more favourable part of the world. Due to the disastrous drought, colchicums and the first crocusses wither very quickly.
At least Salvia forskaohlei looks still fresh.
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Colchicums are now flowering well :), and also Crocus nudiflorus came up last week. Colchicums increase well in my garden, but autumn Crocus (nudiflorus and puchellus) stay alive (mostly), but don't increase or set seeds. Still, I'm happy that they stay alive. :)
In the last picture out of season flower in one of my 'Amber Queen'- seedlings, flowering for the first time.
Very envious Leena - good envy though :) I don't know where the Colchicum is this year, only the white one flowers and the chipmunks eat the corms of two large groups of Crocus speciosus in the summer, by the time I noticed the big holes in the ground. There should be some left but no sight of them due to the drought.
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September look in a prairie ecosystem from a more southern location in Ontario, with Schizachyrium scoparium, Elymus canadensis and Aster ericoides.
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And something I hoped to see one day, and I finally did - fifth instar larva of the Spicebush swallowtail :) This swallowtail is more common in US and its range only extends in S. Ontario (for now). The larvae feeds exclusively on species from the Lauraceae family - here on Sassafras albidum leaf. I am growing few Lindera in my garden hoping that one day....
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I think it is incredibly cute, Gabriela!
Last year I had a customer bring me a caterpillar of (I forget which) swallowtail - it eats lichen. The husband brought it in and said his wife "freaked out" out when she saw it. I told him what it was and that it would turn into a beautiful butterfly, and to put it back on the tree trunk where he found it. He said he didn't think he could convince his wife that it was actually a benign creature.
These kinds of people need to just stay in the city....
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Rick, that is a sad story. :( Some people are so much distanced from nature.
Gabriela, I love that prairie look and Aster ericoides is so pretty. Here it flowers so late in November that it never has enough time to open it's flowers. A friend of mine had it growing in a best possible place and still it was too late. I guess it is the latitude which makes many plants flower later here than in more southern countries.
It is the same with autumn flowering bulbs, many of them are later here than in more south.
Still, I'm happy that drought is not so severe here and many plants grow well, Colchicums included. :) And I can admire winter flowering snowdrops from Europe and UK here in the forum when it is too cold for them to flower here. :)
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Gentiana Strathmore. Here in the south of England we struggle with autumn gentians because our summers are too hot and dry for them. As they are among my favourite plants I try to grow them anyway. Keeping them permanently in the shade doesn't work, since they seem to crave sunshine. The trick is to give them a sunny spot and plenty of moisture but to provide some impromptu shading when the temperature rises to above 25°C. A large sheet of white paper draped over the plants works fine and it is even better to regularly spray some water on the paper, as the evaporation will have a cooling effect. The main problem is that I am often not around to do this - if only I could make some kind of automated system. All this must be laughable to growers in Scotland, where these plants grow like cress (don't tell me they don't).
Strathmore, while probably a hybrid, presents something of a mystery. Various websites claim that it arose as a sport from G. Inverleith at Ian Christie's nursery. However, in the Rock Garden, 1995, 95, p. 119, it is stated that the parent plant was not Inverleith and it appears to be unknown what it really was. Gentiana Inverleith is supposed to be a hybrid of G. veitchiorum and G. farreri. To me, Strathmore, on the other hand, looks very much like G. sino-ornata, having its tapering leaves and freely branching stems that easily strike root. The stalked flowers suggest that there is some G. farreri (or rather, G. lawrencei) blood running through its veins, but I see no trace of an influence of G. veitchiorum. That seems to confirm that G. Inverleith was not involved. My guess would be that Strathmore came from a G. sino-ornata hybrid that had some slight introgression of G. farreri/lawrencei.
Regardless, Strathmore is a good, vigorous plant with large flowers that stay open even during overcast weather. Last year, it flowered from September until well into December. It typically has pale (I should almost write 'pallid') blue flowers, which was true when my plant flowered the first time. Now in its second year in my garden, only a few of the flowers show the original colour, whereas most are a deeper and more luminous blue. I assume part of the plant has reverted back to the original condition of the parent from which it arose. The third photo below shows the two differently toned flowers on the same plant side by side. I wonder if others have also noticed their Strathmore turning deeper blue.
