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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Irm on November 01, 2015, 03:02:31 PM
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Today its the first day in November, and here ist a wrong plant for this month ::) The German name is "Oktoberle". The ..le means "small/little" :D
Here comes the little October in November: Saxifraga cortusifolia "Kanna".
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Oh, good pink. Better in November than not at all! These plants do not do very well here in our garden - I'm not sure why.
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Crocus mathewii
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Oh, good pink. Better in November than not at all! These plants do not do very well here in our garden - I'm not sure why.
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In the UK most of these seem to be under the heading of Saxifraga fortunei whereas in Europe they seem to be in S. cortusifolia. I bought a selection of pinks and whites from Edrom earlier this year and they are doing really well in a North facing bed. A couple of not very good pictures of two of the pinks about two weeks ago in the Saxifraga thread and tomorrow, if the weather is reasonable I'll have a few more.
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The first of November and yet today was a cracking day in West Fife with clear blue skies and a temperature of 16C. In the early afternoon it was warmer than many of the days we endured in July.
I had a few butterflies in the garden along with a very late Common Darter. Some of my wife's Salvias were still flowering as is Lobelia tupa -a spike of which is nearly 8 feet tall (as we are yet to experience a frost this autumn).
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This little chap is well-travelled, it came to me from Matt in Benbecula, via Grantown on Spey, via Inverness Airport, via Bristol Airport and eventually to a trough in my garden. Many thanks Matt.
Ranunculus alpestris
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Excellent! It's looking well, David. :)
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Glorious warm sunny day here today. Clematis cirrhosa looking good, Camellia sasanqua just beginning to flower, Acers giving autumn colour.
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Steve it's amazing to me that you have Lobelia tupa flowering there and I have it flowering here... on the other side of the World (almost). i guess it has a very long flowering period? I have some spikes just developing and others in full bloom. Did yours start in late spring too? Or is it later in your cooler climate?
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Glorious warm sunny day here today. Clematis cirrhosa looking good, Camellia sasanqua just beginning to flower, Acers giving autumn colour.
Your garden must look a treat Ralph.
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Steve it's amazing to me that you have Lobelia tupa flowering there and I have it flowering here... on the other side of the World (almost). i guess it has a very long flowering period? I have some spikes just developing and others in full bloom. Did yours start in late spring too? Or is it later in your cooler climate?
Jamus, the Lobelia doesn't appear until June here and usually continues in growth until the first frosts which this year are yet to happen. Flowers are generally evident from early August onward.
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Ahh thta explains it. It behaves very differently here in South Australia. It's up and growing in the very early spring and is flowering before summer starts; but having said that, our October is probably roughly equivalent to your June!
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What an autumn!
johnw
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Lovely John, looking good here too this year. We had a run up the Exe Valley the other day finishing up at Minehead, it was beautiful.
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Your garden must look a treat Ralph.
It does...but I'm only showing you the good bits!
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I've got a lot of 'the other bits' too ;D
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Some more Autumn colour and still more to come.
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John - luscious, luscious colour there. You are definitely getting the full benefit of autumn in those leaves.
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The first of November and yet today was a cracking day in West Fife with clear blue skies and a temperature of 16C. In the early afternoon it was warmer than many of the days we endured in July.
I had a few butterflies in the garden along with a very late Common Darter. Some of my wife's Salvias were still flowering as is Lobelia tupa -a spike of which is nearly 8 feet tall (as we are yet to experience a frost this autumn).
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/563/22658486786_302411fd92_o_d.jpg)
What is the last Salvia? Looks interesting.
Steve it's amazing to me that you have Lobelia tupa flowering there and I have it flowering here... on the other side of the World (almost). i guess it has a very long flowering period? I have some spikes just developing and others in full bloom. Did yours start in late spring too? Or is it later in your cooler climate?
I mulch mine with pine needles and it is growing well by mid April flowering from June till the frost arrives.
