October 2012 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Tim Ingram]

Rather a glorious sunset tonight with a rainbow and low warm light. These pictures don't really do it justice but the plants seem to join in with the rich colours of foliage and cyclamen flowering.

[annew]

Great display Tim. Just collecting seeds of this Gentiana asclepiadea - is the white stripe unusual enough to mention on the packet when I send it to the exchanges?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Rather a glorious sunset tonight with a rainbow and low warm light. These pictures don't really do it justice but the plants seem to join in with the rich colours of foliage and cyclamen flowering.

Fantastic Autumn scenes, Tim !

[Tony Willis]

here is my first galanthus open

Galanthus peshmenii

together with an Iris unguicularis I collected in Turkey. I cannot usually flower these iris as we do not get enough dry weather to ripen them. We have had thirteen inches of rain in September.

[kindredspiritkevin]

Rather a glorious sunset tonight with a rainbow and low warm light. These pictures don't really do it justice but the plants seem to join in with the rich colours of foliage and cyclamen flowering.

Beautiful colours.

[Natalia]

Великолепный октябрь!

[Maggi Young]

Gorgeous October indeed, Natalia !

Thladiantha dubia

http://wisplants.uwsp.edu/scripts/detail.asp?SpCode=THLDUB

[WimB]

Some plants in flower here now:

Saxifraga 'Cheap Confections'
and Saxifraga 'Cherry Pie'
Tricyrtis 'Miyazaki Hybrids'
and some late flowers on Ranunculus alpestris and Ranunculus crenatus

[Tim Ingram]

This is a closer up view of the Solidago in the first picture of this thread. Unfortunately we have lost the name but for a 'Golden Rod' this is singularly elegant and attractive. Like all such good things it came from a small Hardy Plant Society plant sale, and gives great autumn colour in our dry garden where such things as asters and dahlias are not so successful.

[annew]

Tim, I have the same solidago, it is a beauty and much more elegant than the earlier species. I got it as S. rugosa 'Fireworks'.

[KentGardener]

I noticed a strange smell in the garden earlier this week.  After a bit of detective work I tracked it down to this Arum pictum 'Primrose Warburg' that someone kindly gave to me last year.

[Lvandelft]

This is a closer up view of the Solidago in the first picture of this thread. Unfortunately we have lost the name but for a 'Golden Rod' this is singularly elegant and attractive. Like all such good things it came from a small Hardy Plant Society plant sale, and gives great autumn colour in our dry garden where such things as asters and dahlias are not so successful.

Tim, does Solidago caesia ring a bell?

the other possibility might be S. rugosa, but that one I have never seen here myself....

[daveyp1970]

I noticed a strange smell in the garden earlier this week.  After a bit of detective work I tracked it down to this Arum pictum 'Primrose Warburg' that someone kindly gave to me last year.

what a beautiful leaf John

[KentGardener]

I thought so too Davey when I first saw the leaf on the show bench two years ago. 

Then got such a lovely surprise at the same show one year ago when the grower handed me a gift of a pot he had kindly propagated for me.

Plants people are so kind.   




( no one warned me about the smell though  )

[johnw]

In the Annapolis Valley Hippophae rhamnoides 'Leikora' is awfully generous with its fruits this year.

johnw