Top Ten Blooms for October.

There is always a long look kickshaw in October when my nerines come into full sweetheart . Some of them start in September , but October is the calendar month when they are all swagger their material , each more endearing than the last . The bowdenii hybrids can live out of doors and they make ever turgid clumps .

Nerine bowdenii

I particularly enjoy the pallid pinkNerine bodwenii‘Pink Surprise ’ . The flower are so touchy .

Nerine bowdenii

Nerine‘Pink Surprise ’

The I with sarniensis blood line have to stay within . The adorable vermilion - redNerinesarniensisstarts blooming in September but it has to live in the household in wintertime as it is too delicate for outside . It grow its leaf in winter and these would be killed by the first icing . I keep all mysarniensis/ bowdeniihybrids in an unheated greenhouse but I cover them with fleece when it is very stale . favourite include the shimmering dusky flowers of ‘ Mr. John ’ .

Nerine‘Mr . John ’

Nerine bowdenii

And the huge dark pinkish flowers of Nerine ‘ Zeal Giant ’ .

Nerine‘Zeal Giant ’

shine whiteNerine bowdenii‘Ella K ’ should be dauntless but I find that white nerines do n’t seem to be as brave as the pinkish ones . This one starts blooming in September .

Nerine‘Pink Surprise’

Nerine ‘ Ella K ’

When ‘ Ella K ’ is go over thenNerine bowdenii‘Alba ’ take over .

Nerine bowdenii‘Alba ’

Nerine‘Mr. John’

Best of all though is my wonderful industrial plant of the delicateNerine undulata . This year there are 46 blooms in the one jackpot . I suppose I really should remember of part it , it has be for so long in the same potty . This has to be done in springtime .

Nerine undulata

My turn two favourite isAmarine belladivawhich is a cross between nerine and amarylis . The flowers are much bigger than nerines . I have ‘ Aphrodite ’ which has delicately disinvest flowers . It is supposed to be unfearing so this year I am risk it outdoors . It is a good melodic theme to mulch nerines and amarines because the embryonic buds are vulnerable to rime .

Nerine‘Zeal Giant’

Amarine belladiva‘Aphrodite ’

My number three is a little plant life which I cosset in the greenhouse . It is actually an oxalis but forget the repulsion of that creep pot with red leaves;Oxalis corniculatathat gets everywhere . This is an aristocratic slight plant from South Africa which sits politely in its pot and make no trouble . And very jolly it is too . It blooms right through the fall .

Oxalis massoniana

Nerine ‘Ella K’

While we are in the glasshouse I might as well let in the little blusher brush plant haemanthus . It commonly comes in red but this isHaemanthus albiflos . The chilli plant in the pictorial matter is‘Apache ’ , I always produce two or three works of this , it make a nice compact plant and fruits prolifically .

Haemanthus albiflos

I am not very keen on fuchsia . They look as if they are wearing the variety of dresses I loved when I was six , pinkish with frou frou skirts . My appreciation have change now . But I am very fond of a hardy climbing fuchsia called Lady Boothby . It is brave down to -10 . The bloom are a lovely shiny red and purpleness . I intend a climbing fuchsia is rather strange . I corrupt it at East Ruston Old Vicarage gardens , you could always be certain of finding something unusual there .

Nerine bowdenii‘Alba’

Fuchsia‘Lady Boothbury ’

Of course we have to include Michaelmas daisies in a list of October favourites . The appointment of these plants has become a minefield . An aster is no longer a wide-eyed aster , or not always anyway . My favourite is – fall on , have ’s give it its proper name , Symphyiotrichum‘Vasterival ’ . As you would expect from a plant from this fabulous garden , ‘ Le Vasterival ’ it is a existent beauty . The late Princess Sturdza who garden near Dieppe in France was an amazing gardener and the garden was one of my all time favourites . She was a very shivery dame though . She used to conduct her guide tours clutching a pitchfork and she poked people with it if she felt they were aim too close to the edge of the borders . S.‘Vasterival is a tall grow aster with masses of starry flowers on black stems . It is ethereally frail and airy and although it diffuse and languorously leans all over neighbouring plants I smile indulgently at it and allow it the sorting of behaviour that less beauties would n’t get off with .

