October 2013 in the northern hemisphere

[johnralphcarpenter]

Camellia sasanqua 'Maiden's Blush'

[David Nicholson]

Nice early Camellia there Ralph, maybe a little earlier that some of the Cornish Camellias but I haven't been down to look yet.

[Maggi Young]

Camellia sasanqua 'Maiden's Blush'

How lovely!
Ralph I'm beginning to think your garden is not simply "in" Kent but must, with the wonderful range of plants you show us, be "all of Kent" !!

[johnralphcarpenter]

How lovely!
Ralph I'm beginning to think your garden is not simply "in" Kent but must, with the wonderful range of plants you show us, be "all of Kent" !!

You're so kind! I am lucky to have a south facing garden just south of the Greensand Ridge in one of the sunniest locations in the UK, so kind of Mediterraneanish, apart from the clay soil. And I buy too many plants, my wife will tell you.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Euonymus alatus putting on a good show.

[ruweiss]

Now flowering in garden and alpine house:

[David Nicholson]

Not the best picture in the world but an extremely good value plant-Tulbaghia 'Purple Eye'

Bought at Cornwall Spring Flower Show on 6 April last (from Julian and Sarah Sutton's Desireable Plants ) in full flower and it has remained in full flower ever since. It's a T cominsii x T. violacea hybrid raised by Devon grower Dick Fulcher. If you see it around give it a go.

[Tim Ingram]

A couple of plants in flower with us at the moment - Zauschneria 'Olbrich Silver', flowering better than it ever has before in a new spot in the garden, and a superb and under-rated form of Potentilla fruticosa, 'Beesii', which has beautiful silvery-silky leaves.

[Maggi Young]

Rain just starting again here so good to have cheering pix from other gardens!

Zauschneria 'Olbrich Silver' is very showy -  overall size? Hardy?

[Margaret]

Flowering today:
Euphorbia Frosted Diamond, Salvia Amistad, Persicaria campanulata alba flat on the ground (does anyone know the name of the yellow flowered, tender grass in the picture?) and  meconopsis foliage looking good.

I don't know how to get the plant names under the picture. Can anyone help please?

[johnralphcarpenter]

does anyone know the name of the yellow flowered, tender grass in the picture?

Looks like Melasphaerula graminea, a cormous perennial in the Iridacaea, not a grass at all.

[Maggi Young]

Lovely selection, Margaret.

 To learn about getting the names under the pictures etc - see here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=65.msg266604#msg266604

[Margaret]

Ralph, that's it. Thank you very much.

Maggi, thank you for the link. I couldn't get it to work and had to ask my husband how to get the name on the picture.  After a lot of grumbling from him about the muddled state of my computer he showed me how to locate on disc.  Below is a test!

[Maggi Young]

Happy to help Margaret.

 You have got the name in the file title of the photo - but it is better for the search facility to be able to find the photo by having the name in the text of the  post .... you can do that and just have a photo file that is a number by   typing the name .... 

 Strobilanthes atropurpureus
 **** {attach=1}
 then choosing the  option of either inline  full size or inline thumbnail  image from the drop down options and a tag will appear  where your curser was - shown above  by the ***{attach=1}  (except that the tag uses the square brackets [  ) - and that is where you photo will appear.


 

[François Lambert]

It's the second year these flower for me : Hedychium Gardnerianum.  As the plants get bigger & stronger each year, so do the flowers, and as an added bonus the plant flowers almost a month earlier than last year.  Very fragrant flowers, in particular in the evening where you can smell these from a distance of more than 5 meters - not bad with just one inflorescence blooming right now.  These plants seem to have wintergrowing properties because right now I see new shoots popping up.  Unfortunately in a month or so they are moved to my cellar for a dark winter storage and all shoots will wither.  Not sure I want to take the risk of keeping them in the unheated greenhouse for the winter, at least not as long as I don't have a second one to keep in a safer place over the winter.