Flowers and foliage October 2008

[Maggi Young]

Were you aware that there was a 'special edition' of Curtis's Botanical Magazine earlier this year dedicated to Biarum.
I expect you could order a back copy from Wiley-Blackwell publishing. It was Volume 25 part 1. (Feb 2008).

Giles

I have the copy of this Biarum monograph in my hot little hands, courtesy of Giles.... it is certainly most interesting..... however, I discover that one need not buy a copy... the whole issue is available online in four pdf files, here: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119416936/issue      easy to download and  a free sample!!

 Home web page of publishers Wiley-Blackwell is this: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/home .... a source of all sorts of useful stuff, methinks!
 

Many thanks for your kind loan, Giles, I'll get it back to you as soon as possible! 
 

[Pete Clarke]

Colletia hystrix - nice, vivid flowers but small, on a very spiky plant - like gorse.
Fascicularia bicolor starting to colour up & flower.

[Maggi Young]

The colours of the Colletia and Fascicularia are good together. Rich reds are so sumptuous at this time of year.  Pity about the Colletia being so thorny, though!

[Ian Y]

We are very sorry that the forum was down for most of today due to a data base error Fred has now fixed it and we will endeavour to prevent it happening again.

Now we can get our forum fix.

[mark smyth]

Hagen is that your garden?

Pete how do you get your Oxalis to grow to big?


Edit by Maggi: refers to posts on page one of this thread!

[mark smyth]

Luit is that a special form of Helianthus salicifolius? Mine has never flowered

[Lvandelft]

Luit is that a special form of Helianthus salicifolius? Mine has never flowered

Mark I have never seen a Hel. salicifolium which is not flowering in Holland.
Yours must be a very bad clone.

[Kenneth K]

Helianthus salicifolius is very late flowering. In our climate it is about three out of ten years that it flowers depending on the weather in autumn. Last year and the year before that we had very warm autumns and it flowered. This year is not so warm so I doubt if it is going to flower. However it is a very attractive plant even without flowers.

[PaulM]

In February I sowed seeds of Eryngium leavenworthii, and they are putting on a nice display now, about a month later than usual due to the wet and cool summer we've had here in Scandinavia. The flowers start out green and then gradually shift to a deep saturated purple. I wonder if they keep their color if cut and dried?

[Maggi Young]

Not a species I have grown, Paul... but I'll look for seed of it now... very smart colours there. Not sure about how well that colour will preserve when dried ... could not hurt to try it, I reckon!

[Paddy Tobin]

Paul,

That was a great return from your seed, sown in February and in such good flower by October and what a great colour. Well done!
Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

Cypripedium 'Emil' has been sitting in a large black patio pot in full sun all summer, so as her indoors needed the pot I tipped it out and washed it. Still not plucked up the courage to split it, so it went into a prepared hole in its entirety.

[Anthony Darby]

Here is Gentiana 'Zuiko-rindo' flowering today.

[shelagh]

I have just a few late flowering gems to add to the October list, although the Colchicums have already succumbed to the weather.

Colchicum kotschyi
Crocus zonatus
Cyclamen cilicium
Cyc. cilicium leaf pattern detail
Kalma latifolia
Oxalis massoniana
Saxifraga fortunei 'Pink Haze'

[johnw]

Another bit of autumn colour at friends' garden near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia.

johnw  -  +8c here and damn chilly.