Symphyiotrichum‘Vasterival ’ withAnemone x hybrida‘Andrea Atkinson ’

Nerine undulata

Most hoi polloi would n’t put Nipponese anemone in their top ten favorite lists , they are very invasive . I dug this white-hot sea anemone up last year as I think it was too near the front of the mete . But this year she blooms on , serenely unconscious of the fact that she is not supposed to be there . But the flowers are such a saturated white and the blooms last much longer than on other Japanese anemones . The name isAnemone x hyrida‘Andrea Atkinson ’ . It is very alike to the more common ‘ Honorine Jubert ’ but I think it is good . It looks adorable withS.’Vasterival ’ .

I have rather a lot of asters and I have n’t room to describe them all so I ’ll just show you another deary . It isSymphyiotrichum‘Little Carlow ’ . It is much better behaved than ‘ Vasterival ’ and stays prissy and thick without settle all over . It is acordifoliushybrid . I have one by my garden gate and total strangers knock on the door to ask its name .

Symphyiotrichum‘Little Carlow ’

Amarine belladiva‘Aphrodite’

The centres of the flower are white-livered but they are always abuzz with bee and once the blossom are cross-pollinate the centres turn over pink . They look pretty with the dark pink flowers ofPersicaria amplexicaulis‘Blackfield’ . Persicaria are very useful for late summer and autumn color . Like the asters they have suffered from a name change , which is a disgrace as rather childishly , I always used to love Polygonun ‘ Superbum ’ . As they are knotweeds most of them circulate to make nice big clumps . Cathy atramblinginthegardenhas a skilful collection of these useful flora . She very kindly send mePersicaria microcephala‘Red Draco ’ . It has adorable benighted red leaves with grey veins .

Persicaria microcephala ‘ Red Dragon ’

I ’m not always trusted of the name of the persicaria that I have begged or borrowed but I think the next one isPersicaria campanulata . It ’s one I – er- borrow . It ’s alright , it spread out so tight nobody is going to miss a flyspeck petty musical composition .

Oxalis massoniana

Persicaria campanulata

The pink and white Persicaria amplexicaulis look good develop withSambucus nigra ‘ smutty Lace’My next plant life has suffer from a name change too . It used to be a chrysanthemum , but no longer . I think it is now calledArctanthemum arcticum.it is an arctic daisy which spreads into endearing ball and has gleaming , snow white flowers . I love it .

Arctanthemum arcticum

Haemanthus albiflos

Next calendar month there will be more chrysanthemum as they are the stars of November .

I will end with something a bit weird and wonderful . It is unexampled to me this twelvemonth . It is a succulent calledOrostachys iwarenge , or Formosan Dunce Cap . It has russet scab from which develop slight conical ceiling of pinkish efflorescence .

Orostachys iwarenge

Fuchsia‘Lady Boothbury’

So that ’s my inclination of ten darling for October . Here in Suffolk the weather condition has been unseasonably strong and the flowers seem to think that it is still summer . Other parts of the nation have had gale and the tail last of Ophelia , but here we have just had incredibly warm day and a peculiar amber sky which then turn yellow and glowed with an eerie light . I trust that you have still father plenty to enjoy in the garden and that you will join me and show us which plants you are enjoying this month .

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Your beautiful Nerines have made their yearly appearing ! Has a twelvemonth passed already ? I ’d reveal a germ for these bulb locally and I intend I ’d planted some but they have n’t appeared so perhaps I ’m , suffering from a delusion . The Haemanthus made an appearance at my local botanical garden ’s evenfall sale but , after lengthy deliberations , I surpass on it because of its water needs . However , I do have a unmarried Chinese Dunce Cap left from several I set years ago !

You have an amazing collection of Nerines ! And loads of other blooming beauties right now , too ! Persicaria are always such a jubilant sight in a garden . 🙂

Little Carlow is one of my favorite too – reliable and beautiful . Best wishesEllie

Symphyiotrichum‘Vasterival’ withAnemone x hybrida‘Andrea Atkinson’

Some expectant choices for your top ten ! Your attender nerines are for certain worth the extra care . So beautiful . The unusual sorrel was new to me and is stunning !

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Oh you have made me decide that I really must plant a nerine or two Chloris . I ’m not even certain when I should be ordering or institute bulbs but will do some research later on today 🙂 Any gloss in October is worth its wait in amber . Aster ‘ Little Carlow ’ is a favourite here too and as you say is much loved by the bees . deplorably my plants at the allotment exit but I have it in the garden as well .

Symphyiotrichum‘Little Carlow’

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Top Ten Blooms for October.