Salvia SL411 has so much potential to be a good'un but it isn't quite delivering................
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Meanie,
Have you every grown the California annual, Thistle Sage, Salvia carduacea?
This coming season will be my first try with this species. I think that I have high hope for it.....and I do hope that it delivers!
I have to admit that I have grown a few Salvias that did not deliver. Except down at our Sacramento Valley bungalow, I have given up on the frost tender Salvia species. Too much effort getting them through the winter here at the farm where we are already having freezing temperatures at night. That still leaves plenty of cold hardy Salvia species to grow. Having said all of that, I convinced myself to buy a plant of Salvia leucophylla the other day. I am always tempted by the fragrant foliage. I do hope that it makes it through the winter. I lost a small S. clevelandii that I planted last autumn to the winter cold. The old established S. clevelandii went through the winter without any sign of damage at all. Maybe I will protect S. leucophylla this winter. An established plant will survive most winters here at the farm.
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Hi Meanie,
I'm sorry but I haven't a clue as to the name of the blue-flowered Salvia. My wife seems to delight in binning plant labels at the earliest opportunity. :o
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Some plants in flower here:
Crocus laevigatus SL165
Fuchsia 'Radings Michelle'
Iris planifolia
Colchicum cupanii
and Crocus speciosus 'Pollux'
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Or some nice Cyclamen hederifolium leaves...
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Meanie,
Have you every grown the California annual, Thistle Sage, Salvia carduacea?
This coming season will be my first try with this species. I think that I have high hope for it.....and I do hope that it delivers!
I have to admit that I have grown a few Salvias that did not deliver. Except down at our Sacramento Valley bungalow, I have given up on the frost tender Salvia species. Too much effort getting them through the winter here at the farm where we are already having freezing temperatures at night. That still leaves plenty of cold hardy Salvia species to grow. Having said all of that, I convinced myself to buy a plant of Salvia leucophylla the other day. I am always tempted by the fragrant foliage. I do hope that it makes it through the winter. I lost a small S. clevelandii that I planted last autumn to the winter cold. The old established S. clevelandii went through the winter without any sign of damage at all. Maybe I will protect S. leucophylla this winter. An established plant will survive most winters here at the farm.
Good point - I have seed for Salvia carduacea somewhere!
I must admit that I enjoy the frost tender and winter blooming species the most just for the challenge. They can be fickle (especially some of the Mexican species) but that is half the fun :DFor example, the winter bloomer S.gesneriiflora enjoyed the rubbish summer and bloomed deep into the year but the summer blooming S.confertiflora is just budding up.
S.lasianthe is budding up now and fingers crossed for a mild winter which it should enjoy in an unheated greenhouse.
Hi Meanie,
I'm sorry but I haven't a clue as to the name of the blue-flowered Salvia. My wife seems to delight in binning plant labels at the earliest opportunity. :o
That's a shame as it looks interesting. It looks like an S.microphylla/greggii/x jamensis that has the colours of S.guaranitica "Black and Blue".
First flowers on another Tibouchina urvilleana cutting...............
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Tender but fun (to me anyway)...............
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The Deppea splendens buds look good but boy are they slow forming..............
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meanie,
It is so mild at our Sacramento Valley bungalow that Tibouchina urvilleana grows right outside by our kitchen window. Blooms almost all year.
I wish that we had more room in the Sacramento garden. Years ago I grew Salvia confertiflora. Another huge shrub like S. gesneriiflora. It was always a fall - winter bloomer for us, generally starting before S. gesneriiflora which we considered winter blooming.
I still like growing forms of S. splendens from seed (only the large growing forms, I do not like the bedding types). They will sometimes survive the winter in Sacramento. S. splendens 'Vanhouttei' is a beautiful clonal form. I finally lost it when I forgot to take cuttings and the plants planted outside all froze. :'( Oh well ::) Maybe I will find Vanhouttei again. I do like it and it is perfect for our Sacramento garden that seems subtropical. :)
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meanie,
It is so mild at our Sacramento Valley bungalow that Tibouchina urvilleana grows right outside by our kitchen window. Blooms almost all year.
