Flowers and foliage- Now- November 2007

[Hans J]

Here some flowers from my garden today :

[zephirine]

In a french garden these days...
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Zephirine



Edit by Maggi: Apologies that these photos are no longer available to view!  

[ChrisB]

Lovely camellias Zeph.  I have an autumn flowering seedling now, but no buds this year.  Can't wait to see what it produces!

[zephirine]

How patient you are, Chris! I have been told camellias grown from seed would bloom after 7 or 8 years...
Hope you will post the flower when it comes!
Zeph

[shelagh]

Not sure my photography rivals Zephirine but here is another lovely trio that Brian has brought in today. At the front is the dainty Sax. fortunei obtusocuneato, back right is Sax. Fortunei 'Conwy Snow' and back left is Sax. fortunei 'Chrystal Pink'.
It is a beautiful autumnal day here in sunny Lancashire so we are making the most of it and the gardener has already just slipped outside to see if anything needs doing.

[Maggi Young]

A warm welcome to the Forum, Zepherine, good to have you join us.

That is a fetching threesome, Shelagh.... we  really ought to grow more of these Sax. fortunei forms..... note to self.....

[ranunculus]

Lovely image Shelagh.....by the way, did my e-mails reach you?

[ChrisB]

Hi Zeph, I'm not as patient as my mother thought I should be  - it was given to me by a man who had grown it from seed he had pollinated himself - and had grown it for five years, so he's the patient one really.  Can't take the credit.  I don't think I have too long to wait.... hope not anyway!  The older I get, the more I want things to happen RIGHT NOW!

[mark smyth]

working in the garden today I see many things are flowering out of season
Pulsatilla
Ranunculus ficaria
Primula vulgaris
Primula veris
Lonicera purpusii
Geranium 'Rozanne' still fgoing strong
Cyclamen coum
Ranunculus 'Hedgehog'
Phlox

[zephirine]

  I wish I could find such beauties as yours in the vicinity, Shelagh!!!
These dainty "Daimonjisu" are so lovely in the fall. I only grow 4 so far (rubrifolia, 'Black Ruby', 'Ruby Wedding' and 'Cheap Confections').
I just received 'Cotton Crochet' (a double white!!) and 'Crystal Pink' (oh my! what a foliage!) last week (...and immediately sent a request to Jurgen Peters' nursery in Hambourg to get more!).
They don't seem to be as popular in France as they deserve, alas, and several good nurseries I know won't carry them any more just because they don't sell!!!

Thank you Maggi! I'm glad to be among you too!

Chris, I have exactly the same symptoms as you! (I became the happiest grandmother in the world a week ago, but lovely Naëlle is born...in Stockholm! And I'll have to wait until November 23rd before I can hold her in my arms for good...and where is my patience gone? I want to hold her NOW!!!!! Lol!)
At the same time, four baby mums were born in my garden...well, opened their first blooms ever, I mean.
- Two light pink "twins" (I had initially thought they were the same plant, they were just born so close to one another!) : same colour, but one is double, fairly low, blooming at the top end, while its twin is slender, opens its secondary branches and has flowers from top to bottom! I called them Gwennaëlle and Gwenaëlle, of course...

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- a warm pink semi-double with lovely pointed petals..I called it Aenaëlle...

- a lilac-pink single one..this one will be Lilanaëlle...wonder why?

Zephirine, the frustrated grandma!

[Maggi Young]

Zephirine, many congratulations on the arrival of baby Naëlle   .... we will expect photos of her later in November... after you have had time for lots of cuddles with her!
Thank goodness you have these other pretty babies in your garden to keep you amused in the meantime!

[ChrisB]

Took these pics yesterday afternoon.

[zephirine]

Several astrantias put out fresh scapes since last month!
Lovely fall colours on Aceriphyllum rossii, a new plant for me this year.
And low-growing, dainty actaea japonica still blooming strong...
Zephirine

[Cris]

Hi

Hans, very beatiful Oxalis you have. 
A few weeks ago i've planted a Oxalis sp. and sooner i've planted a O. Triangularis.  The first one has big leaves.

Zeph, first os all, congratulations for the birth of baby Naëlle.

Dis you have grown your Schizostylis from seed? It's very beatiful.
I've some germinated, but very small.

[Lesley Cox]

Cris, Oxalis triangularis also has very large leaves, of an amazing red/black colour and arranged in triangular leaflets. I often think it should have a cultivar name of `D'Arth Vader' or `Stealth Bomber' or somthing similar. A well grown plant taken from a glasshouse (less so, from the garden) has a truly sinister look. The smallish pale pink flowers should be removed in my opinion as they totally spoil the dark and forbidding look.