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| This year's gardening season is nearing the end in my garden. In a week or two everything can be over. Last year the winter came around November the 20th ( I mean REAL winter) and held until March. But sometimes the first snow falls after Christmas. Let's see. It seems that nearly everything is 'closing down' for the winter. But I'm still waiting for 5 chrysanthemums to open. I've cut all my phloxes and heliopsis down, so there is a lot of 'air' in the beds.
Vitis vinifera Purpurea on garden shed. My chickens fly up on the water barrel and eat the grapes:
Last helianthus. Simon Wiesenthal:
Last Aconitum carmichaelli. The latest clone.
Lobelia Tania. The hardest of them all in my garden. It started blooming very late this year.
Aster X frikartii Wunder von Staffa. One of my absolute favourites. A big clump is breathtaking. I have divided mine last year.
Leucanthemella serotina looks worn down.
Phlox Herbstwalzer is singing the last chorus.
Variegated privet. Normally it grows to be a giant bush, so I transformed it into a little tree instead, so I have a hosta and Epimediums growing under it.
Chrysanthemum Innocence(= L'Innocence). I have seen it being sold in England as Aunt Milicent! for some years. But now I can see the original name. Very late, very hardy, selfsupporting. Up to 70 cm with me.
Chrysanthemum Karminsilber. Hardy. Needs support. Blooms each year.
Chrysanthemum Poesie. I LOVE IT! Unlike the other chrysanthemums, it smells of HONEY!. I also like this herbal smell many chrysanthemums have.
Chrysanthemum Apollo. Hardy in open areas, but not a rampant grower. I wish it was a little faster to grow. Selfsupporting. There must be at least two different plants with this name in circulation. I have seen descriptions saying bronze orange. Mine is definitely red:
Here with a chicken:
Aster X Amethystinus Freiburg. It is described as a hybrid between A.ericoides and A.novi-angliae. Begins to bloom in November. It occupies a lot of space. For large gardens.
Pink mutations on Purleigh White. Two separate shoots in the clump. The frequency of mutations on these chrysanthemums is unbelievable.
Dark pink mutation on Bronze Elegans. I wish they mutated to other colour than pink. I have enough of Mei-kyo. Mei-kyo itself mutated last year to very dark near purple. Unfortunately that clump drowned in a terribly violent thaw.
Another shot of Schweizerland:
Enjoy! There are not many pictures left. |
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| Thanks, I did enjoy the late show. |
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- Posted by hostaholic2 zone 4 MN (My Page) on Fri, Nov 4, 11 at 22:23
| I also enjoyed the late show. Love Wonder of Staffa aster. I checked it out but doesn't look like it wold be reliably hardy here in the frozen tundra. |
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- Posted by plantmaven 8b/9a TX (My Page) on Sat, Nov 5, 11 at 15:40
| How fun to see the things blooming there. My childrens' father's ancesters were from Denmark. |
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| Yes I'll third that, a thoroughly enjoyable show. And it make me want to add to my garden. I was walking around the neighborhood and noting that many gardens have plants of all different types, but not in the same garden of course, like yours. I only have Echinaceas and Nepeta Walker's Low blooming, but next door they have roses, and up the street have dahlias. Yeona |
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- Posted by mantis__oh z6 OH (My Page) on Sat, Nov 5, 11 at 21:32
| Great to see your chrysanthemums. Poesie is cheerful and sparkling; Purleigh White, pristine yet mellow. |
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| Oooh! Love that mum Karminsilber! What a great color! Thanks for sharing the photos - nice to see stuff still looking so good! Dee |
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| One can't help but love 'mums as many of them bloom spectacularly even into November in my zone 5 when almost nothing else is flowering. I have two perennial mums and I would have more except they take up lots (too much) space. |
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| Some more shots: Chrysanthemum Mrs. Jessie Cooper.Selfsupporting and lovely.The buds are red but open to dark pink and lighten to mid-pink.
Aster Pink Star:
Rumpelstiltzchen and seedling
Chrysanthemum Carmine Blush. From England. Hardy and selfsupporting. One of the latest, smaller flowers than other singles.
Noid. Very late. Survives in sheltered places.
Chrysanthemum Accent . Should be supported. Very hardy and late(somehow it very often goes together). The only problem is that the latest ones miss blooming rather often.
Chrysanthemum Oury. Very hardy, very late. It loses its bottom leaves and grows rather slowly.
There are only a very few left. Two have not opened yet. |
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| I am still enjoying contributions to the garden by roses. In addition to scattered blooms from several different shrub roses, my rugosas' foliage has turned a warm shade of yellow, very attractive especially on a cloudy day. And there's a seed-grown miniature rose variety (R. chinensis minima) that surprised me the other day with clusters of vivid pink flowers (similar to these; actual flower size is about one-third of what the picture shows). I harvested a couple dozen small red hips from the plant and hope to have more seedlings growing on next spring. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Fri, Nov 11, 11 at 11:18
| Always love your pics, wies! Thanks for sharing these! Blooming here now... roses, azaleas, Plumbago, witch hazel, mums, wax begonias, lantana, Buddleia, Ageratum, confederate roses, asters, coral vine, goldenrod... |
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| Eric, I like to admire roses in other people's gardens. If I had a bigger garden I would also have a rose or two. But only with a strong scent. Somehow many roses they produce now are scentless or nearly so. You have to put your nose into the flower to detect the scent. I remember from my childhood that roses could be smelled at a long distance. Purpleinopp, such things are history here now. Now there is only 1 helianthus, 1 phlox, 3 asters , 1 lobelia and 1 persicaria blooming. The rest are chrysanthemums. |
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| We are mid-November now. Some more shots:
My own seedling chrysanthemum:
Twinkle:
Goldmarianne:
Nantyderry Sunshine at dusk
Carmine Blush:
Dernier Soleil:
Purleigh White at dusk:
Accent at dusk:
Innocence at dusk:
There are still a few left. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Tue, Nov 15, 11 at 9:57
| Love your pics and gardens. Thanks for sharing!! |
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| November 24th. We had 2 nights with freezing. All chrysanthemum flowers survived , but white Poesie turned to pink now. Some fresh shots: Chrysanthemum Mary Stoker. Hardy in open places and stands well. Flowers are relatively easily destroyed by wind+rain.
Rudbeckia Herbstsonne pushed some flowers from dry-looking stems
My own seedling. Very hardy, very late, tall, very well standing up. I love robust plants which radiate energy.
Aster Freiburg
Small wine red buttons, own seedling, hardy.
Chrysanthemum Manito. Hardy. Similar to Schweizerland, but later and taller and slower growing.
Weigela tree.
Not many pictures left. |
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| November 25th. Helenium Luc decided to push a new flower out of a dry stem. I wonder what it wants to prove... Here behind the phlox Herbstwalzer.
Mardi Gras made a green stem with a flower on it. How naive can they actually be?
Nuts on Davidia involucrata. I planted 3 nuts 17 years ago and 2 of them sprouted. One started blooming at the age of 15, the other one at 17. Gorgeous little tree.
I have discovered that one of my seedlings chrysanthemums is actually 2 different seedlings planted together. The small yellow buttons is the nice surprice.
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