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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Maggi Young on October 01, 2015, 03:54:15 PM
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This photo is from Alan Elliott- taken in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
"Clematis 'Bill Mackenzie' flowering & fruiting on the alpine wall @ TheBotanics. Looking the business in the sunshine"
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The late, great Bill Mackenzie was a founder member of the Scottish Rock Garden Club - this isa super plant to remember him by.
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Very misty here all morning until the sun broke through about 12.30. Then fantastic sunny hot day. Not what we are used to in Stirling in October. This last week has been the best of the summer.
Some pictures taken this afternoon.
1. Cyclamen hederifolium 'White Cloud'. Hint of pink in the photo, but the actual flowers are pure white.
2. Corydalis flexuosa bought as 'Blue Dragon' from local garden centre, but the leaves are much greener than my other 'Blue Dragon' / 'Purple Leaf'. Still has lots of flowers.
Some of the gentians in a sunny spot are further forward than these ones which are a month behind where they were last year.
3. Gentian 'Balmoral' which is the furthest forward.
4. G. farreri Duguid’s Form has its first few flowers.
5. G. sino-ornata has most buds still to open.
Bob
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This photo is from Alan Elliott- taken in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
"Clematis 'Bill Mackenzie' flowering & fruiting on the alpine wall @ TheBotanics. Looking the business in the sunshine"
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The late, great Bill Mackenzie was a founder member of the Scottish Rock Garden Club - this isa super plant to remember him by.
A bright and cheerful Clematis picture - perfect for the first day of October!
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Very misty here all morning until the sun broke through about 12.30. Then fantastic sunny hot day. Not what we are used to in Stirling in October. This last week has been the best of the summer.
Some pictures taken this afternoon.
1. Cyclamen hederifolium 'White Cloud'. Hint of pink in the photo, but the actual flowers are pure white.
2. Corydalis flexuosa bought as 'Blue Dragon' from local garden centre, but the leaves are much greener than my other 'Blue Dragon' / 'Purple Leaf'. Still has lots of flowers.
Some of the gentians in a sunny spot are further forward than these ones which are a month behind where they were last year.
3. Gentian 'Balmoral' which is the furthest forward.
4. G. farreri Duguid’s Form has its first few flowers.
5. G. sino-ornata has most buds still to open.
Bob
I would kill for that Gentiana 'Balmoral' - that's a good thing no one grows it around here (as far as I know).
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I can't resist to send this pic of a spectacular autumn colour - Corylus americana!
- plant received from a nice French Forimist.
Gerd
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Don't know where to put this. Just invested in a scanner and am learning to use it. Is it obvious that the picture is a scanned slide?
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Super picture, Anne - I asked Ian - without telling him it was a scan - what he thought of it - he likes it very much. Neither of us would have said it was a scan.
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Thanks, Maggi. I think the better the slide is, the easier it is to get a good result. Some of them can have a slight lavender tinge but you can get rid of that with Microsoft picture manager with a little work. I can see I'll be spending the winter months scanning a million slides!
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A job for the snow days, Anne - but it will be worthwhile I'm sure.
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A couple more scanned slides. These are of the original part of the rock garden before the tornado in 2000 basically destroyed most of it when a 300 year old white oak was dumped on top of it.
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These scans are coming out very well, Anne.
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A late small flowered Clematis - no idea which one.
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Possibly C. paniculata?
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We have had the first frosty night now, but Asters and Colchicums are still flowering well.
I divided Colchicum 'Autumn Herald' in August and planted in several places, here is one.
Colchicum 'Glory of Heemstede' is doing well
Colchicum 'Bill Dykes' in Aster/Iris -bed.
Unknown red Aster dumosus
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Some more pictures of Asters.
Aster novae-angliae 'Violetta'
Aster novae-angliae 'Barr's Pink'
A nameless Aster novi-belgii (it was sold as 'Patricia Ballard' which it is not, it has bigger and less double flowers, also its flowers are not so dark pink as PB)
Aster pyrenaeus 'Lutetia'
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I am just a beginner with Cyclamen, but I do enjoy the foliage on some species this time of year.
1> Cyclamen graecum or something close to it.
2> Cyclamen persicum albidum, there are flower buds forming for later in the season.
3> Geum triflorum, I like the foliage of this species and it preforms extremely well down here in the hot lower elevations.
4> Geum triflorum, close-up.