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Autumn flowering gentians of the sino-ornata type -
the best advice I would give for keeping these glorious gems growing well is to lift and divide them regularly, replanting each time in a new spot or at least one with refreshed soil. The best we've ever seen were growing in what was essentially a vegetable garden ! Beautiful plants - and hungry too!
Your attempts to keep them cool is also a good idea, of course, Andre!
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A friend of mine has seen G. sino-ornata growing by the thousands in the wild in what he described as boggy grassland. Most of the other related species wouldn't like having such wet feet.
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Yes, Andre, I have heard that, from Ron McBeath, who has also seen such a sight - but - this degree of water-logging would, he was sure, only be for a short time - and many plants are able to survive such conditions in the short term. He was sure that later in the season the area would be much drier.
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Here is Ionactis (Aster) linariifolia - enjoys growing in a sand bed
Gerd
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Yes, Andre, I have heard that, from Ron McBeath, who has also seen such a sight - but - this degree of water-logging would, he was sure, only be for a short time - and many plants are able to survive such conditions in the short term. He was sure that later in the season the area would be much drier.
Possibly, but you have to remember that in Yunnan autumn is already a relatively dry part of the year. Half the rainfall there falls between June and August, so I would think that during those months the habitats of G. sino-ornata would be even wetter than in October, when my friend saw them.
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That's a very beautiful gentian Andre, even if a hybrid.
I think it is incredibly cute, Gabriela!
These kinds of people need to just stay in the city....
I agree Rick, the malls have very large halls and space for them to take walks :))
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Here is Ionactis (Aster) linariifolia - enjoys growing in a sand bed
Gerd
Nice one Gerd, and useful in dry situation; native in Canada but not in ON.
Re: Aster ericoides Leena: I also like it a lot. There was/is a nice dwarf cv. named 'Snow Flurry' :) which would also flower sometimes in November. I would buy it now that I have garden space but didn't see it available lately.
The type species grown in regular garden soil can easily go 'out of character'.
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To my surprise Asarum maximum 'Silver Panda' made another flower:
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edit by maggi : Oops, sorry, I had missed that Bart's post was in the Aroid section. now moved here .
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Got this Aster as Aster pansus "Snowflurrry" and don't want to miss it anymore since I saw it
many years ago in the Botanic Garden in Brno.
I showed these pictures already some time ago in the forum, but think, that they are still of
interest. This plant does not look very interesting during the most time of the year but everybody
wants it when he sees it in flower.
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And Snow Flurry really attracts lots of insects, too. Have had mine for 20 years and wouldn't be without it.
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Got this Aster as Aster pansus "Snowflurrry" and don't want to miss it anymore since I saw it
many years ago in the Botanic Garden in Brno.
I showed these pictures already some time ago in the forum, but think, that they are still of
interest. This plant does not look very interesting during the most time of the year but everybody
wants it when he sees it in flower.
True Rudi, some plants are admired only at a certain time of year, and as Rick mentioned it is a great plant for pollinators.
I realized seeing your post that I should have written it with the name accepted: Symphyotrichum ericoides, instead of Aster. I didn't know the 'Snowflurry' came for var. pansus (S. ericoides var. pansus), unless there are two Snowflurries on the market :)
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To my surprise Asarum maximum 'Silver Panda' made another flower:
Sorry, but Asarum belongs to Aristolochiaceae.
Gerd
edit by maggi : Oops, sorry, I had missed that Bart's post was in the Aroid section. now moved here .
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Here's the fruit of Cydonia sinensis, formerly Pseudocydonia sinensis.
About 6-8 inches long. Turns yellow as it ripens with a pleasant fragrance
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We have finally gone a week without dense smoke. What a relief! The garden is responding to the cooler autumn like weather, more like “Indian Summer”, with high temperatures in the mid 80 F range (29 C). Low temperatures in the higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada are approaching freezing (0 C).