Show off!!!! ;D
I wish that we had more room in the Sacramento garden. Years ago I grew Salvia confertiflora. Another huge shrub like S. gesneriiflora. It was always a fall - winter bloomer for us, generally starting before S. gesneriiflora which we considered winter blooming.
I still like growing forms of S. splendens from seed (only the large growing forms, I do not like the bedding types). They will sometimes survive the winter in Sacramento. S. splendens 'Vanhouttei' is a beautiful clonal form. I finally lost it when I forgot to take cuttings and the plants planted outside all froze. :'( Oh well ::) Maybe I will find Vanhouttei again. I do like it and it is perfect for our Sacramento garden that seems subtropical. :)
S.confertiflora is usually blooming by August here.
I have seed for the true S.splendens which grow to a good two metres plus here in the UK.
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meanie,
Salvia splendens will grow 2 meters tall in one season around here too (from seed started in the late winter). It is very dramatic in the garden and I think that is why I like growing the tall, true, forms of the species. They set seed readily so it is easy to keep a seed line going.
My wife and I need to go down to Sacramento today. Maybe I will bring the camera and take so photographs of the Salvias in the garden. We will not have much time so this might not work out.
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meanie,
Salvia splendens will grow 2 meters tall in one season around here too (from seed started in the late winter). It is very dramatic in the garden and I think that is why I like growing the tall, true, forms of the species. They set seed readily so it is easy to keep a seed line going.
There was a seed line going around on one of the US forums that went under the name of Yvonnes Giant. It was talked highly of amongst the Salvia enthusiasts as being a particularly vigorous form of the true species.
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Tis one very odd autumn, warm weather - close to 20c - for the next 2 days. Found this on the weekend near Argyle - Cornus canadensis.
Hamamelis virginiana is out already.
johnw
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We also enjoy unusual warm and sunny days (17°C today) and the last flowering
plants of the season.
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Gazania linearis, Faucaria tigrina, Faucaria tuberculosa ..... for instant sunshine!
Pinguicula laueana - this Mexican pink is very pretty.
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After a long and very hot September and October cooler and average temperatures have returned. The nights are frosty now and the garden is going into rest for the winter. Also good news, rainfall is average to-date and more is in the forecast. I must take a photograph of the Crystal Range white with snow. We have not seen that too often over the past 4 years.
Now a few beautiful sights before winter sets in.
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Kiwi Fruit ready to pick and put into cold storage for later use this winter.
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The pomegranates are very sweet now and do not store well when fully ripe. We will enjoy them now. :)
The red ripe fruits are beautiful hanging on the trees / shrubs. I kinda' hate to pick them.
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Not everything was burned up by the drought and heat. Now that it has turned cooler Diasanthus cercidifolius has some colorful autumn leaves.
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Hesperantha is the only species in the garden now still putting on a good show of flowers.
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This seedling of Chaenactis douglasii was forgotten in the shade. When I found it, it was moved to a sunny location and started to grow more true to form. Maybe it will recover. :-[ I certainly enjoy the foliage of this species ....and the flowers too.
Now with cooler weather and the return of the rains our spring season has already begun with the germination of many of our native California annuals. Various species of Mimulus, Cirsium, Collinsia, Nemophila, Deinandra, Hemizonia, Layia, Madia, and Eschscholzia are all showing themselves and maybe the hope of a glorious spring show, California style where an insect could travel petal to petal in the spring across the whole Central Valley without ever touching the ground. :)
The trip to Sacramento was too rushed for photographs... hopefully Sunday, library day for my wife and I.
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Robert - I confess I had not, until now, given much thought to the "keeping " qualities of Kiwi fruit. Can you tell me how you store them and how long they tolerate storage?
