Whats Looking Good In October

Hardy Fuchsia 'Phyllis' ...



Primulas in a pot ...



Veronica still blooming (I'm waiting patiently to cut it back !)



Hardy Fuchsia Mrs Popple
(and an old spoon ) ...



Hardy Fuchsia 'Margaret'



Echeveria 'Black Prince'...



Bright flowers of 'Black Prince' ...



Crassula ovata variegated ...



Crassula ovata and a strange reflection



Impatiens hawkeri

 

Lovely photos Michael. Love the Black Prince. Your reflection reminds me of my Dad ... he was a handsome man!

 

Perhaps not the most autumnal colour, but the doorstep delight Lewisia is firing a second round

Once the flowers die the pot will go under the table to keep it dry over the winter.

And then I have an empty spot to fill

 

Rosa "Lolabelle"

Tibouchina urvilleana


Fuchsia hatschbatchii

Cotoneaster salcifolius Rothschildianus bit of an odd one at the moment it can't decide if it's groundcover or not. Also yellow flowers and autumn flowers


Salvia guaranitica "Black and Blue" still going.


Salvia stolonifera

Salvia confertiflora


Camellia sasanqua "Narumigata" first flower on this autumn flowering camellia, scented; quite a bit earlier than in many years.

 

Mid October………The last hurrah.

 

Hedychium densiflorum seed head.

 

Ooo my densiflorum didn't produce any seed. That looks good

 

I usually run the flower head through my hand and then go to the next flower, I think it pollenates them, some years are better than others.
Got a few, less interesting looking, pods forming on "tara", if they ripen I might try sowing a few as I believe tara is a hybrid so could come up with something interesting.

 

Hedychium coronarium (at last).


My all-time favourite tree, Arbutus unedo Rubra


A Cuphea that was given up for dead earlier this year....

 

Love the hedychium @noisette47 ! I was lucky to even have my coronarium survive the winter. I have a nice bud on H.Luna Moth so it's a race against the weather...

 

Some of the terrace plants still soldiering on...