What's Looking Good in September ....

The summer is very different here in that we don't have the colourful bedding plants most of you do, but we have a bit of colour ...

Cannas have a very long blooming period from Spring through Autumn ...



Verbena is also a perennial here and cutting it back frequently keeps it blooming (that's a Thevetia, Mexican Oleander) in the middle ...



One of my favourites just starting to bloom for the Autumn/Winter is Tecomaria (Cape Honeysuckle) ...

 

Looking good LoL.

I thought these were small 6in blades of grass last on the beach in Famagusta last august. On closer inspection I realised they were Washingtonia seedlings so I dug a few up. Here they are a year on.

 

It must be like getting a second spring, as the autumn comes on LOL.
You must have grown them right through the winter strongy, washys really are the fastest growing palm, that stands any chance in UK.
This is one of mine today, a few years older.
This was growing like grass, as you say, in a pot at a local G.C. at the base of a trachy.

 

Thanks strongy and pete.

Yes, me and my plants will be coming into their element soon ... Autumn/Winter/Spring and am I ever waiting for it.

Hey, strongy, you'll find places in all your lovely gardens and roundabouts for those Washingtonias ... and I'm so jealous of yours and pete's as mine is horrendous and I have to keep cutting off the fronds as they are so dried looking and yous guys ones look so fresh ... they obviously don't like Portugal very much ... :(

 

LOL, they certainly like California OK.
Are you irrigating them?

 

Well, here's mine ... and I water it daily ...

Sorry, I haven't got ground space ... you know about that :D

 

The Washys have been inside all the time. I have a larger one from a seed from Tenerife the year before. They seem to grow a lot of them in the Med as they are used to 'thatch' beach umbrellas.
I'll be seeing them in their natural habitat next year in the US.
LoL, waste them in the parks! later next year or the year after we will be looking for a bungalow with a decent size garden, then I can plant them all in the ground (well not ALL of them) twenty palms would be a bit too much.
I have a Sutherlandia coming into flower (seed from PeterS) will post a pic.

 

Sounds great, strongy ... didn't know you were moving. I really haven't gone ground space so mine does have to be in a pot. like other things. Difficult to explain and itt's too long to go into but has to do with "soak aways" etc which you may or may not know what I'm talking about?

 

That's looking wonderful, pete. You've got the colour Lantana t'other half wants me to integrate into my pale ones. What's the thing in front of it with the delicate pink flowers?

Everything looks so healthy ... can't stand that last flower and can't remember what it is, I wonder why? :eek:

Be gone a couple of hours doing Country Life, nice today.

 

The pink flowers right down the bottom are, http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/185/
Would do well with you.
The lantana is another old friend. :D

 

It has been interesting reading about the Washingtonia - I have one in a pot and it loses a leaf just before a new one appears. I think I will plant it in the garden as it seems to be OK in UK. Perhaps it will do better.

We had a mini tornado hit us on Wednesday and it did quite a lot of damage in the garden. I have spent today pulling up all the flattened plants but thankfully some still remain. Here are a few....


















That's all for the moment - more pulling and chucking tomorrow.

 

Thanks, pete, don't know that pink beauty and don't think it would like me.

kryssy, my sweet, you are in such a cooler climate and you have such wonderful flowers I am Soooooooooo jealous.

 

I don't know about a cooler climate LoL - we seem to be freezing our little cockles off here at night. We moved to France for better weather - what happened :confused: :confused: It has got so bad that Mr K has informed me today that my kitchen is to be put on hold so that he can finish off the central heating before winter. (We have been without heat for 4 years!) So, not only have I been without proper cooking facilities since June 1st but now I'm going to be cooking my Christmas Pud on the barbeque in a minus 15 snow storm. Does anyone want an extra guest come stay for a few months :D :D

 

It's 27 here now. We seem to hover at that temp for some reason and it felt a bit uncomfortable today as there was no breeze ... not aided by them doing the blasted orchard again! I escaped in Isabel and went off and about by myself.

Perhaps you should move a bit further south ... like to the Iberian Peninsula? I've got a new en-suite room but you'd have to share it with t'other half as it's his office as well.