October 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Tim Ingram]

Betula avec Parthenocissus in our front garden today. The Pampas Grass is also stunning at the moment, planted around 40 years ago when the house was built - probably 'Sunningdale Silver' - and the yellow colouring tree behind the birch is Gleditsia triacanthos 'Sunburst', the Honey Locust from the USA. In the foreground Grevillea rosmarinifolia 'Williamsi', an amazing Australian shrub rarely without flowers all year long.

[meanie]

meanie,

Is that the pink and white form of Salvia leucantha or the all pink form? Hard for me to tell as it seems like the flowers are not 100%  open. We have both around here (at least in the Sacramento Valley, California, where they are cold hardy).

They bloom all winter in the Sacramento Valley, too. Get big!

Anyway, looks great!

It is the pink and white form. To be honest it is more about the calyces here as the flowers are rather small and insignificant (the one that you can see is about as open as they get) when grown outdoors or in an unheated greenhouse. I have a form called "Purple Velvet" coming along from seed (it is supposedly fairly reliably true from seed) which flowers about a month earlier and has bigger flowers. It is also the only form which will reliably set seed here.

[ian mcdonald]

Not in the garden but this picture is of October colour, img 1000839. Also still in flower this month, the recently discussed sheeps bit scabious, J. montana. img 1000796.

[Gabriela]

Just a couple of pictures taken in preparation of today’s gusty, drenching storm; it was a good idea...
Polygonatum x hybridum, Viburnum dentatum & Yucca.


And my favourite Hydrangea, the North American  H. quercifolia (the dwarf 'Munchkin' here).

[Maggi Young]

Lovely fall colour, Gabriela. Sorry to hear bad weather has hit you. 
Damp, very grey  day here and  yet 3 o'clock in the afternoon here and so dark already. Luckily not very stormy.