September in the Northern Hemisphere

[Maggi Young]

Must be - personally cannot understand any plant that doesn't want to grow in cold wet Aberdeen!!

[ebbie]

Allium callimischon var. haemostictum:

[meanie]

The second plant is a Mexican abutilon Phymosia umbellata, new to me, which came from Nick Macer at Pan Global Plants.

What an outstanding looking bloom. Another to add to my wishlist.
Is this a garden that opens up to the public at any point?

Must be - personally cannot understand any plant that doesn't want to grow in cold wet Aberdeen!!

Add me to that list - two things that I loathe.

Nerine bowdenii...............


Mirabilis jalapa has been in bloom for months yet I've just realised that I haven't even taken a photo of it!

[Tim Ingram]

Yes, she opens for the NGS.

[Matt T]

Allium callimischon var. haemostictum:

What a fantastic display!

[johnralphcarpenter]

Clematis flammula is valuable for late seasons interest.

[Yann]

Allium callimischon var. haemostictum:

what a bundle in a single pot!

[Leucogenes]

Allium callimischon var. haemostictum:

Servus ebbie,
as always...fantastic plants

Yesterday in my rock garden...Convolvulus boissieri ssp. suendermannii...iIn September ...crazy

[Maggi Young]

A couple of recent pix from Zdenek Zvolanek who has been visiting Fritz Kummert.......


 Fritz and ZZ
"Great Austrian breeder and collector Fritz Kummert was able to show me his garden full of rare plants (he does not grow common ones). I was impressed with hardy Fuchsia gracilis ´Arauco´which can be quite decorative in rock garden (not in the bone dry one)"


One example of Fritz Kummert's  skill is the  hybridizing two cultivars of Roscoea purpurea -this is ´Ghose´x ´Red Gurkha´


 

[Tristan_He]

Must be - personally cannot understand any plant that doesn't want to grow in cold wet Aberdeen!!

Cold you may well be Maggi, but I'd say you are [url http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/climate/gfnt07u1s]on the dry side compared to many other parts of the UK[/url] (admittedly many of them are uninhabited!).

[Maggi Young]

No question that other places are wetter - but it is true that we have lost more plants to summer wet over the years than winter wet, or cold.  Here is one of the yearly weather reports prepared for the local Aberdeen RGC newsletter  by my friend John Lupton.... he lives just outside the city and has kept weather records for many years....

 Westhill Weather 2015.pdf (127.95 kB - downloaded 54 times.)

[Gabriela]

"One example of Fritz Kummert's  skill is the  hybridizing two cultivars of Roscoea purpurea -this is ´Ghose´x ´Red Gurkha´" - This is quite a Roscoea!!!

End of September in Ontario woodlands - a short 'search and retrieve fruits' mission yesterday ahead of some rainy days. Trees are not too colourful, it hasn't been cold enough yet but fruits and mushrooms are beckoning everywhere in the forest.
Moss patches with the partridge berry (Mitchella repens) without the red berries unfortunately.


Euonymus obovatus


The 'sorceress' Medeola virginiana, looking nice even without the fruits.




Something ID as the Orange Witch's Butter, and I forgot to charge my camera so that's about it.

[Hoy]

A couple of recent pix from Zdenek Zvolanek who has been visiting Fritz Kummert.......

 Fritz and ZZ
"Great Austrian breeder and collector Fritz Kummert was able to show me his garden full of rare plants (he does not grow common ones). I was impressed with hardy Fuchsia gracilis ´Arauco´which can be quite decorative in rock garden (not in the bone dry one)"
....

Fuchsia gracilis - it looks very similar to magellanica except for the flower colour?

[Hoy]

End of September in Ontario woodlands - a short 'search and retrieve fruits' mission yesterday ahead of some rainy days. Trees are not too colourful, it hasn't been cold enough yet but fruits and mushrooms are beckoning everywhere in the forest.
Moss patches with the partridge berry (Mitchella repens) without the red berries unfortunately.


Euonymus obovatus


The 'sorceress' Medeola virginiana, looking nice even without the fruits.


Something ID as the Orange Witch's Butter, and I forgot to charge my camera so that's about it.

To forget charging camera battery is one thing but to be unable to do it because of lack of infrastructure is something else!

I have successfully established one small partridgeberry in my garden! I had one Medeola seedling in a pot but it disappeared early. Hope the roots are still alive.

[Maggi Young]

Fuchsia gracilis - it looks very similar to magellanica except for the flower colour?

Yes, I think this plant is sometimes given a F. magellanica var. gracilis, and is shown as a synonym of F. magellanica by the Kew Plant List.
Rather attractive colour I think?