Garden Bloggers Bloom Day – November 2016

There are still a few annuals braving the chill – the one above, Calendula ‘Touch of Red Buff’ and below Nicotiana mutablis,

Antirrhinums include sumptuous ‘Black Prince’

and (in my view) insipid ‘The Rose’

As well as the pink flower carpet roses there is also this one, ‘Berkshire’ which is a very similar colour but has a more single form.

There are still Pelargoniums flowering well, this one is the ‘Boot Fair’ one

wonderful ‘Surcouf’

and this one, ‘Pink Capitatum’, the only one so far brought into the greenhouse.

There are at least a couple of Salvias (‘Dyson’s Scarlet’ and ‘Cerro Potosi’) covered in more blooms now than earlier in the year.

On the pergola the first few Clematis cirrhosa var. purpurascens ‘Freckles’ are flowering, but they are terribly tangled up with the roses and I’m a bit concerned both are suffering from the relationship!

In the greenhouse the loud Mandevilla Sundaville Pink is still pumping out its exotic blooms, but other exotics are still flowering (incongruously) outside.

This Grevillea

more Gazanias

and still the Nerines.

And to finish, not exotic, but what a good doer – Erysimum ‘Bowles Mauve’.

With thanks to Carol at May Dream Gardens who hosts everyone’s GBBDs.

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – September 2015

So it’s September, which has to be Aster time – see Aster Frikartii Monch above.  This is my definite favourite and I’m hoping next year my recent cuttings will be filling out the Swing Beds and forming a late purple haze together with the similar coloured Verbena bonariensis.

Another genus looking good now is Salvia.  I’m not 100% sure about all these names, but I think I have Salvia Dyson’s Crimson,

Salvia x jamensis ‘Stormy Sunrise’

Salvia microphylla ‘Cerro Potosi’

and Salvia East Friesland

There are plenty of pelagoniums still going strong, the first two unnamed, 

and then P. Surcouf

and this dainty scented pelargonium, P Pink Capitatum.  The flowers are much smaller than the ones above, but I love the markings and the bright green, scented foliage.

And many of the roses are back for a second appearance – Rosa Flower Carpet, with a huge number of buds

Rosa Korizont

This one a gift from my friend Louise at the beautiful Old Rectory Garden – Rosa Jacques Cartier.

This is St Swithun, growing up the front of the swing pergola

and Rosa Munstead Wood, new this year in the Mid Century bed,

and now joined by the similarly coloured dahlia, D. Downham Royal.

Other dahlias include D. Happy Single Date, in the Bronze Bed,

and D. Fifteen love (bought from Waitrose of all places, and still in its pot while I decide whether I should squeeze it into the Bronze Bed with the one above)

And to finsh, a couple of annuals still looking good – magnificent Molucella

and still very fresh to look at (although now rather collapsed in habit!) Malope.

With many thanks to Carol at May Dreams Gardens  for hosting everyone’s GBBD.  Why don’t you pop over and have a look at what everyone has has blooming now?