We are so thankful we reduced the size of our home and now have a beautiful garden where there was once a large room that we never used. The tall single flowered Dahlias are very heat tolerant and bloom more or less constantly all summer. They also attract many butterflies. Yesterday, a Western Monarch Butterfly showed up, feeding on the Dahlia flowers. The Western Monarchs are near extinction, so we were very pleased that they found a refuge in our garden.
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Many species of Colchicum are now blooming in many parts of our garden. Colchicum corsicum ? thrives in our garden in many different locations. They also consistently set seed for us.
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Colchicum cupanii ? is another species that does well for us. We have many blooming plants but they have yet to set seed.
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Eriogonum wrightii var. subscaposum is very happy in our garden. Our plants behave much differently here in our low elevation garden. The inflorescences tend to flop. Since they will grow in ordinary garden soil without any summer irrigation and bloom for many weeks (well over a month) the flopping inflorescences are easily tolerated.
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Eriogonum grande var. rubescens is another Buckwheat species that grows in ordinary garden soil and requires no summertime irrigation. They too bloom for many weeks during the summer into the autumn.
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Robert, I love your picture of dahlias. I can feel the warmth from that picture.
Here it is more autumn, but not yet frost. Mushrooms have popped up in my woodland beds, but I haven't found that they do any harm to plants. These Cyclamen purpurascens were planted last autumn, they were a gift from a kind forumist and they seem to do very well here (so far). Paxillus involutus is a common mushroom here.
In the second picture there is some Clitocybe growing in the path on wood chippings.
Third picture is a Colchicum in sun spot and in the last picture a tall Aster novae-angliae 'Herbstschnee' and Helenium in the background.
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Hi Leena,
Your garden looks so lush and “spring-like”.
Our garden looks tired from the relentless heat and the month long, plus, siege of dense smoke and ash from the wildfires. Now the heat is on again. High temperatures over the next 5 days will range from 95 to 97 F (35 to 36.1 C). It has been worse! Record high temperatures during this time period range from 100 to 103 F (37.8 to 39.4 C) through 5 October. Despite the less than ideal conditions, some plants are holding up well. Autumn weather will be welcome! Rain too, however our rainy season traditionally does not start until mid-October. Due to the strong La Niña and interactions with the MJO, I am not forecasting a wet autumn season this year; above average temperatures factor into this forecast too. Climate change and other environmental changes are having a very pronounced impact in our part of California.
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Epilobium ‘Wayne’s Silver’ has been blooming now for several months. It performs well despite the dry conditions, heat, and smoke.
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These are, somewhat (2 years ago), newly planted Colchicums out in the garden. The heat will end sooner or later and autumn-like weather will prevail.
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The cactus-flowered Zinnias also thrive despite the heat and smoke. I bag and hand-pollinate to improve my selected strains.
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Erythranthe cardinalis
Erythranthe cardinalis x E. lewisii hybrids are nothing new. However, I am using both the red and golden-yellow forms of Erythranthe cardinalis in my breeding work with Erythranthe lewisii. The golden-yellow form of E. cardinalis lacks anthocyanin pigmentation in their outer petals. Erythranthe lewisii possesses the dominant light area allele, LAR1, which also encodes the transcription factor R2R3 – MYB that regulates the expression of flavonol synthase. F2 hybrids (and beyond), as well as hybrids with other Erythranthe species, could produce very interesting results.
>>> One last note…
Today, 28 September, I logged a low temperature of 67 F (19.4 C) at the Placerville farm. This is a new record high temperature for the morning low temperature for this date. The old record was 66 F (18.9 C) set in 2010. In addition, I logged a low temperature of 71 F (21.7 C), elevation 3,500 feet (1,067 meters), in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This too is a new record high temperature for the morning low. These record-breaking temperatures are very indicative of the increasing emissiivity of the earth’s atmosphere and climate change. These are very worrisome trends, especially for this time of the year
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A most beautiful month featuring flowers AND fruits, so I'll give it a start with Clematis heracleifolia 'China Purple' at its best (the huge leaf behind belongs to Arisaema fargesii)
Aconitum alboviolaceum
and Arisaema triphyllum fruit among Brunnera leaves
nice ones!-- yes, a lovely month, with such dramatic changes so quickly!
