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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: cohan on October 10, 2020, 03:42:36 PM
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I'm sure many of you have much more going on in the garden than I do, but for zone 3, we've done pretty well to have so much still going in October! It's been seasonally mild (mid teens to 20ish days), with a welcome few dry weeks (rain in recent days)-- though looks set to shift this coming week to single digit C days. These shots from Oct 02-05
1- Small Acer, maybe amurensis..
2-Self sown local wild Campanula rotundifolia (alaskana) in the garden having a second go
3-Cyclamen purpurascens-- these have been flowering since July, and as usual get a second good flush in Sept until a serious freeze or snow cover.. my camera will not get the right colour :( hard to shoot the whole patch, too, too many weeds around...lol
4-Cymbalaria pallida-- I don't think they ever fully stopped flowering, but a good second peak.. ignore the dandelion leaves-- I pulled them after noticing, but then the second shot had lost the light ;)
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Roses still going-- they also kind of flower all season, here and there, but a stronger showing late, as well..
1- rose with Parthencissus
2-rugosa cultivar/hybrid with Symphytum
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Rose & Symphytum look lovely together, Cohan!
In my garden, the asters are now mercifully covering the gaps left by the drought. Most of them are seedlings, but the red one on the left is A. n.-b. ´Royal Ruby´.
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Asters in the background with Nicotiana sylvestris.
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A seedling with leucanthemum ´Bröllopsgĺvan´.
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Symphotrichon laeve ´Les Moutiers´
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Seedlings with Zinnia ´Envy´.
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A. n.-a. ´Violetta´with seedlings.
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A seedling with the autumn-coloured Paeonia suffruticosa ´Godaishu´.
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Autumn colors everywhere in north, i like that.
Not far away the house it's mushrooms time, i stayed 3h under pines and chestnuts before a heavy rain made me run as a....Forrest.
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Yann, you had a really nice autumn walk in the forest:).
Cohan, it has been the same here this autumn, warmer than usually. It is now almost mid October and there still hasn't been frost. In my memory this is the first time the first frost comes this late. I remember in the 90s it used to come in late August or early September, and the past ten years it's been late September when the first killing frost came, but never before this late (the forecast says next week temperatures will drop). There are still many asters flowering in the garden, and I even still get tomatoes from the garden.
Mariette, you have so pretty asters, I especially like seedling with leucanthemum and the darker pink/red in the picture with zinnia. It is nice that even with the summer drought the asters grow so well in your garden! 'Violetta' is very pretty colour, I have it also, and it is now opening it's flowers. It may not have a long time to flower before frosts but I like it very much.
Couple of pictures from my garden taken yesterday. Cimicifuga 'Pink Spike' with white tall unnamed aster, and in the second picture white 'Niobe' and blue 'Blaue Lagune', both short and compact asters.
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Alstroemeria 'Indian Summer' started to flower in July and is still going on.
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Beautiful fall pictures all!
Yann - seems like you stumbled upon the mushrooms kingdom :)
I am always amazed by the fact that Aster n. angliae appears to be more cultivated outside of its native range (same goes for other NA species). I also must do better in this regard. Violetta is absolutely gorgeous!
The Canadian Thanksgiving holiday always comes with a feast of colours, fall Crocus and Colchicums. My C. speciosus has been decimated by chipmunks this summer unfortunately but I relish in the few Crocus banaticus and the others. No frost so other plants are still flowering or reflowering.
C. banaticus, Colchicum 'The Giant' and Waterlily.
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A reflowering Daphne, grown from seedex (as blagayana which is not)
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From the woods; the American beech with golden leaves now while many Acers have already lost theirs.
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Gabriela, your woods are such good autumn colour.
I am always amazed by the fact that Aster n. angliae appears to be more cultivated outside of its native range (same goes for other NA species). I also must do better in this regard. Violetta is absolutely gorgeous!
I would love Aster N.a, because it doesn't spread too much and has very sturdy stems, but here only a few cultivars have time to flower before frosts. Most of them are too late. I have had 'Violetta' now for five years, I think, and mostly it starts to flower in September, but this year for some reason it is starting only now. A friend of mine (from whom I got it) grows hers in sunnier garden than mine, and her plant was earlier even this year, so it is a very good aster and such beautiful colour.