5> Viola adunca thriving in the lower elevations. It bloomed on and off all summer. I wanted to post photographs when it was in bloom but this did not work out. Maybe next year. :)
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A bit of autumn colour
Polygonatum hookeri
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A bit more autumn colour...
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More autumn colours and some late flowering plants:
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More pictures:
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Glorious autumn colours now Southwestern Ontario. Sassafras albidum at its northerly limit here, with the curious mix of mitten shape and unlobed leaves:
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Glorious autumn colours now Southwestern Ontario.
Great colours.
Sassafras albidum at its northerly limit here, with the curious mix of mitten shape and unlobed leaves:
I find it oddly pleasing that there are trees that cannot make up their mind what to "wear" too ;D
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I've shown the Salvia before but they're still doing well so here's S.atrocyanea.............
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And S.urica............
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Whilst I was away Tibouchina urvilleana put its first bloom out (better late than never and all that)...............
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Thunbergia gregorii................
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Cyrtanthus elatus...............
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Echeveria pulvinata..............
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Schizostylis................
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It's a treat to see those hot-coloured flowers, meanie - it's flippin' perishin' here!
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With the dry warm weather plus cold nights it seemed time to look for autumn colour. However, we are at least a week away from the trees being at their best down here so we headed for Dawyck gardens in the borders. As luck would have it, we arrived at Dawyck just as the sun came through. No wind and 16°C - very pleasant.
The problem with autumn foliage is the different rates that the trees colour. Our native Rowan and Birch seem to be the earliest to change. Thousands of years have taught them to hunker down early whereas foreign varieties with warmer longer Autumns take their time.
Anyway it was a very pleasant stroll making up for a poor Summer - it was actually warmer than some July/August days !.
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Stunning autumn colours at Dawyck (https://www.rbge.org.uk/visit/dawyck-botanic-garden/), Tom. The Crocus speciosus is just terrific - seems to be getting a good support from the grass to keep it standing well.
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Cyclamen looking very nice,Robert. The only thing happening cyclamen wise here is a few Cyclamen hederifolium and cilicium.
The leaves are one thing but the flowers can be just a spectacular. I think.
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Great colours.
I find it oddly pleasing that there are trees that cannot make up their mind what to "wear" too ;D
Thanks Maggi, in reality the colours are even more brilliant at this time! Sassafras it is a best girl's friend/tree :D
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Sassafras is just SUCH a good name - make me smile every time - I know - I need to get out more!
Gabriela - thanks too for your "seeds to scale" photos - adding to our resource. 8)
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A rarity, Castanea dentata, in the Annapolis Valley 10 days ago. The nuts were not quite ready. And another here in Halifax.
johnw - +16c & heavy rain.
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These are flowering for some weeks already, and the more it rains, the heavier the flowers perfume the air :) Hedychium Gardnerianum who grew twice as tall as last year, I assume because they remained in the green for the entire winter and had the opportunity to make use of the spring sunlight with last year's leaves.
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It's a treat to see those hot-coloured flowers, meanie - it's flippin' perishin' here!
The same here too!
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Another seedling of Calydorea amabilis has bloomed. This one has the distinct markings and the petals and standards which are absent on the other seedling that has bloomed. I'm really pleased as the seed was only sown in January.................
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Here's a seedling grown from seed collected from Salvia "Black and Blue" last year..................
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Distinctly different to the parent plant but that could be because it is still a young plant or it could be that it will remain different next year............
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Meanie,
Calydorea amabilis looks great! 8)
Cypella coelestis in bloom again after having the tops eaten off them by the deer. >:(
They would have bloomed all summer if the deer had not come along (more like somehow got through the deer fencing).
There are plenty more buds coming on. The 94 F (34.5 C) weather certainly helps, but this is a bit too hot for this time of year. 94 F was a record high temperature for the date (13 October).
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Well I certainly never expected Arundo donax 'Versicolor' to flower in this climate...to say nothing of the bananas - Musa basjoo - which survived the winter virtually unscathed.
johnw - +20c & sunny
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Nice Hedychiums Francois! I got tired of watering, feeding and fighting off the red spider mite in the conservatory, so planted my H. gardnerianum out in the garden. It survived the winter but no flowers this year. Perhaps a warmer summer will entice it to flower...
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Some snaps from my garden. The beautiful autumn weather is great, quite a few years things just get battered by gales and we lose all the flowers.
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Not-quite-flowering-yet Eryngium pandanifolium. Despite being from Brazil it's completely hardy for me. I grow it in a damp spot at the bottom of the garden and it gets a bit bigger every year. The 4m high (ish - I've never got on a ladder to measure them) flower spikes are very architectural and the red colour is unusual in an Eryngium.