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A few ones from the dunes, after a busy end of week i needed to walk a lot.
Gentianella uliginosa, Eryngium maritimum, Hippophae rhamnoides, Cakile maritima and others knickknacks.
Lots of beauties, nice place to walk! That Eryngium :)
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a lot of colors after a dry summer, it's great for the eyes. We finally had rain (36mm) and the garden is preparing a second spring with bulbs, aster and late species. Hope to post end of week.
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EEps-- thought I could catch up, but too many beauties to comment on! Robert-- you exemplify what I always tell people here when they complain about 'heat' :the temperatures you are happy to cool down to are near to our highest (we only hit or exceed 30C a few times a year ).. currently bouncing back and forth from days in the low teens C to mid 20's, some near frosts, but no signs in the yard yet ( though I have almost nothing truly tender).
1-A view from in front of the house, yesterday.
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2-3 Nice find on AutumnEquinox -this is a spot unmowed this year, was a dog run for aunt/mom's dogs years back, but small dogs, large space, was never unvegetated. It is just another mowed area now, but due to time and equipment issues this year, had not been done yet (still catching up!). I went in at first to get a shot of Dasiphora growing along the fence and found 4 flowering plants, more plants were just leaves (not seen in past due to mowing) that seem to be Eryngium planum, must be something my mom/aunt/ planted many years ago, or one of the 'wildflower' mixes (certainly not native here) my sister sowed years back! I'm hoping they'll make it to seed so I can scatter some in a non-mowed area! Meantime, I cut the poplar suckers around them, and won't mow that specific spot for now..
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xGordlinia grandiflora is certainly enjoying the warm weather of late. Hard to estimate the number of buds still to burst forth.
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A few more from Sept 22
1-Dianthus nardiformis-- this has proven a real late season show-- flowering for weeks now, and will only stop when the weather forces it, it seems! It does seem to prefer a bit deeper soil (still with rocks and gravel)-- plants in some tougher spots are a fraction of the size of this one..
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2- Geranium swatense one of the sort of sprawly types, but I don't have it in an exposed site.. one of those bright pinks that the camera insists on reading as blue, this is the best I can adjust it..
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3- Parthenocissus in full colour
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4- Prenanthes purpurea exquisite and brightly coloured flowers-- but they are tiny! it's slowly making a nice stand in half sun; the leaves go some nice brown/dark/gold shades, a bit later..
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5-Sedum Lime Zinger and Cymbalaria pallida.. the latter is doing just fine, flowering for months, bit of a lull in later summer, but lots of flowers again now; this sort of Sedum is not growing that much for me, not sure what they'd like-- richer soil? looser soil?
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Robert, I love your picture of dahlias. I can feel the warmth from that picture.
Here it is more autumn, but not yet frost. Mushrooms have popped up in my woodland beds, but I haven't found that they do any harm to plants. These Cyclamen purpurascens were planted last autumn, they were a gift from a kind forumist and they seem to do very well here (so far). Paxillus involutus is a common mushroom here.
In the second picture there is some Clitocybe growing in the path on wood chippings.
Third picture is a Colchicum in sun spot and in the last picture a tall Aster novae-angliae 'Herbstschnee' and Helenium in the background.
Lots of fungi and mushrooms all over here, too-- I am happy to see them as it indicates the soil is alive :)
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Lots of fungi and mushrooms all over here, too-- I am happy to see them as it indicates the soil is alive :)
I haven't thought it like that, but you are right:).
Couple of pictures of my asters. In the second one is Aster divaricatus (maybe it has another name now), it is very good, and always flowers for a month or so in early autumn.
