What's Looking Good in September ....

Yes, pete, Lantana are fascinating but must say I'm not so keen on the spikey stems ... even if I put gloves on I get tiny cuts on my arms as I'm cutting the hedge. They also are a wee bit ungainly and go in all directions even with regular (weekly) trimming.

I have the one pictured above, a white one and a yellow one.

Another great thing is they attract bees and butterflies. Now I have the new lenses, maybe I'll be able to capture the two flying critters I couldn't previously.

 

This one could be Frutescens, not sure. the flowers hardly open, may be pollenated by long billed sun birds or something to get in the narrow openning. The bladders are getting bigger. It might compete with the Colutea.

 

Sorry, strongy, what is a Frutescans? Mine? All my flowers will open.

Was talking to Sis earlier (for only two hours) and she said the flying critter I'm trying to capture is a Hawk Moth Hummingbird ... and I probably got that wrong ... Sis ?????????

We don't know what the second thing I'm trying to capture is ... time and camera will tell ... :eek:

 

Its the sutherlandii LoL.

 

Sorry LoL, mixed posts, I was saying that the Sutherlandia might be S. Frutescens, nothing do do with any of you plants. :rolleyes:

 

Musa sikkimiensis flower,


Bristlecone pine, reputed to be the oldest living thing on the planet, (not this one)


Dwarf pomegranate,


Eucomis, I think this is autumnalis,



Cyclamen are doing well and early this year,

 

Esta bem ... crossed conversations as we often have here ...

 

Caesalpinia is doing well now the weathers dryer,





The cycas revoluta is coming along still,


Agave americana,



Enset maurelii,


And the good old castor oil plant flowers, I know I shouldn't grow it, but I like to live dangerously.

 

Lovely pictures, pete.

I thought wrongly Olive was the oldest ... no, I read something recently ... pine is not registering ...

Love the dwarf Pomegranate ... like yours, they are lovely little shrubs here ... had some in my Country Life visit to Silves a few months ago when I was escaping the builders ... well done you, again!

My Cyclamen have come back again with a vengeance now which is odd here without all your lovely rain ...

 

Hummingbird Hawk Moth Sis.

Pete, brilliant shots so the banana and pine! I think our Botanical Garden had one given to them recently, we still haven't gotten there to look. It looks like the Cyclamen are growing out of the aloe!

 

After all the summer rain it is getting supprisingly dry here now, but I'm not complaining. It gives everything chance to ripen off before the long cold winter, (or long wet winter).
The only thing we can be sure of is, it will be LONG.

 

A banana or a pine kedi?
Well spotted on the aloe.

 

Actually LoL there is a theory that the creosote bush may actually be the oldest living thing but even the "experts" cant really agree.

 

Thanks, Sis, thought I got it backwards ...

No, that's not the creaosote bush, pete ... this one I'll really have to investigate ...

Don't envy you with your winter ...

 

pete, you said yourself that it is the flower of a banana plant. And it does look like a pine to me. Or have I got something wrong somewhere???