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Another Eryngium - paniculatum I think. I got it in one of Plant World Seeds's mixed Eryngium packets so it could be one of several species. Not in flower any more but the developing seedheads are nice and again quite architectural. If only I were a good enough garden designer to take advantage!
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Kniphofia uvaria. Really vivid and always one of the last to flower. The flowering stems don't seem to be mollusc prone either, unlike many other Kniphofia in my garden.
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Malus 'Dolgo'. A really good doer up here, some of the traditional varieties like 'Red Sentinel' and 'Golden Hornet' don't always fruit for me.
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A nice little Aster - can anyone identify it? Bought as 'Winston S. Churchill' but that one is supposed to be magenta. Whatever it is I really like it, though it needs protection from slugs earlier in the year.
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Malus 'Dogo' is a super colour - I'm not familiar with such cultivars so it's a pleasant surprise to see them.
No idea about the Aster - but I like the compact form and neat flowers. 8)
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A tiny spider has spun its web on a Narcissus mniatus flower.
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Last year on 4th September 2014, I posted the first picture below to show 3 shades of blue. The plant at the bottom right is Gentian farreri Duguid's Form, the one at the top is multiheaded and is G. Balmoral while I think the one at the left I think is G. Lucerna (lost label).
Second picture was taken today (i.e. 6 weeks later than last year) of the same three plants. G. Balmoral is a lot further forward than in last year's picture (although it was still a month behind) while G. Lucerna is at much the same stage. Just shows how much later the season is here compared with last year.
Bob
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Malus 'Dolgo'. A really good doer up here, some of the traditional varieties like 'Red Sentinel' and 'Golden Hornet' don't always fruit for me.
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My original Red Sentinel, maybe 15 years old is so heavy with fruit now the branches are weighed down to the ground. It will have to be cut back yet again to prevent snapping the branches. A new one just 2 years in this garden is similarly having to be tied to a cane it is so heavy with fruit. Never had fruiting problems with it, other than too many. Odd branches have been cut for flower displays and fruiting branches with the holly at Christmas. The old one kept a flock of "thrushes" happy for 3 days a few winters back. What a mess. I was recommended to plant one called "Gorgeous" as an improved Red Sentinel. After 2 years prefer RS. Many more brighter coloured fruit on RS, but not having the 2 together I would probably have been happy with G.
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Brian, I agree 'Red Sentinel' is usually excellent and I was hoping for something similar from mine. My mother grows one and looks very much like your description, even down to the winter visits of fieldfares and redwings! Mine grows and flowers reasonably well but does not set much fruit. I don't know why as there are plenty of pollinating trees. Possibly it does not like our exposed location and poor soil. Crab apples give so much - blossom, fruit and autumn colour in many cases, and they help pollinate the 'real' apples.
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Meanie,
Calydorea amabilis looks great! 8)
Cypella coelestis in bloom again after having the tops eaten off them by the deer. >:(
They would have bloomed all summer if the deer had not come along (more like somehow got through the deer fencing).
There are plenty more buds coming on. The 94 F (34.5 C) weather certainly helps, but this is a bit too hot for this time of year. 94 F was a record high temperature for the date (13 October).
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How nice is that! :)
Salvia "Royal Bumble" from the seed that Hans J sent me.................
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Meanie,
What a vivid red Salvia. 8) It reminds me of Salvia blepharophylla. It was a nice species for us - fairly compact growth and a long blooming season. Unfortunately, it was boarder-line cold hardy for us up here at the farm and we lost it during a cold winter (when was the last time that happened around here?).
One of these days I will give it a try down at our Valley bungalow. It will most likely thrive there.
Thinking of the Sacramento Valley - Salvia semiatrata has started blooming for us too. Being close to the Sacramento River, the climate is mild - like we can grow Avocados - S. chiapensis blooms almost all year. Salvia sinaloensis is great too - gentian blue flowers and very low and compact growth. It is very easy to fit in here and there, but it likes rich soil otherwise it will not bloom well.
I am so busy with the farmers' market when I am down there that it seems like I rarely have time for photographs. It would also help if I remembered to bring the camera with me. ::) Juggling too many things right now.
Anyway, I am enjoying the photographs from your garden. All very different and refreshing to see.