Chloranthus japonicus has a nice autumn colour as does Mukdenia rossii.
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Nice pictures from all. Colors, flowers, mushrooms, fruits - autumn seems like a second spring.
Even the poison ivy draws admiration :)
Acer rubrum, Cinnamon fern, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, poison ivy and acorn for the end of September.
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Fun to see everyone's asters-- aster season here starts in July (natives), but still a few in flower while many are long since gone to seed-- S ciliolatuum is most common on the acreage, so many plants that they are in flower ( as a whole, not individuals) for months...
Nice shots, Gabriela! I'm happy to have no poison ivy, even though the colour is nice!
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Gabriela, how bright autumn colors! I didn't know cinnamon fern grows wild over there, and such nice color, too.
One more aster from yesterday:). This is an unnamed Aster novi-belgii, with double/semidouble flowers. Vigorous and tall plant, and flowers nice every autumn. It probably does have a name, but I got it from a plant friend who had lost its label.
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Aralia racemosa from Ontario wild seed... the plants ( I have two, these shots are just one) get larger each year, and in warmer years than this one,have managed to flower a bit earlier as they get bigger, but have still not managed to make seed before a good frost turns them to mush (one of my more sensitive perennials). This year, flowering was not early due to rather cool wet conditions, but the fall has been extended with no noticeable frost inside the acreage-- to get to Oct 02 like this is unusual! These shots are from Sept 22, but the plants are still standing, with a hint more colour.. I doubt they will actually get to ripen the berries, but if tonight's forecast 0 doesn't do anything (we've had lows that far or colder already), they may get another week at least...
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Thanks Cohan and Leena, it is hard not to get excited by the autumn colors.
The semidouble aster has a very nice fluffiness to it Leena :)
Cohan: I can't afford Aralia racemosa in the garden, unfortunately, it needs too much space. Otherwise a very nice plant to have, in your climate it probably gets growing too late, thus the late flowering and fruiting. In this region the fruits should be mature soon, if not already.
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I have also Aralia racemosa and it is a nice plant but needs room! Most years the berries have just barely enough time to ripen, this year they are still not ready and may not be at all because it is already October. This year has been strange: late Colchicums have flowered early (early ones in their normal time), but many late asters seem to be even later than normally.
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Everyone –
Nice autumn colors!
Gabriela, I especially enjoyed the autumn scenes from your part Canada.
Cohan,
Our Quaking Aspens, Populus tremuloides, are turning color in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This photograph was taken on 30 September, 6,900 feet (2,103 meters) elevation.
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Lena and Gabriela-- yes the Aralia is a handsome plant, and definitely would prefer a longer season than mine. Had I known it needed more heat, I might have tried to arrange a bit of a heat sink for it-- I don't have enough big rocks to spare, but maybe a bit of a wall or a berm beside/behind it to hold heat.. If I garden here longer term, I may still attempt to add something.. but it is handsome as it is anyway, and a wide variety of tiny pollinators like the flowers!
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Everyone –
Nice autumn colors
Cohan,
Our Quaking Aspens, Populus tremuloides, are turning color in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This photograph was taken on 30 September, 6,900 feet (2,103 meters) elevation.
nice view! This year we've had a dry few weeks, combined with no really cold spells yet, so the poplars have coloured very deeply and lasting a bit longer than sometimes --often as soon as they reach full colour, we get a windy day and it is done... still hanging on, though early turners are already bare..
Here are two views on the farm, Sept 26 and 28-- those views would already be quite different, as things have been moving very quickly! First shows Poplars (tremuloides and balsamifera), Spruce (glauca) Birch (papyrifera,likely pumila too with the low willows), various Willows, Tamarack, showing no signs of turning there, but I am seeing some now starting to colour, they are always the last... Second shows poplars, I think those are balsamifera, nearest, they are prob bare now as they drop faster than aspens, same assortment farther back, though no B papyrifera in that specific view ( the shots are only taken a few metres (and 2 days) apart, just looking more to one side..)
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