Well aren't you lucky you don't have to have it in your yard! Is he a nice man?
Pass the salt please darling.....(I sure hope you know what I mean) ROFL
OOPS,
and not to stray too far off topic,
one i am glad Pieter started as he has inspired me to take a closer look at things out there and take note of some of the things I like.
I'll add what I caught today of the fuchsia stems that I left standing tho dead, as supports for the new growth and an electrical cord.
I use a clothes pin as a universal marker of size.
I expect that we all use the same Chinese ones world over now hey?
A thread-leaf maple I bought this spring, a delightful yellow.
And is the Pieris supposed to have blossoms forming now? It would be great if it would bloom now as the nudiflorum is beginning too but I thought it strange to find the bush/tree so loaded with buds today.
Dana, I've had that 'mini' one -or something frightfully close to it- but it never made it through the first winter I had it. This Magellanica we've had for probably 8 or 9 years, I made the mistake year before last to cut it down to soil level over the winter and of course the whole bush had to regrow from the crown, so it wasn't quite as spectacular as it was the year before. We've had hummers in ours as well, but hummers in our yard seem to prefer the Early Dutch Honeysuckle and the Crocosmia, with the occasional side trip to the Fuchsia and whatever is flowering of the Hostas.
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Yes, the Magellan is a staple of the hummy, their bread and butter that they return to when there is nothing else.
I planted the mini outside last Nov just before snow flew and it survived but in a good location.
Some years the winter cuts them back to the ground as last year and it takes longer to get flowers.
I've started listing what I have managed to find hummies enjoying in my garden in a thread in photography.
I've noticed that they like many different flowers, each in their season but some, any time they can get them, salvias in particular.
This has to be one of THE longest flowered plants we have in the yard: Dicentra 'Luxuriant'. It typically starts its first flush of flowers late April/early May and goes on until first hard frost, which we haven't had here as yet. It's STILL in bloom today whereas most all the other Bleeding Hearts have all but died down...
Well, maybe I shouldn't say that too loud. Our Honeysuckle still has flowers as well and it covers a similar time frame to the Bleeding Heart shown here.
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I have to say every thing as it is spring and we have had a lot of rain for a change. All the new decidious growth is soft and green, Daffodil paddocks are finished but all the azaleas and rhodos are out. The old Hawthorn hedges from a 160 odd years ago are absolutly glorious this year. Masses of flowers as were the wild cherry plums. Should be a good autumn for berries and rare parrots.
Liz
I have just had the scrub (overgrown garden) removed from one I bought with me up here from a seaside garden about 25 years ago. It has never flowered so will see what it does now. Down there we always had fruit. Reached 32 C today. Summer is on it's way :/
Well that's anyone's guess really. The flowers are frost sensitive but the fruit should hold if temps don't dip below -4°C (25°F).
Best of luck with your Loquat tree.
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Re: What still looks good in YOUR garden....
These pictures are really not from my garden but a garden I look after for a senior in Vancouver. So in a sence it is in a way my gardened. Anyway this Bonica rose is still putting out some flowers in November, remarkable considering the weather we had at this time last year.
wow, doug! that white iris is absolutely FABULOUS!!! gonna have to get me some!!
i can't believe things this year. my hydrangea bloomed mid-september (i've NEVER seen one bloom any time other than spring in all my life!), i've had black-eyed susan's, coneflowers and sunflowers bloom recently and the roses are STILL blooming!! the osteoporum daisy is still blooming, too. this is november - they're all supposed to be asleep by now!
i do have some pics - need to upload to get them off the camera and the cell phone before i can post 'em.
Amazing that all the rains of late have not destroyed these buds and flowers.
They are still unfurling in the drier moments and blossoming.
This New Dawn was one of the few plants that were here when I moved in 20 yrs ago.
I had left another old one behind at an old farm. How nice to have it for so long.
But she is a short early summer bloomer most years.
This year however, she went on and on as this Halloween photo indicates. I've got her supported by tree branches at the back of the garden.
Some years we get rose buds going on up to xmas but not this one, usually.
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