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Maggi,
What I do is extremely easy. I wait until November to pick the Kiwi fruit. At this time they are "ripe", still hard, but when they soften they will be sweet. If they are picked too early in the season they either will not soften or they will become partly soft and will not be sweet. In the U.S.A this is often the case with store bought Kiwi fruit.
After picking, the fruit goes into a covered storage bin and then into refrigeration, at about 37-38 F, 3 C. They store best if refrigerated by themselves but I store them where there are also other bins containing apples, pears, or sometimes other fruit. (All in separate bins - this is important). They store well this way for 3-4 months (for us until the end of February, if they are not eaten first). If there was not any other type of fruit in the cooler they would most likely store for 6 months.
When they come out of cold storage they can be placed with other fruit at room temperature for 1-3 days until they become soft. Fruit that is already soft will not store, except of a few days in the refrigerator until they are eaten.
I feel sure that a large plastic zip-lock bags and a home refrigerator would work - maybe for a month or two. Too much ethylene gas in a home refrigetor. But the fruit needs to be hard and "ripe".
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Thank you Robert - a good lesson learned today for me!
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November is mostly a cloudy month here, and even when the sun shines, it is very low in the sky. Last week we had couple of sunny days. :) Now it's raining, but I'm glad it is rain, not snow like in the north of Finland.
This is Colchicum 'Lilac Wonder'.
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From sunny and to warm South Germany. Not only the South African plants enjoy this weather.
Haemanthus albiflos, Nerine bowdenii, Petrocosmea flaccida, Petrocosmea forrestii and Biarum marmarisense
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A few late roses in the garden today.
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Well that's the polytunnel ready for winter, if/when it arrives. Still incredibly mild here with temperatures in the mid teens Celsius - and that's at night. No frost so far.
Have moved this Tibouchina inside just in case.
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Camellia sasanqua 'Winter's Interlude' is reliable at this time of year.
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Nice single roses, Ralph.
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Yes, they're all recent cultivars with Rosa persica in their ancestry, hence the dark centres.
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Thanks for that info - Ralph, very interesting. (I've got a weak spot for dark centred flowers!)
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Just a couple of pictures of plants which are brightening up a dull, but fingers crossed, dry morning here in Bury.
The Aster ericoides is in the front garden but the Sax. fortunei's are kept in a cold frame. Conwy Snow is the larger pot at the back.
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Cheerful pictures Shelagh! I don't want to think about snow yet ;) but your S. Conwy Snow is superb, one to look out for!
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Verburnum x bodnantense dawn has started to flower here, as always beautiful little clusters of flowers and a great scent. Also in flower in a shady corner underneath a hydrangea is Lithrope Muscari, tall spikes of blue, both of these are great to see when not much else is in flower.
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I've just finished digging out the remains of my Viburnum x bodnantense 'Dawn'. It was attacked by Viburnum beetle a couple of years ago and in spite of regular spraying it was decimated last year and it was time to put it out of it's misery. I was able to save a nearby V. tinus cultivar by cutting it back to around 60cm high.
Here is how 'Dawn ' started.
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I've not seen anything like that David, I hope I don't.
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Asphodelus acaulis
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Gabriela do you grow Aster ericoides? When I was researching it I seem to remember it came from Canada as well as north USA.
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With cool frosty nights and some rainfall there has been some autumn leaf color - at least on the trees and shrubs that did not burn up during the summer and early autumn.
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This chance seedling Hamamelis has colored well - most of the leaves on the grafted varieties partial dried up, however they have survived the summer drought.
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Our giant 35 year old seedling of Parrotia persica is also starting to turn color.
P. persica 'Vanessa' defoliated then leafed out again. The new leaves are still green. Most likely they will not turn color this year.
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Viburnum bitchuenese. Great fall color, brilliant red berries, and white flushed pink flowers with a delightful fragrance. From wild Korean seed via Ferris Miller (many years ago). This species has always been a keeper! :)
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Geranium macrorrhizum looking good with frosty leaves this morning.
