What's Looking Good In October 2020

I have always had a great love for trees, so it has pleased me so much looking out of my sitting room window at the park opposite.

I think I commented on the abundance of berries on the Ilex, there is a good selection. Also a Arbutus unedo. Sadly some time ago, a family moved in locally, with several children, who lacked parental control. A large bough was damaged due to the kids climbing and swinging etc. I ended up contacting the council, and soon the damage was dealt with. However this left a very large area of bareness. Thankfully now, a mass of new growth has sprung up. The tree is covered in flowers and already masses of fruits. I will have to have a go at posting some piccies.

 

It's a shame the tree was damaged @Mike Allen but children do play on trees. I used to do it too, we had trees at the bottom of our garden.
There was an Oak tree on the banks of a canal near where I grew up and the local kids had a rope hanging from one of the branches, and we could swing out over the canal ....
until one day it broke and two boys ended up in the water and the 'grown ups' made us take the rope down

I'm glad the tree in your park is recovering and has lots of new branches and flowers, maybe the kids will leave it alone now.

 

Symphyotrichum nova-angliae "Andenken am Alma Potschke" still an aster whatever the taxonomists say.


Mirabalis jalapa self seeded from a larger one. Been coming back every year for the past few years.


Crocus pulchellus The first of my autumn crocuses, potted and in the greenhouse until it bulks up a bit.

 

Still lots going on.



Sunshine on a rainy day
Too nice to pull up
Lobelia
Coronilla
Scruffy Double Jap Anemone (Perfectly imperfect)
Berry Nice Wet and Bedraggled James Ritchie Michaelmas Daisy​

 

Yesterday afternoon as sun lowering the naked view ...

L-R, cut back Bougainvillea, cut back Oleander, massacred Jacaranda showing new shoots after a month, Callistemon, Melaleuca (top right peeking), below in concrete pot Thevetia peruviana and Strelitzia nicholai ....



Jacaranda coming back into life ... that's more Melaleuca around the tree ...



Strelitzia regina today ...

 

Strawberry tree

Second flowering on bottle brush.

Can never remember this one.

Aeonium.

 

@pete fascicularia bicolor. Mine is flowering now too

 

I was waiting for you to come along.

 

Aster Monch with R.goldstrum one of my favourite combo's

Jack Black

Actea james compton and helianthus lemon queen

Geranium Ann folkard it really hasn't stop from since it started around mid/late May got a bit to big there so another plant to move probably just further back in the border

Red labyrinth

finally some flowers on Canna Durban

 

My new Hibiscus 'Petit Sunrise' potted up in old china sink ...

 

They look really nice together, you have such a good eye for colour combinations, Perki! My Aster 'Monch' is flowering well but looking extremely leggy in a pot, I watched a YouTube video where the grower said it performs poorly in a pot but does better and looks much fuller in the ground, will have to try that.

BTW, what's that in the background, Eupatorium cannabinum?

Nick

 

Not sure on growing aster monch in a pot but they can get a tad straggly in the ground , best to give them a gentle chelsea chop to bush them out. It is a Eupatorium but one of the Maculateum group - Purple Bush - its a excellent variety has multiple side shoots unlike some and the wildlife go crazy for it.

 

@Perki Thanks very much for the advice, tried growing E. dubium 'Baby Joe' in a pot but it just died! I love the sound of 'Purple Bush', similar to cannabinum in height but much bushier, will certainly give that one a go! Haven't had much joy with the cannabinum (or even buddleias) and visits from butterflies this year but there's always next Summer!

Nick