What's Looking Good in September ....

LOL, Strongylodon, Pete, and kryssy
everything is just beautiful,lovely plants to all of you

 

Kryssy, how cold does it get there in the winter?
Washys are not the hardiest of palms, mine loses a good few fronds in winter, we usually get about one or two nights of around minus 5C.
The advantage is that they very quickly regrow in summer.

 

Don't worry about me sharing LoL - I can type noisily if Mr LoL needs to use the facility in his office tree ensuite..

Pete, we have had minus 15 - but that was a fluke. We do get very cold here in winter as we are in the Massif Central but the winters are short. I have tried putting fleece on tender things but they have usually died. However, last winter was very mild and even my geraniums (pelagoniam type) survived in my window boxes along with a few petunias so I didn't have to replant them up this year. I've a feeling this winter is going to be severe though. The nights are getting quite chilly and there was a brisk easterly blowing today straight from the Alps - brrrrrrr

 

I have to back up here a bit folk on a couple of items.

Washys ... do they grow big enough to have their grass skirts in England? ... probably a dumb question from a dumb strawberry blonde! :D

pete, I wasn't talking about the Vinca ... which I promptly killed off here. It was the pink thing behind it ... looks like a mini single Oleander or something?

You'd have to type VERY LOUD kryssy!

 

Dont think a washy would like that kind of cold kryssy.
I also had begonias survive the winter outside last year, but thats not normal here either.
I hope your wrong about the coming winter. :D

 

Right LoL, left to right, lantana, red oleander, bouganvillea, lower down vinca and cuphea.
I've never seen a fully grown washy here LoL, but them I dont get out much.
Not sure they have been grown that long over here in the open, not even in the SW.
But I'm sure someone will know.

 

Thanks pete, I thought it was Oleander ... not as red as ours which I'd love. I only have two double pinks because one is an offshoot cutting of the other. Think the roots are too well bedded to dig up and replace with the red.

From the lineup sounds like you're talking about my garden. Surprisingly ... ALL mine are in the ground, barring the Vincas I gave up on, which are too much like Busy Lizzies and Petunias here. :D Strangely, they grow these plants in the roundabouts and other floral places but I can't grow them for love nor money. :confused:

 

I was surprised today with a set of lenses for my old Kodak DC4800 Zoom camera. There's a telephoto lens, a 0.6x wide angle lens and +7 and +10 (which can be used together for a +17) close-up lenses. So I'm practising here with the +7 ...

Oranges and Lemons Rosebud ...



Tecomaria ...



Lantana ...



Fuchsia ...



It's pretty hard work with all these bits now as I can barely operate the camera on its own. :rolleyes:

 

Just snapped this Begonia argenteo-guttata (Cane Trout Begonia) still using the +7 ...

 

Walter Trout still looking good LoL.

Thought you might be interested in this, the Sesbanias are now three feet high and I noticed one had flower buds on a side branch.

Also a similar plant (seed courtesy of PeteS).
Sutherlandia Microphylla. I have never grown it before and kept it under glass.

 

Wonderful close-ups Sis, very well done! Now you can go out and catch some bugs to put in the What's buzzing .... thread too. You should get some excellent shots with the new lenses. Good Luck!

Strongy - I am jealous of you again! My Sesbanias look nice - well, they did until I saw yours with buds even! I must admit that they are all still crowded in the one pot.

 

You remembered Walter, strongy.

Three foot high ... I can't go off you any more for goodness sake :rolleyes: ... and flowerbuds to boot! I've still only got my one but it's holding it's own in a small kind of way! Looking forward to seeing yours in flower.

I don't know this plant from PeterS so will have to look it up.

 

I remember listening to a Walter Trout Band tape about 12 years ago too.
Will put a pic up when they open. It is only one small bud cluster on one plant(so far).

 

We went to see him at The Stables in Milton Keynes in October 2001 just a week before we moved here. Walter dedicated a couple of songs to our friend who "introduced" him to us who had died the previous year aged 53. It was quite special as he welcomed me and Mr LoL to the audience. Met him after the show ... nice guy!

 

i used to grow sutherlandii strongy, but I think it was frutescens, and I once managed to get seed of montana, which was considered hardyish at the time.
Yours looks good though, just showing the inflated seed pods.
Sesabania has done really well.

LoL, the lantanas are great the way the flowers change in colour as they age, arn't they?