November 2012 in the Northern Hemisphere

[vanozzi]

Nice cane begonias John.  Begonia Little Brother Montgomery never performs well for me in sunny Australia and yet you have it thriving outdoors in freezing conditions !

Olga, your pictures are just so beautiful.

[johnw]

Olga  - I am keen to know if the Sasa tsuboiana stays green above the snowline with you.  This particular species is rated highly in N. America even though it's a spreader but not so rampant as some Sasas.

johnw

[Olga Bondareva]

Olga  - I am keen to know if the Sasa tsuboiana stays green above the snowline with you.  This particular species is rated highly even though it's a spreader though not so rampant as some others.

John it stays green below the snowline.  After I shooted it i pressed it by a log and covered with spruce branches. Above the snowline it loose it's leaves.
It has grown at my garden since 2003. And yes it is not as aggressive as many other bamboo.

[cohan]

Olga- beautiful shots of course- yes winter can be very beautiful- there has to be something good about it  Nice to see your snow left again for a while- I thought ours would, but it is staying- now we've had another 20-30cm on top!
The bamboo is interesting, it would be interesting to try here!

[Pete Clarke]

Petrocosmea grandiflora - a nice delicate flowered plant.

[Roma]

Still flowering this month
An unnamed aster
Colchicum agrippinum
Crocus pulchellus
Gentiana 'The Caley'

[Maggi Young]

Roma, is  your nameless Aster from seed collected by Alistair McKelvie? I have one just like it. I don't know what it is, either!

[Roma]

I got the aster at a Friends of Cruickshank Garden plant sale 3 or 4 years ago.  It could be a cultivar.  I don't remember if it had a name when I got it.  It is thriving in dry shade beside my big birch trees.  The Rudbeckia fulgida I bought to go with it is just surviving and has not flowered for two years

[Maggi Young]

Mmmm ... whisper it ... all asters do look  pretty much alike, eh?

[Victor Yatskevich]

3 weeks ago and we had a similar snowy picture, but then the snow has melted and the temperature of +3 - +8
But I'm afraid things will go back soon and before March we will not see anything green ...

[Olga Bondareva]

Roma thank you taking us back from snow to flowers.

Some picts from S.-Petersburg Botanical Garden orchid show. Please don't ask me the names. I am a zero in the subject.

[angie]

Wow Olga, some gorgeous pictures there.

Angie 

[Tim Ingram]

Autumn colours are just beginning to go but these are a few examples from a week or so ago. Little in flower but Eupatorium ligustrinum is always good value, despite being severely cut back last winter. At any other time of year it would probably hardly be noticed. Serratula seoanei is one of those names that hides in the back of your mind, but is a welcome and unusual alpine so late in the year (I need to grow it in much poorer soil because it has grown far to lax). Colouring leaves are always rather beautiful, and immensely varied; I like the green edged hydrangea. Finally we have a quartet of trees in view from the house: Acer griseum, Cornus controversa 'Variegata', Magnolia 'Leonard Messel' and M. 'Elizabeth'. Underneath are bulbs to look forward too in the spring.

[Paul T]

If anyone does want names for any of Olga's pics let le know.  I can at least provide genus names for most of them if wanted.

[Olga Bondareva]

Thank you Angie.
Thank you Paul!

Some other orchids from the exhibition. Small species.