September 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere

[meanie]

Utricularia sandersonii -a tiny wee lithophytic Bladderwort from damp rocks in northern KwaZulu-Natal to Transkei.
It likes cool growing conditions but needs frost protection -much like Pleione.

I thought that I had congratulated you on this shot but clearly something went wrong - fantastic photo sir!

Anyway, a few things.
Hedychium gardnerianum.....................


One of three seed grown Abutilon x hybridum. Six months to bloom and they're all good colours, but this is my favourite.............


Kniphofia "Green Jade"..................


I'm still completely smitten with Salvia urica..................


Salvia transylvanica.................


Albuca humilis is back in bloom..................


Tricyrtis "Tojen"..............


And finally, Tricyrtis "White Towers"...................

[johnw]

A cracker Brian.  Nice to see this firey colour when most in that colour range have passed.  For more we must await the autumn foliage fire.

john

[fermi de Sousa]

Spectacular, Brian!
Lucky you,
cheers
fermi

[Robert]

I like "meadow" plants in the garden and the Asters are looking good now.



However, I now prefer our wild native Asters. This A. occidentalis has been blooming for over a month now and is still going strong.



Colchicums looking good too.



Another native I wouldn't be without is Epilobium canum, etc. along these lines. Months of color in the late season. Isn't bothered by drought or 38 c plus summer, fall temperatures. As we are now getting a late season blast of heat (38c)!



Nothing exotic, just the simple beauty of yellow sunflowers.

[meanie]

Lovely Epilobium Robert!

Here is the only flower to escape the slugs on my Tricyrtis macropoda..................

[Robert]

Lovely Epilobium Robert!

Thanks! I agree they are very nice, and especially appreciated in our hot, dry climate.



A lime green Nicotinia - nothing exciting. This was a chance seedling that is quite dwarf, and well branched with many flowers - a very handsome plant. I never grow the dwarf bedding type Nicotinia    - so where this plant came from I have no idea. I'll save the seed and see what happens.

[meanie]

A lime green Nicotinia - nothing exciting. This was a chance seedling that is quite dwarf, and well branched with many flowers - a very handsome plant. I never grow the dwarf bedding type Nicotinia    - so where this plant came from I have no idea. I'll save the seed and see what happens.

Looks like N.langsdorfii. Like you I dislike the bedding Nicotiana but I grow this cracking wee plant too. By grow I mean that I grew it once and it is now a reliable self seeder. With its slender build and lime flowers it can grow just about anywhere without jarring the eye. Like N.sylvestris it is easily weeded out where not wanted or too dense.
I also grow N.glauca which I believe is considered an invasive weed in parts of California.

I had a deformed flower on my Datura wrightii yesterday!

[Steve Garvie]

Anemone obtusiloba "Pradesh" has been flowering in a raised peat bed all summer and still continues to flower.

[Natalia]

Blooming seedlings of interesting aquatic plant - Monochoria korsakowii  from the Far East

[Robert]

Looks like N.langsdorfii. Like you I dislike the bedding Nicotiana but I grow this cracking wee plant too. By grow I mean that I grew it once and it is now a reliable self seeder. With its slender build and lime flowers it can grow just about anywhere without jarring the eye. Like N.sylvestris it is easily weeded out where not wanted or too dense.

I have grown Nicotinia langsdorfii in the past. I like it. This plant is very different - the flowers are much larger and of different proportions. The foliage and plant habit is much different too. I know, all of this is difficult to discern from the photograph! Like you, I enjoy growing Nicotinias and letting them seed about as they wish - removing the one I don't want.

[meanie]

I have grown Nicotinia langsdorfii in the past. I like it. This plant is very different - the flowers are much larger and of different proportions. The foliage and plant habit is much different too. I know, all of this is difficult to discern from the photograph! Like you, I enjoy growing Nicotinias and letting them seed about as they wish - removing the one I don't want.

Ah..........Could be a nice addition then.

Anemone obtusiloba "Pradesh" has been flowering in a raised peat bed all summer and still continues to flower.

That is rather special!


I popped into OBG yesterday and was rather smitten by this Oxypetalum coeruleum................

[Steve Garvie]

Nice image!!!
A beautiful colour combination!

[Robert]

Ah..........Could be a nice addition then.

Whatever happens with the F2's (Nicotinia lime-green hybrid) it will be interesting and fun for me. 

[meanie]

I moved Tricyrtis ishiiana this year and it has struggled.Still, it's nice to have a few blooms...............




Acnistus (Iochroma) australis are starting to bloom again...............

[ChrisB]

Hi Meanie, that looks a lot like a plant I've grown but mine was called Tweedia.  Is it a name change or just another member of the same family?