What's Looking Good November 2024

Grown from seed this year we got the mixed colours ‘Cobea’ , cup and saucer for a change only planted them up late May . 2 in a 10litre pot climbing up a homemade trellis waiting and waiting for the flowers to open .

 

Quick shoot in between the last mow of the season and the rain starting.


Lonicera purpusii 'Winter Beauty' - the first flower of the season






Anthemis tinctoria 'E.C. Buxton' - the very last flower of the season






Helenium 'Mardi Gras' - just begging to be photographed again






Anemone 'Honorine Jobert' - itchy finger again!

 

Thanks for the suggestions @Plantminded but I took very little top growth for cuttings - it's not usually that miffy! The second batch of cuttings I took after seeing the state of it have perked up decidedly in their pot, so I wondered if the suggestion of a local gardening friend was right - lack of water! My garden has a strange mix of shale and gravel subsoil (mine workings and steelworks) so I wondered if I was just unlucky and planted it over gravel. I've given it a good soak, so we'll see. Unlikely for where I live...

 

Its been surprisingly dry, I've had to top up my pond, any rain in the last three weeks has been really light and although its soaked the surface its not gone down any depth IMO.

If you have a really well drained spot I could well believe some plants could be dryish at the roots, my mud does tend to hold water once its soaked.

 

Correa glabra turnbullii

Callicarpa giraldii profusion

Christmas cactus One year it may flower at Christmas.

Jasminum nudiflorum starting to flower.

Crocus goulimyi leucantha

 

Bit damp so far this month so not got out in the garden as much as I'd like but still some bits I think are looking good.
Mexican fleabane still producing flowers:

Spirea shrub that has a nice habit of showing a few small flowers at the same time as the leaves take on their Autumn colours:

Evergreen dogwood fruit is taking on a more red colour:

Persian ironwood still has its nice bright Autumn colours to its leaves next to a Caucasian Wingnut tree that is only starting to change leaf colour but is looking to be the widest tree in the garden with a width of more than 5metres and a height of less than three:

One of the Mahonias is already producing some nice flowers:


Also posted a video showing some more of what is in bloom last weekend here.
Happy gardening!

 

@Macraignil does that wingnut produce edible nuts? If so, the growth habit would be very convenient for picking!
@NigelJ is that correa hardy please?

 

Just read up on them a bit there and the nuts are supposed to be edible. The research also led me to the fact it is likely to be about another ten years before I would have the tree producing nuts and at full height it may reach as much as 30metres which probably would leave a lot of branches out of reach for me anyway. Might leave them for the squirrels.
All the best!

 

We have a few Wingnut trees in the park here, but although I've seen those long seed like wings hanging down I've never seen anything that looks remotely edible.
I must look again.

 

@CarolineL I honestly don't know, I got it from a garden in Cornwall in 2018 and so far it's been fine.
An Australian website says okay with moderate frost. Plants of the World says primarily "from a subtropical biome", so I'd say maybe down to -5°C.

 

We’ve had a few dry days here too, until today, that would explain it @CarolineL! Your soil sounds like it might dry out as quickly as mine which is sandy on sandstone .

 

I grew the white Cobea several years ago @Valleysgirl , and it took a while to germinate and get going, but was fairly impressive once it did. I've got to admit though - I actually preferred them when in bud rather than in flower! The seed heads were lovely too.
My Mahonia has been flowering for many weeks - it started slightly earlier than usual, but is absolutely covered in flowers. I should really take a pic

 

This Hebe in a pot outside ('Donna' I think it's called) has waited until November to flower. I seem to remember last year there were still flowers on it in late December.

 

Feijoa fruits are dropping off now.


Last of the Asimina fruits, I'm afraid I let most of them rot, they dont last long I find.

 

Are they edible?