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Gabriela do you grow Aster ericoides? When I was researching it I seem to remember it came from Canada as well as north USA.
I don't have to, it grows on the margins of the roads and such here ;D The species grows taller than the cultivar though.
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Another classic mid winter flowering alpine Ranunculus calandrinioides. I grew this from AGS seed and this is the first flower. A bit suprised it germinated and that it was true.
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Still a bit of colour here.
Rudbeckia
Osteospermum - planted with a black pansy. The pansy was looking good up through the Osteospermum while it was having a rest and now it's flowering again the pansy is having time off. Maybe they'll get it together next year if I can keep the Osteospermum alive
Sedum 'Herbstfreude'
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I was given some Nicotiana sylvestris seedlings last year. Too small and too late to do much though 2 or 3 managed to produce a few flowers late in the season on dwarf plants. When I started to pull them out the first one looked as if it might survive so I left the rest. I forgot about them and they were hidden by other plants but when I cleared the dead foliage the other day I found at least three had survived. This is the best one but I'm afraid the summer has been too short and too cold.
Oops. Forgot the picture
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Despite 4 years of drought and water restriction this past summer the woodland garden is looking okay with a considerable amount of fall color on the trees and shrubs.
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A general view of part of the woodland garden.
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Acer palmatum 'Ornatum' - looking great. :)
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Acer palmatum 'Tsuma beni' - It consistently turns brilliant scarlet-red.
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Acer palmatum 'Tsuma beni' - close-up.
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Acer japonicum 'Vitifolium' - it burned a bit from lack of water, however some of the leaves have turned a nice color.
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Acer palmatum 'Tsukushigata'
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Stewartia monadelpha - S. pseudocamellia lost most of its foliage due to drought. It is still very much alive. :) It also consistently has good fall foliage too.
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Stachyurus praecox 'Aureomarginata'
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Cornus controversa 'Variegata' - It was said to dislike the heat. For us it has been thriving for over 20 years. > 10 meters tall now.
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Absolutely lovely Robert. I think you must have a bit more room than we have.
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Cornus controversa 'Variegata' (Weddig Cake Tree) is a beautiful tree Robert and the only tree I have in my garden. A pic here of mine taken from our bedroom window earlier this year
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Shalagh, David,
Thank you for the positive comments! :)
Shalagh, yes we have acreage here at the farm. Also, farm irrigation rates. This is considerably less expensive than residential water rates.
David,
It appears that you can grow Cornus controversa 'Variegata' in full sun. Ours grows in filtered light from the native oak canopy (Mostly Quercus douglasii).
Does the foliage on your tree turn in the autumn?
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Splendid autumn colour - or for Robert, fall color! We're just back from a week in Herefordshire, just in time for the arctic blast sweeping across the country today. Still a few things of interest in the garden: Narcissus papyraceus - this is not forced bulbs as sold in garden centres. These have been in a pot on the patio behind the house for a couple of years. They are offsets from a bulb originally bought a decade ago from a well know seller of Rare Plants as Narcissus pachybolbos, but which keys out as N. papyraceus.
Jasminum nudiflorum, common old plant but valuable winter colour.
Aspholdelus ramosus just starting to flower. This dies down in early autumn and immediately comes back into growth.
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David,
It appears that you can grow Cornus controversa 'Variegata' in full sun. Ours grows in filtered light from the native oak canopy (Mostly Quercus douglasii).
Does the foliage on your tree turn in the autumn?
Robert, I think my full sun is a bit different to yours! The picture was taken towards the end of July in the early evening when the setting sun catches the tree above the shade cast by our house and virtually the rest of day it is in the shade, or the roots and lower foliage are, of the surrounding houses and fences.
There is some autumn colour but I wouldn't call it vivid.