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Robert;
My S.semiatatra is still some way off blooming but S.lasiantha is starting to bud up and judging by the colour so far it looks as if I may have the true species ;D
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Couldn't resist this photo from the super Macplants (http://www.macplants.co.uk)
Gentiana 'The Caley' (named for the anniversary of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society the other year) " still performing and looking stunning" ..... Yep!
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Oh my goodness. That is so spectacular, Maggi.
What's going on in the garden here is just bits and pieces.
1. Chrysanthemum weyrichii which is in the garden in both pink and white forms
2. Leaf color of epimediums
3. Astragalus utahensis still throwing blooms and making seed pods
4. A few blooms on Daphne x hendersonii 'Ernst Hauser', blooming darker than it does in the spring.
Eternally grateful to Harry Jans for introducing this one.
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And a few more.
1. Daphne velenovskyi 'Balkan Rose', well into its 4th bloom of the year.
2. Primula japonica, obviously confused about the season.
3. Zauschneria 'Wayne's select' - a wonderful contrast of silver foliage and orange flowers
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A couple of pictures for the seed picture collection, plus a single flower on a Clematis sp. Tonight we are expecting the first hard frost of the season. Raw and very windy today - Fall cleanup was not fun.
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Epimedium foliage is spectacular, Anne - no doubt that having good spreads of it like that make the display really "pop."
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Couldn't resist this photo from the super Macplants (http://www.macplants.co.uk)
Gentiana 'The Caley' (named for the anniversary of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society the other year) " still performing and looking stunning" ..... Yep!
Wow! I'm ordering one!
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Anne,
A nice medley of photographs.
Primula japonica gets confused around here too at times. The fall blooming plants somehow bloom again in the spring. ???
I will try to get out and photograph our Epilobium 'Waynes Silver'. I will be curious what you think.
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Hi Anne,
Your tiny Daphnes are just beautiful. Thanks for showing them.
Jacqui.
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Found in the garden this morning, Geastrum triplex I think.
Looks like the slugs first course were the crocus, now after his mains.
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Caught in the act, Mike!
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Hi Anne,
Your tiny Daphnes are just beautiful. Thanks for showing them.
Jacqui.
Thanks so much, Jacqui.
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Found in the garden this morning, Geastrum triplex I think.
Looks like the slugs first course were the crocus, now after his mains.
Very nice, Mike.
With the paucity of woodland, I haven't seen Earthstars up here, but would agree with Geastrum triplex.
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Malus 'Dogo' is a super colour - I'm not familiar with such cultivars so it's a pleasant surprise to see them.
This is a relatively new Malus cultivar - Malus 'Laura'. Excellent colour and superb crab apple jelly.
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Some more Autumn colour from Metasequoia glyptostroboides , Dawn Redwood.
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Very nice, Mike.
With the paucity of woodland, I haven't seen Earthstars up here, but would agree with Geastrum triplex.
Thanks Chris, have not got a clue how this fungi found its way into my dry, south facing garden.
Great to see them though.
Crocus speciosus with a wasp feeding.
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Autumn Gentians - must get them planted in the ground next year.
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Hedychium gardnerianum
I think this is the first time it has flowered since the year I got it. I thought I had lost it after the very cold 2010/2011 winter but two tiny shoots appeared in late summer in the centre of the pot and it has kept growing since. It usually keeps the old foliage till well into the summer. This year I cut off the old shoots early and I think because the new shoots grew faster one has managed to flower.
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Crocus speciosus - growing in a sand bed. In our garden, this is the only location where this Crocus species has grown well. I have tried it in a variety of other sites, where it has disappeared or grown very poorly.
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The garden is starting to shut-down for the winter, however this pink Hesperantha is looking good in the garden right now. :)
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Epilobium 'Wayne's Silver' - It has survived the drought for another year. It bloomed very poorly this fall and even the silver foliage is mixed with dead foliage and twigs. It received very little in the way of irrigation this past summer. I will try another plant in a better location next year.
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Hedychium gardnerianum
I think this is the first time it has flowered since the year I got it. I thought I had lost it after the very cold 2010/2011 winter but two tiny shoots appeared in late summer in the centre of the pot and it has kept growing since. It usually keeps the old foliage till well into the summer. This year I cut off the old shoots early and I think because the new shoots grew faster one has managed to flower.
Mine has not flowered this year for the first time in a couple of year as it was so late to warm up this year. I like to leave the old growth on until late spring to protect the tubers from rot even it has been killed by cold weather and flopped over.
