Still looking good in October

Apart from some pretty gusty breezes and a few showers, not a bad start to the month. This is a standard trained Abutilon 'Souvenir de Bonne' I grew from a small cutting and is now about 8 feet tall. The soft orange red flowers never really make a big show, but I like its leaves and the way the flowers create subtle splashes of colour amongst them...



and a bit closer....



And just coming into their best a clump of a particularly well-coloured from of Nerine bowdenii:

 

Not s o tame Nasturtium.

 

and i think it was Hornbeam said the soil loves them.

 

Thats an impressive Abutilon DaveP.
Up in't north there is still some colour left



and Aster Little Carlow always gives a good show

 

What an impressive show Peter S!

my favourite flower of all time!

 

Thanks Eleagnus7. Its interesting how many sources seem to quote the same Aster names as their favorites - A Little Carlow, A Fricatii Monch, A Violet Queen and A Alma Potschke (which I must get).

 

Most David Austin roses still blooming well. Nasturtiums, chrysanths, dahlias, Jap. Anemones, fuchsias, begonias, busy lizzies, marigolds, sedums etc etc all doing well and will continue until we get the first frosts. Then all will be black ruin!

Our gardening will really change if climate change means no more frosts. We too will be able to have a Tresco type garden, but there will be losses too.

 

It's all looking lovely everyone! Yes, a very impressive Abutilon, DaveP! I love the leaves ... a real wow factor!

Elaine, is that a pink Nasturtium?

PeterS, on the long shot, the clump of Asters really shows up wonderfully! Now I can picture where you have everything!

 

Great looking Autumn garden Peter S. Mine looks a bit sorrier as the spread of flowering perennials is not so good for this time of the year. Best is Aconitum and Dahlias plus the end of the Rudbeckia and Salvias.

Must try the Asters again - have never succeeded without the onset of the dreaded mildew.

 

Conophytum Wetsteinii, at least I think so, one of the so called living stones, that look pretty boring for 11 and a half month of the year.

 

Lovely to see so much still colouring the gardens - great pics everyone!

 

Pete - your Conophytum looks fantastic.
Chobart - I think that some Asters are more susceptable to mildew than others. A novae-belgii and A dumosis (dwarf A novae-belgii) are particularly bad. I never have mildew with A fricatii Wunder von Staffa or Monch, which flowered for an average of 15 weeks over the last two years. And no mildew with A amellus: Violet Queen is a lovely dark shade and is often quoted as the best. It flowers for 7 or 8 weeks.



Aster Violet Queen - today

 

More great pictures...Elaine where did that pink nasturtium come from? Both are lovely, but I didn't know that pink existed.