October 2010 in the Northern Hemisphere

[JPB]

Paddy, did you ever try Arbutus unedo in a large pot? I don't find it difficult at all....

[pehe]

Some autumn pics.

1. Colchicum, sorbus, arum, tropaeolum
2. Some berries
3. Eucomis bicolor seedpods
4. Nerine sarniensis
5. Colchicum speciosus Album and Col. Waterlilly
6. Col. speciosus Album and Crocus nudiflorus
7. A peculiar 'Blackbird'
And some nice surprises:
8. Galathus Reginae Olgae self seeded
9. Narcissus elegans. Only a single flower - nothing compared to Gerd's impressive autumnflowering narcissus - but it is my very first.

Poul

[Rob]

I went to Bath, Somerset earlier in the week & thought this lion was one of the best formal park plantings that I've ever seen.

[TheOnionMan]

What is the Lion's body and pedestal made out of?  Looks like balls of blue cheese?

[Paddy Tobin]

Paddy, did you ever try Arbutus unedo in a large pot? I don't find it difficult at all....

Hans, no, I have never even thought of planting it in a pot and it is something for me to consider. Paddy

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Poul, your Autumn seems to be very colourful !! 

We had two glorious days with temperatures reaching 22°C and full sun all day - I like an October like this... 

Here's some from my garden over the last few days :

1 and 2 : Sternbergia sicula 'Dodona Gold' - what a giant   Sending up 2 flowers from 1 bulb.  Thanks Poul !
3 and 4 : Gentiana scabra "Zuiko Rindo"
5 : Helleborus orientalis seems to be mixed up with its calander... 
6 : Oxalis enneaphylla - Dark eye - seems to have the same problem !
7 : newly planted young Cyclamen hederifolium

[annew]

Great lion - I love the mane! The balls of blue cheese might be echeverias.
Luc, what a pretty pink gentian.

[pehe]

Poul, your Autumn seems to be very colourful !! 

We had two glorious days with temperatures reaching 22°C and full sun all day - I like an October like this... 

Here's some from my garden over the last few days :

1 and 2 : Sternbergia sicula 'Dodona Gold' - what a giant   Sending up 2 flowers from 1 bulb.  Thanks Poul !
3 and 4 : Gentiana scabra "Zuiko Rindo"
5 : Helleborus orientalis seems to be mixed up with its calander... 
6 : Oxalis enneaphylla - Dark eye - seems to have the same problem !
7 : newly planted young Cyclamen hederifolium

Thank you Luc!
October weather is also sunny in Denmark and my flowers and I likes it too.
I am glad that your Dodona Gold performs well, this clone is very floriferious. Your bulbs is from this clump:

1. Sternbergia sicula 'Dodona Gold'
2. I have this Crocus pallasii thanks too Dima. Flowering for the first time this year.
3. Another first time flowering is this cyclamen mirabilis. I got seeds from Hans J. last year and it is flowering this year!

It is nice to have good SRGC friends 

Poul

[TheOnionMan]

We had two glorious days with temperatures reaching 22°C and full sun all day - I like an October like this... 
Here's some from my garden over the last few days :

3 and 4 : Gentiana scabra "Zuiko Rindo"

Luc, I attended a meeting of the Berkshire Chapter of NARGS today, and the speaker from Broken Arrow Nursery in Connecticut brought a number of plants to show and tell with (and ultimately for purchase), and he had a very large pot of this Gentiana scabra cultivar; must have been 18" across (45 cm) or more, and with hundreds of blooms, a spectacular cultivar to be sure.

[YT]

Hi, all Thalictrum grandiflorum white flower form is now blooming in a pot. I really love this pristine flowers swinging on their slender stems.

[cohan]

Hi, all Thalictrum grandiflorum white flower form is now blooming in a pot. I really love this pristine flowers swinging on their slender stems.

very beautiful!

[Gail]

Very pretty YT.  How big is the flower in grandiflorum?

[angie]

Really lovely flower and picture, thanks YT for sharing.

Angie

[YT]

Thank you, cohan! Your pictures of Canadian native alpines are interesting!

Gail, the flower of my Thalictrum grandiflorum is 38-40mm in diameter (from tip to tip) and the plant is less than 30cm tall.

Thank you, Angie! It's the first time to see this beautiful flower at my bench and decided sharing this.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

We had two glorious days with temperatures reaching 22°C and full sun all day - I like an October like this... 
Here's some from my garden over the last few days :

3 and 4 : Gentiana scabra "Zuiko Rindo"

Luc, I attended a meeting of the Berkshire Chapter of NARGS today, and the speaker from Broken Arrow Nursery in Connecticut brought a number of plants to show and tell with (and ultimately for purchase), and he had a very large pot of this Gentiana scabra cultivar; must have been 18" across (45 cm) or more, and with hundreds of blooms, a spectacular cultivar to be sure.

Thanks for the info Mc Mark !  Sounds very promising.
Mine is a young plant, purchased last spring.