October 2019

[TC]

Five more.

[Leucogenes]

Due to the warm temperatures of the last weeks some plants in the rock garden play crazy... Physoplexis comosa var. pubescens.

[Leena]

Wonderful autumn colours! Here most are gone, only Rosa spinosissima (Finnish white double) has still good colour.

This fall has been very wet. Rain almost every day. Not all plants like it!
The Colchicums certainly do not

How big clumps of Colchicums you have, they really like your garden.
I have also both 'The Giant' and 'Waterlily', and they fall over here, too. Some cultivars/species are more prone to it, I think. C.autumnale is flat on it's face almost the next day after it has come up, even in good weather, but I like them anyway.
'Poseidon' has quite sturdy stems in flowers. This picture was taken last week and it's first flowers came up in the beginning of October.

[David Nicholson]

October (and indeed September) have been very wet here with Maureen having logged 22 wet days in October. Certainly the early part of November promises to be just as wet (if not wetter!) if the Met. Office proves right. A very late (or early) Pulsatilla has at least struggled to put up a bit of colour.





 

[Leena]

Here the last week of October was cold. Several nights between -4 and one even -6, and days barely above zero, but also sun from tim to time.
Last night it started to rain and now it is +5°C.
'Poseidon' with frost.
Sun shining through ferns.
Just before frosts I started to make a new bed for spring plants. This is a spot where snow melts first in the spring, and in the bed behind are my earliest snowdrops, so I'm thinking also this bed is going to be a good one for early flowers. In the summer it is quite dry and shady. I already planted Hepatica americana, grown from Gabriela's seeds, and some crocus bulbs and moved two small snowdrop clumps, but I will plant more of them next summer.

[Hoy]

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How big clumps of Colchicums you have, they really like your garden.......

Like a weed...

Here the last week of October was cold. Several nights between -4 and one even -6, and days barely above zero, but also sun from tim to time.
Last night it started to rain and now it is +5°C.
'Poseidon' with frost.
Sun shining through ferns.
Just before frosts I started to make a new bed for spring plants. This is a spot where snow melts first in the spring, and in the bed behind are my earliest snowdrops, so I'm thinking also this bed is going to be a good one for early flowers. In the summer it is quite dry and shady. I already planted Hepatica americana, grown from Gabriela's seeds, and some crocus bulbs and moved two small snowdrop clumps, but I will plant more of them next summer.

Exciting with a new bed! I also have planted some Hepaticas from Gabriela's seed but the sheep unfortunately damaged some.

We have just had one night with -1C but many plants struggle in the wet weather.

Here is one example, Crocus sativus

[Leena]

Thanks Trond. You may have noticed that the fern in the new bed is one from you some years ago.

[Stefan B.]

autumn

[Gabriela]

autumn

Beautiful pictures Stefan!

[Gabriela]

Here the last week of October was cold. Several nights between -4 and one even -6, and days barely above zero, but also sun from tim to time.
Last night it started to rain and now it is +5°C.
'Poseidon' with frost.
Sun shining through ferns.
Just before frosts I started to make a new bed for spring plants. This is a spot where snow melts first in the spring, and in the bed behind are my earliest snowdrops, so I'm thinking also this bed is going to be a good one for early flowers. In the summer it is quite dry and shady. I already planted Hepatica americana, grown from Gabriela's seeds, and some crocus bulbs and moved two small snowdrop clumps, but I will plant more of them next summer.

You seem to have unlimited garden space Leena Always making new beds! which all turn out wonderful. Hepatica with Crocus and Snowdrops, I already picture how beautiful will be in the spring time!
 'Poseidon' looks very nice with frost.

Just few pictures I did before the weather turned bad 3 days ago; the fall has been all gold this year: Polygonatum 'Spiral Staircase', Aruncus aethusifolius, an Epimedium among Carya leaves. There are still C. speciosus flowering.

[Joakim B]

Nice Autumn photos
I was surprised when I during a lunch work saw a flowering plant and looking closer it looked like something from the malveaceae
Not something I would expect to see in full flower in end of October even if there had been light frost some days earlier
There was an other plant on the other side of the road.
Is this a different one than the normal summer one we have?

[ian mcdonald]

Joakim, could you get a close up picture of the flowers and leaves?

[ashley]

... something from the malveaceae ...

Malva moschata?

[ian mcdonald]

Thats what I thought Ashley but the leaves look a bit broad.

[Joakim B]

I will try to get a better photo tomorrow of the leaves