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Seems you have a lot of plants still in bloom, all of you! Here at the summerhouse most plants are summer flowering so not many left now.
1) Begonia grandis ssp evansiana.
2) Rosa, possibly Chinatown
3) Ceratostigma willmottianum
4) Went for a walk today ans saw this rose. grown like a tree!
5) This defoliated ash shows the prevailing summer wind!
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xGordlinia grandiflora just keep flowering. Many more buds to open, they're beautiful in their own right & look like half-sized pingpong balls. johnw
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John,
I had to google this one! it looks an interesting plant. Does yours have good autumn colour? What size is the plant and how many years to flowering? A photo of the whole plant would be a useful addition.
I am tempted to give it a try....
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Carolyn - I don't recall any autumn colour, it doesn't seem to heed the approach of winter. I'll verify colouration though.
About 3 years ago Philip MacD brought me an unrooted branch from BC & I cut it up and managed to root one rather easily, the others I transplanted too early. Flowering in its 2nd year it's now over 6ft tall and grows like mad if the summer is warm enough. Flowers here open in sunny weather then stay open.
I'd send you an armload of cuttings if I lived in the UK.
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Thanks John, wish you lived in the UK then! Six feet in a couple of years is quite a lot. it will be interesting to see how big it gets in a few more years.
A couple of nurseries here are listing it. Their photos show the older leaves colouring up in autumn.
I am currently in the middle of re-doing part of our garden. We have had 2 enormous very old lime trees removed and I am waiting for the tree surgeon to return with his (hopefully) repaired stump grinder. Meanwhile I have treated myself to several nice acer palmatum, an amelanchier and a prunus serrula. A Gordonia, being evergreen, would make a nice addition - but I need to wait and see how much space i will have left. i don’t want to over-plant (which I always end up doing!)
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I am always amazed by the fact that Aster n. angliae appears to be more cultivated outside of its native range (same goes for other NA species). I also must do better in this regard. Violetta is absolutely gorgeous!
The colour of ´Violetta´is similar to some other varieties, like ´Helen Picton´, for instance. Unfortunately all but one show floppy gowth in my garden, I wonder, whether this is the same for others. Since I grew more than one clone there are some seedlings, but still have to wait for one with better manners.
@Leena: the seedling You like is such a lurker, too. In fact there are two seedlings looking identical.
Fortunately, there are not only asters in flower. :)
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And the emerging leaves of Arum italicum ´Chui´look exciting, too.
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The fruits of Poncirus trifoliatus are inedible, but the colour is very welcome
in this season.
Seeds of Iris foetidissima are quite colourful and also useful for flower arrangements.
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Reverse of Dryopteris erythrosora Autumn fern
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Two photos of Autumn scenery in Perthshire Scotland. today - from SRGC President Julia Corden
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Loch Dunmore near Pitlochry in Highland Perthshire
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Autumn in Highland Perthshire near Pitlochry
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Rose & Symphytum look lovely together, Cohan!
In my garden, the asters are now mercifully covering the gaps left by the drought. Most of them are seedlings, but the red one on the left is A. n.-b. ´Royal Ruby´.
Thanks, Mariette-- I love the Symphytum flowers, but in this spot, they grow very well and very tall, then-- flop! I now chop them off a couple of times in the season.. I've planted a couple pieces in tougher spots, maybe they will stay upright!
Nice selection of Asters you have! I have many, but all natives, with less variation in colour.
Yann -- nice views and fungi! There are many interesting ones here, too, along with lichens and mosses, I treasure these other inhabitants of forest and meadow :)
Leena-- Cimicifuga is looking great! I think we had some light frosts, but it is hard to be sure since I don't have anything that is greatly affected by light frosts..lol Around the 11-12th I think we had some stronger frost, since the Aralia finally gave up! Then on the 13th, snow! Pictures to come very soon, but the change was dramatic, from autumn to winter in a day-- 10cm or so then, and more a couple of days later, now up to 30cm or more on the ground, it is very white, and tonight forecast for -18C.. 5 more chances of snow this week....
Herman-- lovely Alstroememeria!
