September 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Paddy Tobin]

Chestnuts. Paddy

[Onion]

Аutumn mood...

Natalia,

do you know the name of the Berberis species ?

[Natalia]

Onion,
No, I do not know, but if you really need - ask .... photographed in the garden of my friends

[Onion]

Natalia,

not so important. But I like Berberis when they have a lot of berries for the birds.

[zephirine]

Maybe I can help you with the Berberis...It should be Berberis koreana (orange berries), or more probably the 'Red Tears' Cv/selection (red berries). A true beauty indeed! But a prickly beauty too!
Pictures of B. koreana taken at the Aubonne arboretum in Switzerland (between Geneva and Lausanne)

[BULBISSIME]

Coucou Zeph,
nice to read you on th SRGC forum ! good to get news when we're living 20 km away each other

[zephirine]

Hello Bulbi! You know, I'm mainly learning and lurking, here....and this is the place where I first met our friend "Biodiversite"! The world gets tinier and tinier every day, but the paths are longer and longer to  reach one another! 

[pehe]

At last we saw the sun after too many rainy and windy days. The autumn flowers clearly don't like this kind of weather!

Crocus banaticus
Crocus speciousus in front of a colchicum autumnale hybrid
Colchicum speciosum Album in rather poor condition, dirty and rumpled

Poul

[Onion]

Maybe I can help you with the Berberis...It should be Berberis koreana (orange berries), or more probably the 'Red Tears' Cv/selection (red berries). A true beauty indeed! But a prickly beauty too!
Pictures of B. koreana taken at the Aubonne arboretum in Switzerland (between Geneva and Lausanne)

Zephirine,

my first thought was B. koreana, too  . As you record a beauty, but a prickly one. We had have a cultivar 'Rubin' of B. koreana with a red/orange-red autumn foliage, in the nursery I work. But we "lost" the plants. The workers hate them because of the prickly caracter.

[Anthony Darby]

Corn marigolds growing in a field of barley near Glenhead Farm, between Dunblane and Doune, Perthshire.

[Philippe]

Hi

Second flowering for the corydalis cashmeriana. But what a disappointment!

First pic showing the bright pure blue colour from may, second pic showing the flowers which have recently opened on the same plant as before...
Amazing change isn't it? What is involved in such a difference? I first thought that the temperatures had an influence on the colour, but it isn't warmer now than last may.
Light intensity perhaps?
I noticed the same with the blue meconopsis, which turn to a fade bluish pink at the end of flowering, as if the plants were "tired" of producing those great blues of the beginning.

[Natalia]

Philippe, magnificent specimens!
  Corydalis especially with purple flowers.

After a dry summer in our gardens many plants bloom a second time.
Photos from the garden of my friend

[olegKon]

Back to the forum after a holiday and very busy September
Just to confirm Natalia's words: second flowering of a dianthus and Phlox

[olegKon]

Sorry, the dianthus picture is blurred, will try again. Any ideas of what it is? (Grown from seed as D.freynii which it is not)

[WimB]

In flower here now:

Sternbergia greuteriana
Iris 'Eco Little Bluebird' (flowering out of season)
Saxifraga 'Sugar Plum Fairy'