What's Looking Good In October 2013

Loved the Hydrangea. Want my bedroom walls that colour and a duvet of those flowers,
please,
Jenny

 

Still a fair few things in bloom here, although some of the foliage is looking decidedly second-hand.

Two different forms of T.hirta. I prefer the second one with smaller spots.................




Salvias that are still doing their stuff include;
Seed grown S.patens "Oxford Blue".......................


Salvia "Wendys Wish" is blooming well in the g/house and out in the bed too.................


Salvia confertiflora from a cutting.....................


A cousin of the Salvia family - Plectranthus argentatus........................


Lobelia tupa continues to throw up more (admittedly smaller) spikes.................

 

Solanum rantonnetii (or as the taxonomists now call it, Lycianthes rantonnetii) has grown from a wee cutting to this mass of blooms.......................


Sollya heterophylla will bloom right up to the first frosts.....................


Bomarea hirtella is still producing lots of new blooms...................


Aconitum carmichaelii "Arendsii".....................


Still loving the Impatiens balfourii.......................


And finally Fuchsia "Hawkshead".....................

 

I like the Solanum Longk!

 

I'll be doing some cuttings in the spring - remind me!

A couple more.

Got a small division of T.hirta "Kohaku" which has struggled, but it has at least given me one flower......................


Shame as I really like this one!


Digitalis "Illumination Pink" is probably not in the best spot, but I want it to get through the winter and this was the best compromise.....................


Impatiens niamniamensis and Salvia microphylla.....................

 

Longk......I'd like a cutting thank you. Will it survive in a sandy soil/coastal position please?

 

Stunning photos as usual Longk - love the fuchsia Hawkshead, it's so delicate.

 

One for a pot Sheal as it's tender. Cool greenhouse, shed or garage over the winter. My cutting came from one that had been trained as a standard which looked rather excellent despite my basic dislike of standards.

Thanks GA!
Me too - I think that it's the simplicity of it as I truly dislike "fussy" or "fat" Fuchsias.

 

Your photos are amazing Longk, may I ask are many of your plants under cover as they look flaming perfect?!! not troubled by rain wind etc. My garden is now a mess after 24 odd hours of heavy rain...gloom descending! Roll on Spring and yes please to a repeat of this year's weather up here in the not so frozen North!

 

Thanks!

The only one that was under cover is the Salvia "Wendys Wish", but the one in the main bed is just as good, just harder to get a decent shot of! I have some tattered foliage, and that last Tricyrtis does not look good apart from the one bloom, and one of my Lobelia tupa and an Acanthus spike are far from upright.

 

Shiney.....your pears look good enough to eat!

 

Marvelous pictures everyone....

Shiney....especially love the Miscanthus

 

A few things still looking good.
Veronica Spicata

Salvia Dysons Crimson, grew this one from the seed swap seeds in the spring,thanks to whoever put the seeds in , its only recently started flowering but the flowers aren't really opening fully maybe a bit late for it does anyone know if its totally hardy? do have a cutting in the greenhouse but if its not hardy I'll dig this one up to.


Fuchsia hardy one but the name escapes me

And while some things are finishing this is about to burst into bloom, the insects where swarming round it today waiting...
Mahonia 'Charity'