October 2015 in the Southern Hemisphere

[Jupiter]

Geum tangerine dream? totally tangerine? I don't know it was given to me without a name...


Heracleum mantegazzianum bursting out of its papery sheaths... I love this plant.


Heracleum again.


Pelargonium x ardens.


Lobelia tupa is beautiful whether in flower or not.

[Parsla]

Jamus,you are putting us all to shame with your photography. And the variety of plants you successfully grow.  So pretty.

[Anthony Darby]

Shouldn't these posts be in the October thread?

[Jupiter]

Oh bugger... Maggi, help...

[Jupiter]

I'm tickled pink that my Aquilegia saximontana is flowering in the rock garden. I'm assuming I have its identity correct... there is some confusion apparently and many impostors.




Edit: Already Bob Nold piped up on facebook and expressed doubt that this is saximontana. In the absence of a name I've decided to call this Aquilegia notsaximontana.

[Jupiter]

After some research I tend to agree with Bob that this is in fact A. flabellata var. pumila.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
A few photos from our garden.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
A couple more photos.

[fermi de Sousa]

We had a meeting of the Rock garden group at FCHS this afternoon and there was plenty to see on the Bench:
Left side of the Bench
Right side;
Otto's Trillium rivale forms x3
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

More of the Bench:
my Anemone pavonina from seed collected in the Peloponnese;
Helene's Ledebouria galpinii
Helene's white Anemone nemorosa
Mary Anne's exhibits including Dendrobium kingianum forms
and her posy
cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Our speaker Jill presented a talk on Epimedium and this was one of her exhibits:
Epimedium franchettii
And a few from Inge:
Gladiolus alatus
Trillium sulcatum
Trillium.....
Scadoxus

cheers
fermi

[Jupiter]

Thank you for posting those pictures from the meeting Fermi. I enjoy seeing what people are bringing in for show and tell.

I dug this Scilla peruviana out of the paddock at my Dad's place last time we were down there. He has a paddock full of bulbs planted by some previous owner who had aspirations to sell flowers as an income.

[Jupiter]

Some offerings from my patch today


Salvia corrugata


Tropaeolum pentaphyllum. A tuberous perennial species naturalised in the garden here


Tropaeolum peltophorum, an annual species twining up among its larger cousin.


Verbascum something-or-other.


The poppies begin... I grow them every year and we look forward to them.

[Jupiter]

A few more


Poppy again


Arum dioscoridis - I knew something was up as soon as I walked out the back door this morning... I smelt this little beauty before I saw it. Isabel took one whiff and ran, holding her nose.


Another view of the stinking beauty. it was hard to get the flies off it for a clear photo.

[Anthony Darby]

I dug this Scilla peruviana out of the paddock at my Dad's place last time we were down there. He has a paddock full of bulbs planted by some previous owner who had aspirations to sell flowers as an income.

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Still can't get my head round the use of the word paddock down under. I'm picturing a field where you keep horses, only it's full of bulbs.