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Proteas, Grevilleas, Clivia, and loads more in bloom at the San Francisco Zoo a few weeks ago. (Road trip).
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This late-flowering chinese Lilium species (?majoense) has finally opened its single bud -just before the first frost of the Autumn. It's now enjoying some protection in the greenhouse.
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Hell great to see all the flowers our weather has changed to winter now heavy snowfall last night starting to melt temperature Baltic, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Made me go all shivery Ian. However Brian says there was ice on one of the water butts this morning, even here in sunny Bury.
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Last flowers of the season on Kohleria 'Sunshine' brighten up a November day.
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Hi Steve,
I think that your Lilium may be Lilium Primulinum var. Ochraceum rather than Lilium Majoense
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Thanks Ashley - we needed that ! So pretty.
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Hi Steve,
I think that your Lilium may be Lilium Primulinum var. Ochraceum rather than Lilium Majoense
Thanks TT!
Is majoense not a synonym of primulinum var. ochraceum?
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Last night we have the first temperatures below 0 °C here, after a very warm autumn. Therefore we have frosted blossoms.
Draba aizoides, Symphyandra cretica, Campanula poscharskyana and Saxifraga x elisabethae "Forsters Gold"
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Fortunately, no frosted blossoms in the greenhouse :-).
Argyrodema fissum, Galanthus peshmenii, Lysionotus Hybrid, Massonia pustulata and Petrocosmea grandiflora.
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I had a quick walk round the garden with my camera yesterday. Not much in flower.
A few Primulas
Primula 'Dawn Ansell'
Primula marginata
Primula Belarina Nectarine
Primrose
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Corydalis elata
Crocus pulchellus
Galanthus reginae-olgae (corcyrensis)
Schizostylis
Gentiana acaulis
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Last few
Helleborus niger
A double Helleborus x hybridus
Blue Meconopsis
Osteospermum jucundum compactum
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I had a quick walk round the garden with my camera yesterday. Not much in flower....
A great deal more than in mine Roma, it looks lovely.
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A great deal more than in mine Roma, it looks lovely.
I agree, still a lot of flowering plants. :)
Here the only flowers are in one snowdrop and one autumn flowering crocus. Colchicums are already over. The first Helleborus niger show buds. I'm going over my pictures of last spring and that helps through winter until next spring.
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I agree, still a lot of flowering plants. :)
Here the only flowers are in one snowdrop and one autumn flowering crocus. Colchicums are already over. The first Helleborus niger show buds. I'm going over my pictures of last spring and that helps through winter until next spring.
It must be nice having so many flowering plants this late in the season. :)
We never get very cold here in our part of California, however we have had a goodly number of frosty mornings of -3 C to -4 C since 1 November. This has been enough to shut things down for the winter. We even had a cold rain mixed with snow the other day and a goodly amount of snow further up the mountain.
The autumn foliage was excellent this year, however this did not last very long either. Now most of the colored leaves have been frozen off the trees and shrubs.
I have started to clean up the garden and apply leaf mold for the winter (some parts of the garden get nothing except the rock mulch replenish if necessary). I did not find anything in flower, but it felt great to work in the garden. It seems like I have not been able to do this in ages. :) :) :)
We are heading down to our Sacramento home / garden for a few days. There are a few Salvias still in bloom down there, however even the "mild" Sacramento Valley is getting some frost and the plants are going into winter dormancy.
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Lachenalia aloides (which I've put in the porch whilst it blooms)...............
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Deppea splendens was looking good until a pane of greenhouse glass shattered in the frost (-5.5°c) ..............
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It's in the bathroom now (along with my Cubanola) in the hope that it will recover.
Salvia lasiantha still looks promising..............
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Here's a (not very good) photo of my Salvia SL411 to show what a good plant I think it could be given a better summer.............
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Salvia leucantha continues to look good despite the cold (fleece and a sheltered spot next to an air brick in the house wall helps).............
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