Gabriela-- I have never tried any autumn flowering bulbs, probably all too late for this climate, but interesting to see growing in other places..lol
Trond-- is that Begonia outdoors all year there? I know there are a couple of quite hardy ones..
John-- xGordlinia is interesting-- looks more like something that should flower in spring, rather than fall..
Rudi-- Poncirus is very pretty!
Arnold-- nature's lovely and efficient engineering :)
Maggi-- lovely views!
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What glorious autumn colours Maggi 8)
There don't seem to be any carnivorous threads so I'll post this here. Heliamphora heterodoxa x ionasii is flowering here for the first time, since early July.
Not having a tuning fork to hand I tried cutting off some of the enclosed, tube-like anthers then halving them & dusting the cut ends on the briefly-receptive stigma of a later flower. At least one ovary is swelling now but it remains to be seen whether any viable seeds result.
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What glorious autumn colours Maggi 8)
There don't seem to be any carnivorous threads so I'll post this here. Heliamphora heterodoxa x ionasii is flowering here for the first time, since early July.
Not having a tuning fork to hand I tried cutting off some of the enclosed, tube-like anthers then halving them & dusting the cut ends on the briefly-receptive stigma of a later flower. At least one ovary is swelling now but it remains to be seen whether any viable seeds result.
What a beautiful pitcher plant Ashley! I had to google for it.There are not many carnivorous plants with such handsome flowers.
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Brilliant fall colors everywhere: in public parks, in the garden and of course in the woods :)
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Hydrastis canadensis
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Viburnum acerifolium
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Trond-- is that Begonia outdoors all year there? I know there are a couple of quite hardy ones..
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Cohan,
I have not had this Begonia for more than a few months. So I haven't tried it outside during the winter yet. But it should be hardy.
I had however a couple begonias outside for several years and they survived nicely. They succumbed to death one very cold winter some years ago though.
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There don't seem to be any carnivorous threads so I'll post this here. Heliamphora heterodoxa x ionasii is flowering here for the first time, since early July.
Not having a tuning fork to hand I tried cutting off some of the enclosed, tube-like anthers then halving them & dusting the cut ends on the briefly-receptive stigma of a later flower. At least one ovary is swelling now but it remains to be seen whether any viable seeds result.
Very nice, Ashley!
Remember seeing some similar ones on Mount Roraima in Venezuela when I was there several years ago.
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Brilliant fall colors everywhere: in public parks, in the garden and of course in the woods :)
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Very brilliant indeed, Gabriela.
Such colouring is rare here at the coast. (And we still haven't had frost either.)
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Thanks Gabriela, that's a fabulous show. Maples? Autumn here is usually more muted due to smaller day/night temperature differences & often stormy weather.
Yes heliamphoras generally have large, robust & very long-lived sepals that gradually revert to green. Perhaps they do more than just advertise to pollinators, e.g. sheltering the stigma & anthers from heavy rain.
Trond, I remember your fine photos of heliamphoras in habitat with carnivorous bromeliads (Brocchinia/Catopsis?), a showy pink/red Utricularia & many other plants new to me. The tepuis must be wonderful to visit with their unique or even endemic biota, like islands scattered across an ocean of forest/savannah.
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Wonderful autumn colours! Here it is nothing like that.
Gabriela, Hydrastis canadensis is very nice yellow, it is a plus for any perennial to have good autumn colour:).
in my garden I like ostrich ferns (Matteuccia struthiopteris) when they are dyeing for the winter. They are good in spring when they come up, then in the summer they are so majestic and now in autumn also good.
Prosartes hookeri doesn't have any special colour but it is a nice plants anyway. This is a young plant which hasn't flowered yet.
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Trond and Ashley and Leena - the maples are the ones responsible for the brilliance, mainly A. rubrum, A. saccharum and A. x freemanii and their cultivars, usually selected for smaller, compact growth and reliable fall coloration.
Yes, the perennials which turn beautiful before going dormant bring a plus to the garden Leena, they make a nice contrast with the evergreens like Helleborus and Epimediums. Your Prosartes may turn yellow later, I have a young P. lanuginosa doing it, also most Solomon's Seals are turning golden, Gillenia, Maianthemum, Uvularia...to mention just a few coming fast to my mind.
