November 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Diane Whitehead]

I've just come home from the Southern Hemisphere (Chile and Ecuador)
and am surprised to see that the Gentiana paradoxa/ septemfida hybrid
I wrote about on Sept 12 is still in full flower.  What a great plant!

[Maggi Young]

My goodness, that is showing willing. It must have  wanted to show you what you missed by going on your travels!

Hope your southern hemisphere jaunts went well.... I have been following some of the "talk" in the pbs and it sounds good..... good to have you "home" again, though!

[Diane Whitehead]

Russ Graham, an Oregon USA nursery owner, sent me seeds of the various
forms of Saxifraga fortunei he grows.  Here are the seedlings in flower. 

The flowers all look the same but the leaves vary a lot.

[Onion]

Some autumn colour from the nursery I work.

[Maggi Young]

Intense colour, Uli .... that would brighten any work day 

[Onion]

Some more. Viburnum nudum cultivar 'Winterthur', a compact form.

[Onion]

Intense colour, Uli .... that would brighten any work day 

Only the sun where missed today. And this after two wonderful sunny weeks.

[David Nicholson]

Lovely colours Uli.

[Lesley Cox]

Those are stunning autumn colours Uli. I am obsessed by autumn leaf colour; would almost give up spring flowers to be in autumn for ever. Almost I love the Vaccinium.

[Maggi Young]

Ian and I have both fallen for the Vaccinium griffithianum - we will be looking out for that one.
   
   

[Roma]

I haven't been out with the camera much lately but went out yesterday to record what was flowering.  It was rather windy so some pics were just too blurry to show.
There are still one or two flowers on Crocus pulchellus - such a long flowering period and all from one or two corms or seeds scattered in used potting compost.  One flower on Helleborus niger, a few on Geranium 'Lawrence Flatman'.  Autumn colour has not been very good.  Most leaves have blown off before enough had coloured to give a show.
A few pics
A late Gentiana 'Strathmore'
A late or ?early Gentiana angustifolia
Helleborus x ericsmithii
Corydalis ochroleuca
A late cyclamen hederifolium and an early C. coum
Meconopsis x sheldonii
Galanthus corcyrensis
 

[Lesley Cox]

I didn't find much useful about THAT Vaccinium on Google. Its name seems to be in doubt and nothing about what it truly is. Certainly I saw nothing about where one might find it. Glorious colour!

[Roma]

There is a bit of colour in the greenhouse but not alpines.  Begonias are such good value.  They just keep on flowering.
I bought the orange one at Dobbies earlier this year.  It has dark leaves and is called either 'Glowing' or 'Burning Embers.
The red is a non-stop Mocha type which amazingly survived last winter in the greenhouse.
I bought the Canna last year.  It was not named and was the only dark leaved one on the bench.  I think it may be a seedling.  It spent the winter in the house.  It was planted out in a tub but I took it inside about three weeks ago when I saw the flower buds forming.

[Olga Bondareva]

Yesterday's last crocuses. Today is -2. 

[KentGardener]

Today was my first look at my garden in daylight for far too long.   

I  went out to take some pictures of snowdrops (but the sky is so overcast that all my pictures have turned out rubbish  )

The only picture that turned out OK is this Zantedeschia.  This is a form that is grown widely on Madeira - but I have never managed to find out if it has a cultivar name.