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Rafa

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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #90 on: October 24, 2008, 12:51:48 PM »
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 ;D. I am growing it in the bulb frame.
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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #91 on: October 24, 2008, 08:18:08 PM »
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.
so many species....so little time

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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #92 on: October 24, 2008, 08:30:44 PM »
continuing...
so many species....so little time

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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #93 on: October 24, 2008, 08:36:37 PM »
Great grasses..... so photogenic.


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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #94 on: October 24, 2008, 08:48:48 PM »
and the last...
so many species....so little time

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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #95 on: October 25, 2008, 06:32:58 PM »
A very confused gentian here and an arisaema seed head
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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #96 on: October 26, 2008, 09:24:57 AM »
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'.
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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #97 on: October 26, 2008, 09:48:12 AM »
................... 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?
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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #98 on: October 26, 2008, 10:35:50 AM »
David,

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

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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #99 on: October 26, 2008, 11:52:58 AM »
Spot on Paul, I couldn't bring it to mind.
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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #100 on: October 26, 2008, 12:12:24 PM »
Flippin' eck! Not another name gone west! >:(
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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #101 on: October 26, 2008, 03:50:33 PM »
................... 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.
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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #102 on: October 28, 2008, 02:03:05 PM »
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.
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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #103 on: October 28, 2008, 10:18:19 PM »
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
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Re: Flowers and foliage October 2008
« Reply #104 on: October 29, 2008, 07:11:52 AM »
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.
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