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Trond, I remember your fine photos of heliamphoras in habitat with carnivorous bromeliads (Brocchinia/Catopsis?), a showy pink/red Utricularia & many other plants new to me. The tepuis must be wonderful to visit with their unique or even endemic biota, like islands scattered across an ocean of forest/savannah.
Yes, thanks. That was en extraordinary trip! I would love to go there once more.
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Trond and Ashley and Leena - the maples are the ones responsible for the brilliance, mainly A. rubrum, A. saccharum and A. x freemanii and their cultivars, usually selected for smaller, compact growth and reliable fall coloration.
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Gabriela,
No autumn colouring of the native Acer platanoides (Norway maple) here yet. Though I know it is getting yellow and orange on the other side of the mountains!
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Crocus sativus
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Nice-- do you get any harvest from this?
Ashley- that's a beauty-- if I recall the leaves are beautiful too?
Gabriela- lovely! Native trees here are pretty much all golden, though lots of other colours in understory- of course now the main colour is white!
Leena-- Disporum/Prosartes trachycarpa has brilliant gold here, have never grown any others; here it is way back on Sept 15.. seems I only got this one not so exciting shot, this year.
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Trond-- very cool plants from Roraima!
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Reaching back to when it was still autumn ;) Oct 02-05
1- The smaller of my two Aralia racemosa-- this one is farther from any sheltering/heat holding objects, so a bit smaller, and yellowing sooner, though the fruit reached about the same level of (im)maturity.. with Prentanthes purpurea to the left, prob still some flowers at that time, Tiarella cordifolia lower right, etc; I think the dry, curled up foliage in front is the Disporum/Prosartes we were just talking about!
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2- The larger Aralia, with a hint of colour-- the bright spots may mostly be related to hail damaged areas!
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3,4- Cornus- stolonifera? the garden version of the Red Osier Dogwood, similar in all obvious ways to the native plants, but *much* larger- 2-3 metres tall and wider than that, in spite of serious moose pruning each year (not sure, but I think they may have already come for it since that photo! they are mainly winter workers in the yard)
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5- Heterotheca villosa in seed; grown some years ago from wild seed collected in the montane zone..
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Continuing...
1- Lamium ex cult; not sure of the exact origin of this one, growing on a rock garden side.. so far they are pleasant things in a couple of spots I have them, not at all overwhelming anything, long flowering season
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2- Malus /Apple
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3- Malva-- I've never quite pinned down a species on this... I think they are perennial ( sounds obvious, but not always easy to tell when there are multiple self-sowing plants!), at least several feet tall in my conditions (which are not that cushy).
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4- Sanguisorba sp Japan I have a couple of sp(?) from seed from Lisa Wesley, both with white flowers, I think one was named, one just sp Japan, now forget which is which, need to root in the soil for a label.. nice subtle, dark, bronzy fall colour
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5- Sorbus cf S. wilsoniana seedlings in ground. Not looking at their best on a dull day, but the colour is intense as Sorbus seem to tend to.
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Some autumn colour
1. Corylus americana
2. + 3. Cornus kousa Satomi
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Ranunculus bullatus from Andalucia
- an easy species when a warm and dry summer rest given
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Splendid autumn colours and an unusual autumnal flower! Autumn colours of leaves are not always as good as in other years in our region, probably due to the unusual drought of recent years. Our morello cherry in the background surprises with glowing orange leaves - a winner of the change?
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The first Galanthus reginae-olgae - lost under asters.
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Crocus speciosus and Cyclamen hederifolium.
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I´m not sure what to think of this crocus - some like this appeared in a group of Crocus speciosus, but lack the yellow anthers.
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Including some pictures from 2 weeks ago.
Caryopteris incana
Tripora divaricata
Tricyrtis hirta
Tricyrtis hirta forma alba
Diosporis kaki
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Here this autumn has been so unusually warm! it is now almost end of October, and there has been only two or three night below freezing, and that only one or two degrees. Right now it is +11°C (and raining, it has rained a lot).
Asters have never flowered so long and well as this year. The first picture is 'Violetta' and second is Aster laevis 'Calliope' which is also late flowering here and doesn't mind the rain so much. Pictures are from last week.
