What's looking good in October 2015

I realise that I didn't post photos in October. I was too busy to take many













Our Naga chillies have done well. I've sold 12 plants in the last fortnight and I already have orders for new ones next year. I've made about £100 for the charity with them this month.

 

It was still the day of Halloween when I took these photos.

This was just a simple table arrangement for guests at lunch. Everything from the garden.


The cones are just on the verge of opening



These are all part of our new bed.





I love the way the flowers of the zebra grass are a beautiful zig zag. They're less than a year old!



Other grasses are still looking good and the penstemons seem to have taken on a new lease of life







This is Katsura's first Autumn and he's doing well






A couple of our newly planted winter baskets.

 

Thanks @Sheal

It was still October - the 31st

A lot of the garden has been put to bed for the winter but some of it is fighting back. There are a number of Spring and Summer plants that are re-flowering, such as cowslips, lychnis and campanula. Cyclamen are flowering for the third time this year and I noticed that an area where I planted a load of garlic, that I missed digging up because they were hidden by hundreds of self-seeded shoofly plants, has got the garlic sprouting up to 6" already.

 

The schizostylis I bought from Poets Cottage Nursery in North Yorkshire a couple of years ago is flowering quite nicely.




Dahlias are still flowering



Plus, because of this crazy out of season mild weather, my rose "Madame Alfred Carriere" has started to flower again

 

Yes,..........the weather has gone crazy and the plants are getting confused, Anthony!!
I've got Clematis Armandii flowering in the Acer Brilliantissimum [and that should really only in the Spring], Cosmos, Japanese Anemones, Phlox, Primula, Antirrhinum, Cambrian Poppies, Mallow, and a few others are still flowering strongly in the borders My roses "Masquerade, Trumpeter, Crazy for you, and White Skyliner are also flowering but, in truth, they usually flower up to Christmas anyway.

 

Thanks, Anthony, what would I do without you to keep me awake. It's been moved to November, [this year], in it's proper place.

 

That's fair, because I have to do the same for you