The weather recently has not been conducive to strolling around the garden.
Venturing out on Sunday to check for any wind damage and relieved to find everything intact, I fetched the camera to record what was flowering here in November.
The Cobaea scandens, which I have posted about before, is still rampantly growing in all directions. This stem is half way up through the cherry tree by the patio. the majority of the blooms have been purple, it is nice to see some white ones.
The other rampant annuals are the Nasturtiums, this one has self sown from last year.
The Hakonechloa macro 'Aureola' adds a splash of bright green in a pot on the patio...
...also in a pot is the non stop flowering Geranium 'Rozanne'.
The evergreen Viburnum tinus provides a flowering screen to the water buts at this time of year.
Through the Vitis 'Spectchley Red' covered arch...
...to the mixed border where the late flowering Eupatorium macula. 'Chocolate', with its chocolate coloured leaves and white flowers...
...and the Hydrangea 'Blue Wave', whose white flowers have a faint hint of blue in our soil, providing the only flower colour in this area.
It is amazing when walking around your own garden, how you can miss a plant in flower, I suddenly noticed the flowers on the Viburnum f 'candidissimum'...
...I don't think I have seen so many flowers on it before...
...close to the buds are little, tight clusters of scent.
Writing a garden blog, along with taking photos, encourages you to look closer at your garden, it is easy to just go out and work in your own garden and not stop to look around.
I have observed since writing about Our Garden@19 how some colours appear to dominate at different times of year.
In these photos white is, perhaps, surprisingly the main colour.
What colour dominates your garden at this time of year?
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You still have quite a lot of interest in your November garden. I like the Nasturtiums. They never do well for me, but it's great that yours may even self-seed. My garden is losing the flowers now but plenty is still green.
ReplyDeleteThey do self seed very easily in our climate. They are a very cheerful plant.
DeleteI love your white Cobaea scandans, it is so much prettier than the usual colour. And you have Viburnum candidissimum! I love it. You don' t see it very often.
ReplyDeleteThe Viburnum is a lovely plant, I won it many years ago in a plant heritage raffle.
DeleteLovely to see so many flowers still. I do still have a few nasturtiums, but my Rozanne is long gone. I have some lovely reddish leaves still and a few red and white Fuscias still flowering. I also have a red Salvia which is still going strong, so I guess red is up there with the brown.
ReplyDeleteChristopher Lloyd In his book Colour for the Adventurous Garden,stated, Brown can be full of vitality. And what of that essential component of life , the soil?
DeleteI still have nasturtiums, and of course roses. My Ghislaine de feligonde only stops flowering when I will have cut all the flowers and buds which are now on the plant. I noticed some white and blue cobaea scandans growing on the walls of one the Cambridge Colleges when we were visiting at the weekend...I had to do a second walk past...it was almost dark, but sure as sure, they were nodding down at me!
ReplyDeleteI was quite disappointed with the Cobaea to start with,it was so slow to get going. Now it is rampant!
DeleteYour photos are really lovely Brian. My garden is predominantly green and brown right now... not much left flowering except for sedums.
ReplyDeleteYou still managed to put together an attractive arrangement on Monday Cathy.
DeleteThat viburnum is indeed gorgeous - I have never heard of it before and do I assume from its source and Chloris's comment that it is quite rare?
ReplyDeleteI think that is the case Cathy. I must have a go at taking some cuttings.
DeleteI hope that your garden escapes any damage from the ferocious winds that are out there tonight Brian. Your viburnum is a star. I think that the white flowers are so much easier on the eye than pink. When did you sow your cobaea?
ReplyDeleteThank you Anna. I sowed it at the beginning of May.
DeleteYou have got a lot of interest still in the garden. Your Viburnum farreri is beautiful, I would love one in my garden but it may be too dry for it over the summer here. Amelia
ReplyDeleteThank you Amelia. There is some advantage to the English weather then!
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