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Message 1.Â
Posted by Juliet (U2196646) on Sunday, 20th November 2005
... in your garden at the moment? - and what ought to be? Are the seasons still out of sync? - or has the cold spell put paid to the confusion?
In flower I have two Erica carnea springwood white (& some other Ericas in bud); four Jasminum nudiflorum; one Anemone coronaria mr fokker; the Cornus sanguinea midwinter fire; two Geum borisii; one Papaver orientale beauty of livermere; one Papaver orientale royal wedding; the Clematis marie boisselot; and the Rosa altissimo (& Rosa southampton in bud).
Which ones ought to be in flower? - none of them! - the Ericas & Jasmines are early; the Anemone & Cornus are either very early or very late indeed; and all the others are late. The only thing in my garden which is supposed to be in flower in the middle of November are autumn Crocus, and they were early & finished at the end of October. The frost doesn't seem to have put anything off, except that the Poppies have gone floppy (
- sorry 
) - in fact the Clematis didn't burst into flower until the day after the first frost, a couple of days ago ...
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Message 2
Posted by clondalkingardener (U2328443) on Sunday, 20th November 2005
Hi Juliet,My Clematis Dr Ripple is still in flower even though it should have finished in July. Honeysuckle American Beaury and all my fus*hia are still in bloom even though we have had frost here for the past few nights. It's starting to freeze now 5:24pm.
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Message 3
Posted by Plocket (U684859) on Sunday, 20th November 2005
Hi Juliet! Well until the frost arrived I had Japanese Anemonies, verbena bonariensis (just about!), kaffir lilies, coreopsis, rudbeckia, heleniums, hardy fuchsias, pelargoniums, clematis Guernsey Cream (third flowering this year!!!), clematis HF Young, clematis Sieboldii, cyclamen, pansies. The garden was looking fairly good although I say it myself!
Now that we've had the frost I've cut back the Sieboldii and wrapped it up for winter, and Guernsey Cream and HF Young are probably in shock now! The Japanese Anemonies have totally given up as have the VB. I'm not sure yet about everything else - I'll need a day where the temperature rises above Zero to see whether they recover prior to winter! -
Message 4
Posted by Fat_Andy (U2418582) on Sunday, 20th November 2005
Hi Juliet. Until yesterday, I had marigolds and busy lizzies still flowering but the hard frost of the last couple of days seems to have put paid to them. I also had a variegated hydrangea and a ceanothus in full flower. I'm sure neither of them are supposed to be flowering at the moment !!
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Message 5
Posted by Slugger (U2316506) on Sunday, 20th November 2005
Hi Juliet
My perennial wallflower (Bowles Purple) is, as always, in flower, as is the odd penstemon, crocus and helebore. Star at the moment though is my winter flowering camellia - camellia sisanqua (or something like that) which I picked ip at Bodnant earlier this year - lovely white and pink flowers and a scent too! -
Message 6
Posted by Dame Wombat (U2332024) on Monday, 21st November 2005
The impatiens was flowering its socks off, until Saturday when the frost got it. Until then it complemented the cyclamens and nerine very nicely. Apart from that there's still masses of lobelia and nothing much else...
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Message 7
Posted by Slugger (U2316506) on Monday, 21st November 2005
Forgot to mention my Narcissus Romieuxii which flowers every winter (in a pot) then gets put on the bottom shelf of the greenhouse and forgotten about. Found it last Friday in bud, bought it into the house and it's now in flower!
Spring is here!!!!! -
Message 8
Posted by chrism (U2172223) on Monday, 21st November 2005
Hi, Juliet.
Just been out in the cold to count - 10 of the penstemons still in flower, 4 of the hardy geraniums, the verbena bonariensis, a blue hyssop, and some self-sown antirrhinums.
Lots of clumps of green from the self-sowing stuff - sisyrinchium, forget-me-nots, primroses, cowslips, nigella - so the garden's still looking fairly well furnished in spite of all the frost. -
Message 9
Posted by William (U2169036) on Monday, 21st November 2005
Some roses and wild daisies are stil in flower
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Message 10
Posted by Trillium (U2170869) on Monday, 21st November 2005
Hi Juliet,
No idea - can't see the end of the garden for fog
The frost finished off most flowers in the garden but flowering now are:
- several cyclamen
- Viburnum tinus
- Viburnum davidii
- fatsia japonica
- jasinium nudiflorum
- my winter cherry - Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis'
- one stubborn David Austin rose (not sure which one)
Otherwise still lots of green foliage and berries around plus grasses so still plenty to look at. -
Message 11
Posted by Obelixx (U2157162) on Monday, 21st November 2005
From the windows, I can see penstemons, hardy geraniums (blue/purple), Japanese anemones, shrub roses, a climbing rose, winter jasmine, viburnum "Snowball", viburnum "Bodnantense Dawn", clematis "Beauty of Worcester" and "President" and a shrub mallow - and of course the winter pansies and heathers in tubs and some pelargoniums in the two hanging baskets I haven't yet brought in. Daft!
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Message 12
Posted by Juliet (U2196646) on Monday, 21st November 2005
Nature does seem to be a bit crazy this year, doesn't it?!
I've just found a tiny white flower on one of my Berberis cuttings - it hasn't even got proper roots yet!