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My Hedychium lives in the greenhouse all year round in a large pot. The greenhouse is heated with a gas heater and does not usually go much below freezing. It only has two shoots which have now reached the edge of the pot again. I really must get round to splitting and repotting. It is one of those pots which curves in towards the rim so I can see difficulties if I do not want to smash the pot :-\
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Some whites: Crinodendron patagua seems to flower on and off throughout the summer and autumn; the tiny but highly scented flowers of Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Goshiki'.
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Robert, interesting to see your Zauschneria 'Wayne's Silver' (probably the same as my 'Wayne's select'), because it was still in bloom. After a couple of nights with temps to the teens F, almost all bloom in the garden was wiped out. Still some flowers on Daphne x hendersonii 'Ernst Hauser' and D. velenovskyi 'Balkan Rose', but the two Primula japonicas that were in bloom were wiped out.
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Biarum davisii
-well Halloween is around the corner. ::)
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Persicaria affinis 'Darjeeling Red'
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Biarum davisii
-well Halloween is around the corner. ::)
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Glorious!
Salvia leucantha is just coming into bloom now...............
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Kept frost free it should bloom pretty much all winter now.
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meanie,
Is that the pink and white form of Salvia leucantha or the all pink form? Hard for me to tell as it seems like the flowers are not 100% open. We have both around here (at least in the Sacramento Valley, California, where they are cold hardy).
They bloom all winter in the Sacramento Valley, too. Get big!
Anyway, looks great!
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I have a untidy pot of Ipheon sessile/Tristagma recurvifolium out at present. Untidy because I forgot it and it grew threw some weeds. A delightful plant with white starry flowers and almost black stripe on the reverse. Photos on the PBS website and on the Wisley diary here. Mine came from Paul Cumbleton I think.
Asphodelus acaulis had a single flower 2 days ago. Only lasted a day. Did not notice any last year, but maybe I just missed it if they at that short lived.
I am still hoping my Hedychium buds are going to open before the first frosts. A near thing to nights ago; <2C min.
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Colours have developed quickly in the past week or so as a walk through the 75 hectare Pt. Plesasant Park in the Halifax's south end proved today.
Photo #1 the park was flattened by Hurricane Juan's 170k/hr winds 12 years ago and turned from an aged forest to a virtual hayfield as a result. Calluna vulgaris has spead remarkably throughout the park withthe increase of light on the forest floor.
Gaultheria procumbens has proliferated as well, Photo #2 & #3.
Photo #4 nothing can touch the Gaylussacias for autumn colour and the show can continue into December, Gaylussacia baccata.
Photo #5 the keeper's house with the local Rhododendron hybrid 'Minas Grand Pré'.
BTW the park is still British property and leased to the city for 1 shilling per year. Wonder how they work that out?
johnw - may get the first touch of frost on plants tonight with a low of +1c, it will be welcomed as they need to slow down.
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Betula avec Parthenocissus in our front garden today. The Pampas Grass is also stunning at the moment, planted around 40 years ago when the house was built - probably 'Sunningdale Silver' - and the yellow colouring tree behind the birch is Gleditsia triacanthos 'Sunburst', the Honey Locust from the USA. In the foreground Grevillea rosmarinifolia 'Williamsi', an amazing Australian shrub rarely without flowers all year long.
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meanie,
Is that the pink and white form of Salvia leucantha or the all pink form? Hard for me to tell as it seems like the flowers are not 100% open. We have both around here (at least in the Sacramento Valley, California, where they are cold hardy).
They bloom all winter in the Sacramento Valley, too. Get big!
Anyway, looks great!
It is the pink and white form. To be honest it is more about the calyces here as the flowers are rather small and insignificant (the one that you can see is about as open as they get) when grown outdoors or in an unheated greenhouse. I have a form called "Purple Velvet" coming along from seed (it is supposedly fairly reliably true from seed) which flowers about a month earlier and has bigger flowers. It is also the only form which will reliably set seed here.
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Not in the garden but this picture is of October colour, img 1000839. Also still in flower this month, the recently discussed sheeps bit scabious, J. montana. img 1000796.
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Just a couple of pictures taken in preparation of today’s gusty, drenching storm; it was a good idea...
Polygonatum x hybridum, Viburnum dentatum & Yucca.
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And my favourite Hydrangea, the North American ;) H. quercifolia (the dwarf 'Munchkin' here).
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Lovely fall colour, Gabriela. Sorry to hear bad weather has hit you.
Damp, very grey day here and yet 3 o'clock in the afternoon here and so dark already. Luckily not very stormy.