Colchicum 'Poseidon' is the latest one I have, the others are now over.
Primula 'Vera Maud' flowering out of season.
Last week I made a new bed by the fence mostly for Hepaticas I had in pots, seedlings and some bigger plants. This spot is summer dry because of a big birch in neighbour's side of the fence (abandoned field).
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This month in IRG free e-mag: Martin Sheader with a report on South American Adesmia species; the history of a well- known American plant, Calochortus lyallii – brought to us by Arthur MacKinnon of Washington State, USA; Zdeněk Zvolánek & František Paznocht combine to introduce a Saxifraga cultivar.
Download the issue here: https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Oct291603992737IRG130.pdf
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Some Autumn colour from earlier in the month
Polygonatum hookeri
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Berberis 'Rose Glow' enhanced by the neighbours' Sycamore
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This month in IRG free e-mag: Martin Sheader with a report on South American Adesmia species; the history of a well- known American plant, Calochortus lyallii – brought to us by Arthur MacKinnon of Washington State, USA; Zdeněk Zvolánek & František Paznocht combine to introduce a Saxifraga cultivar.
Download the issue here: https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Oct291603992737IRG130.pdf
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Beautiful fall scenery from Julia and great articles; now that the days are getting shorter what better reads than the IRG-s? :)
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Some Autumn colour from earlier in the month
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What a fantastic view Roma. Hopefully my little one will expand with the same exuberance. Picture from more than a week ago:
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Here this autumn has been so unusually warm! it is now almost end of October, and there has been only two or three night below freezing, and that only one or two degrees. Right now it is +11°C (and raining, it has rained a lot).
Asters have never flowered so long and well as this year. The first picture is 'Violetta' and second is Aster laevis 'Calliope' which is also late flowering here and doesn't mind the rain so much. Pictures are from last week.
Colchicum 'Poseidon' is the latest one I have, the others are now over.
Primula 'Vera Maud' flowering out of season.
Last week I made a new bed by the fence mostly for Hepaticas I had in pots, seedlings and some bigger plants. This spot is summer dry because of a big birch in neighbour's side of the fence (abandoned field).
I am sure you will enjoy the new bed Leena. Speaking of Hepatica and new beds, here's a picture of yesterday when I was admiring the Hepaticas and their well formed flower buds.
Hepatica acutiloba and nobilis var. crenatuloba - a chance seedling
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I also made in the summer a special place, a nursery, just for young Epimediums, Podophyllums and Hepaticas. I think they go well together.
Picture with one 'big baby' Podophyllum (pleianthum x versipelle I think).
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Lots more great colour, everyone, and flowers :) the main fall colour here for a couple of weeks was white! It looked more like January than October with snow day after day and 30-40cm on the ground, but now we've had several days at or above average , so lots of melting, it's like having a second spring melt! Still lots of white around, but more warm days to come-- even a few forecast next week from 15-17!
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Cohan, weather is so unpredictable these days. Normally also here the first snow would come around this time, but not this year. I don't complain, there is still too much to do in the garden:).
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Roma, that is very nice autumn red. I sowed the same plants last winter, they germinated in spring and now they have been the same red in autumn. I'm looking forward to them growing bigger and if they survive here, they would be a very nice autumn colour plants!
Speaking of Hepatica and new beds, here's a picture of yesterday when I was admiring the Hepaticas and their well formed flower buds.
Hepatica acutiloba and nobilis var. crenatuloba - a chance seedling
That is a very nice combination! It has almost spring-like light in the picture.
I should also make a proper nursery bed, now I try to put new plants from pots in between the existing plants, or just make a new bed which is nicer, but after a while I will have to move them when I have planted them too close to each other. Still, it is always so satisfying to have new seed grown plants to plant!
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Cohan, weather is so unpredictable these days. Normally also here the first snow would come around this time, but not this year. I don't complain, there is still too much to do in the garden:).
I'm not even thinking about the garden now, other than to take a few pics, if it gets dry enough, may harvest a few more seeds, but mostly hoping to use the next few warm days to get ahead on woodcutting! Looks like winter will return again on the weekend..