Those people who haven't said - what have you got in your garden which is actually supposed to flower in November? I've had trouble finding much (though if everything continues to flower this madly every year, that hardly matters!). -
Message 13
Posted by Rhoda Dendron (U2176380) on Monday, 21st November 2005
My coleus finally bit the dust and got bagged up for the dump this weekend. Canna is suddenly looking none to healthy this morning. A couple of the penstemons, a nemesia, diascia and lobelia are still flowering. I bought in my fabulous aeonium schwarzkopf along with some other succulents which I have in my front gravel garden - they are sunk in mesh pots so I can lift them easily and bring them in for the winter but they are now getting rather big and I'm running out of space indoors for them. I may have to make some hard decisions about which ones to leave out to brave the coming cold. I have various echeveria type things in a hanging basket and a shallow pot with a load of sempervivums, jovibarbas and a raoulia in it - I have left these out in the winter in the past and they have survived disliking wet more than cold. I would hate to lose them but I am worried that it will get too cold for them this year.
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Message 14
Posted by Dame Wombat (U2332024) on Monday, 21st November 2005
Hi Rhoda. Your mention of nemesia reminded me that my plant list was only of those at ground level. So in addition to the cyclamens and nerine there are masses of pansies and stuff still in the hanging baskets.
Like you, my coleus and canna were consigned to the compost bin on the weekend. Never mind, time to start planning next year's garden. Yay! -
Message 15
Posted by chrism (U2172223) on Monday, 21st November 2005
I always expect some of the penstemons to flower until the end of November, and some go on into December in milder weather. But they need a sunny spot and don't like having wet feet.
'Firebird', 'Garnet', 'Alice Hindley', 'Sour Grapes', 'Flamingo', 'Lilac Frost' (grown from seed this year) and 'Apple Blossom' are still in bloom, and a few newer acquisitions that I can't remember the names of.
If I could keep only one, it would be 'Alice Hindley' - she's tall and erect and has beautiful pale lavender 'bells'.
And all so easy to increase from cuttings. -
Message 16
Posted by Toadspawn (U2334298) on Monday, 21st November 2005
The following flowers can be observed today but mostly just hanging on rather than flowering out of season. Not producuing a very intertesting or attractive display.
Scented Pelargoniums, flat leaved parsley, tangerine sage, wall/hedge Germander, Cyclamen, hardy Osteospermum, Schizostylus, Rudbekkia, pansy, Cerinthe, Penstemon, Leucanthemum, Euphorbia, double Welsh poppy, Erigeron, Nerine, Campanula, Gazania, christmas rose, Chrysanthemum, hardy Fuchsia, Iberis, Gaillardia, Eryssimum - Bowles mauve, Petrohagia, primroses, Hebe, annual phlox, and alpine strawberries still fruiting. -
Message 17
Posted by princessanabana (U2421659) on Monday, 21st November 2005
Not a very impressive list but......pelergonums, cyclamen, winter jasmine, camellia buds (don't hold out much hope for them). Colour from my grasses, dangerous berries, heuchera and curly red leuco something (affectionately called lucazade by me). My houttyania (?) was lovely but either the frost got it or does it die back in winter? Too lazy to get books out to check spelling or look up stuff, now that I have discovered this site! Yours gratefully PA.
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Message 18
Posted by ken-71 (U2340356) on Monday, 21st November 2005
Gorgeous display of Dahlias, finally cut by the frost, some mediocre so will replace them with Nerines .Also flowering their little hearts out are hardy cyclamen, they lasted from November until March last season.
Otherwise just grass, but do like the frosty rhyme (sp) as a lot of stuff like Teazels show up well for the camera. -
Message 19
Posted by p3pper (U2555389) on Monday, 21st November 2005
Daisies are flowering in my garden.
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Message 20
Posted by KarmaChameleon (U2371177) on Monday, 21st November 2005
What a lovely thread.
I still have some
Tulbaghias
Dahlias
Kniphofia pauciflora (small plant with about 8 spikes)
Japanese anemonies
Cyclamen
Schizostylis coccinea
Nerine undulata
Hedychium coccinea and gardnerianum
Papaver atlanticum semi plenna - this hasn't been without a flower since April - great plant
Clematis (don't know the name large flowered pinkish purple) - survived three years of being mown to the ground as is was in the lawn, this year when I dug a new bed I couldn't dig it out, so left it and oh boy has it flowered.
Verbena bonariensis
Primula capitata subsp. mooreana
Primula heladoxa
I'm waiting impatiently for Neomacaria caerula to flower the buds have been showing colour for 2 weeks and it gets a daily visit as the flowers only last one day each and this is it's first flowering. -
Message 21
Posted by weedy (U2329409) on Wednesday, 23rd November 2005
My garden seems not to be in a frost pocket after all. Although it did get frosted rather badly last year...
Typing this today I can see penstemons, bedding lobelia (though struggling a bit now), yet more (!!) nasturtiums having a good go, hardy geraniums, the alchemilla mollis is just coming into flower again, my rudbeckias have just about gone over. Most strangely, I have a huge clump of antirrhinums that look wonderful with hoar frost on them - purple, pink and white but 'frosted'. The impatiens has gone squish but next to it the red grasses look fab and the beans have tried again. I'm also still getting one or two tomatoes but they are very very cold and need warming up prior to consumption!! The lavenders that I normally manage to kill are in bud and my herb pot has gone nuts with a new flush of growth as well.
I think the best-looking plants right now are my pot of autumn cyclamen. They are bright red and great for cheering me up on a foggy cold day. I'm a bit confused though - last year they were pink or white but now they are very definitely red. If I take seeds from this year will the resulting plants produce red or pink or white flowers?? (I'll post this Qu in Garden Clinic too) wg
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