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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 3, 2006 21:41:44 GMT
I just had a quick browse on the Beeb board as I haven't had a look for ages and there is a thread about the perceived lack of colour in the garden at Berryfields which has set me thinking. I've had a mental review of my garden and I have in flower purple Echinacea, several climbing roses, some late Delphiniums, Cosmos, Dahlias, Clematis, Sunflowers, Verbena bonariensis, Morning Glory, and Buddleja and a few I've overlooked I'm sure. That's not bad in a garden planted predominantly with native plants which are over by late summer. Plus I have a goodly lot of red apples on my trees still and lots of rosehips etc. When you think how hot and dry the summer was I'm really pleased to still have loads of green to look at - there was a point last summer when the whole place looked really brittle and parched. How's everyone else's Autumn colour?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2006 22:09:40 GMT
Still colour in my garden too  Busy Lizzie's, Mahonia, Japanese Anemones, Pansies, Roses, Verbena bonariensis, Pinks, Evening Primrose, Honeysuckle, an annual who's name escapes me at the mo, Abelia, nicotiana and berries on Pyracantha and Cotoneaster. |
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Post by sleepysunday on Oct 3, 2006 22:35:01 GMT
Good to hear from you again 4P, I know you hadn't gone far and that you've been busy, but I've missed you <hugssmiley>
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Post by andy on Oct 4, 2006 4:43:46 GMT
Late summer is always a colourful time in the garden. My penstemons are still flowering and the blues of the caryopteris and ceratistigma look superb. Fuchsias are at their best and i even have some helianthemum in good flower (the ones i cut back after their first flowering)
The berries on the cottoneaster horizontalis are as bright as any winter berried shrub and even the lavender are putting out a second flower.
The autumn crocus were looking awesome before the rain battered them this week and the hardy cyclamen are a riot of colour among the trees.
So there's a few in my garden...there's probably more.
Andy
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Post by andy on Oct 4, 2006 4:46:04 GMT
Just to add to the above that the glorious scent of the eleagnus and osmanthus hetrophyllus just top things off nicely.
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Post by 4pygmies on Oct 4, 2006 6:31:32 GMT
Gee thanks, Sleepy (hug right back atcha). I've been a bit busy trying to get the garden and goats sorted for the winter - sorted for me that is, still a total mess by everyone else's standards! Had a pep talk from darling CPB and have just been doing one thing at a time. Started by clearing away all the old beans and mucking out a goat shed - sounds simple but Jeez, it was hard work! Mind, I do love a nicely stacked pile of goat sh@t in me raised beds........! Now I've gotta cut down the asparagus ferns, clear the other side of the PT, and weed the old carrot bed ready for young Fredlies (my beloved hand reared kid) rather sumptuous batch of muck. And I still haven't finished the bas***d hedge trimming!
Morning Andy, sounds like your garden is in fine fettle. I have a ceratostigma in my little front garden flowering its socks off, love that particular shade of blue, it even looks nice with the fierce nettle which is growing through it! I remember the smell of Eleagnus -mmm - but I've lost most of my sense of smell with each baby I've had (had my 48th child 6 years ago...). I can still smell goat muck though.......
Have a nice day y'all.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2006 7:30:07 GMT
Oh - now it is daylight I can see that I have missed quite a few plants from my list - including a fuchsia.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2006 11:44:08 GMT
All your gardens sound lovely right now! Not doing too badly here ... among the annuals, canary creeper, nasturtiums, morning glory, lavatera and amaranthus are still going strong (actually, the morning glory only got going a couple of weeks ago). Fuschias and dahlia 'Bishop of Llanduff' seem quite happy, and the solanum jasminoides, planted from a cutting last year, spent this year romping up the wall and is now flowering its socks off. Unfortunately, it's too cold right now to sit out and enjoy the display  ... cheers ... |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 4, 2006 16:48:48 GMT
I just love autumn whether there's lots in flower or not! The autumn leaves are starting to fall and the grass looks lush again! As for flowers in my garden, I've got loads of verbena bonariensis, schizostylis coccinia (red) and pelargoniums still going strong, tangutica and Pennisetum Setaceum “Rubrum” and a tiny red dahlia (very disappointing!). The leaves on the vine are now a gorgeous purply brown and the heucheras add depth too. Oh I just love this time of year!!!
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... cheers ...
