November 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Irm]

Today its the first day in November, and here ist a wrong plant for this month     The German name is "Oktoberle". The ..le means "small/little"   

Here comes the little October in November: Saxifraga cortusifolia "Kanna".

[Maggi Young]

Oh, good pink. Better in November than not at all!  These plants do not do very well here in our garden - I'm not sure why.

[Irm]

Crocus mathewii

[David Nicholson]

Oh, good pink. Better in November than not at all!  These plants do not do very well here in our garden - I'm not sure why.

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In the UK most of these seem to be under the heading of Saxifraga fortunei whereas in Europe they seem to be in S. cortusifolia. I bought a selection of pinks and whites from Edrom earlier this year and they are doing really well in a North facing bed. A couple of not very good pictures of two of the pinks about two weeks ago in the Saxifraga thread and tomorrow, if the weather is reasonable I'll have a few more.

[Steve Garvie]

The first of November and yet today was a cracking day in West Fife with clear blue skies and a temperature of 16C. In the early afternoon it was warmer than many of the days we endured in July.
I had a few butterflies in the garden along with a very late Common Darter. Some of my wife's Salvias were still flowering as is Lobelia tupa -a spike of which is nearly 8 feet tall (as we are yet to experience a frost this autumn).

[David Nicholson]

This little chap is well-travelled, it  came to me from Matt in Benbecula, via Grantown on Spey, via Inverness Airport, via Bristol Airport and eventually to a trough in my garden. Many thanks Matt.

Ranunculus alpestris

[Matt T]

Excellent! It's looking well, David.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Glorious warm sunny day here today. Clematis cirrhosa looking good, Camellia sasanqua just beginning to flower, Acers giving autumn colour.

[Jupiter]

Steve it's amazing to me that you have Lobelia tupa flowering there and I have it flowering here... on the other side of the World (almost). i guess it has a very long flowering period? I have some spikes just developing and others in full bloom. Did yours start in late spring too? Or is it later in your cooler climate?

[David Nicholson]

Glorious warm sunny day here today. Clematis cirrhosa looking good, Camellia sasanqua just beginning to flower, Acers giving autumn colour.

Your garden must look a treat Ralph.

[Steve Garvie]

Steve it's amazing to me that you have Lobelia tupa flowering there and I have it flowering here... on the other side of the World (almost). i guess it has a very long flowering period? I have some spikes just developing and others in full bloom. Did yours start in late spring too? Or is it later in your cooler climate?

Jamus, the Lobelia doesn't appear until June here and usually continues in growth until the first frosts which this year are yet to happen. Flowers are generally evident from early August onward.

[Jupiter]

Ahh thta explains it. It behaves very differently here in South Australia. It's up and growing in the very early spring and is flowering before summer starts; but having said that, our October is probably roughly equivalent to your June!

[johnw]

What an autumn!

johnw

[David Nicholson]

Lovely John, looking good here too this year. We had a run up the Exe Valley the other day finishing up at Minehead, it was beautiful.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Your garden must look a treat Ralph.

It does...but I'm only showing you the good bits!