Whats Looking Good October

The window box at the front - faces NE,


Jenny namaste

 

The Astrantia has one little flower stem.



The Geum starts again.

 

Some photos from the garden this month:
Evening primrose still offering food to the lower numbers of pollinators about.

Courgettes still producing.

Some fuchsia in bloom.


Also posted a video of how things are looking this month here.

Happy gardening!

 

Shame about your chillies/greenhouse @shiney , but I'm sure you've dealt with worse situations. It'll be great to have your new one done and everything growing on again. The leaf/grass compost will be brilliant.
I'm admiring your 'very perfect' Hylotelephiums/Sedum spectabiles [Autumn Joy?] - and how non slug damaged they are! I love them for this time of year, but I always have to put them where I can hide the foliage with something else, whether in the ground or potted. They get annihilated here. I have one in the revamped border next to the pergola, and it's not supported, so it hangs over the edge. Works well!
I'm still thinking of getting the white one again. It's very pretty, and I had it in a previous garden.

 

@shiney - it's always the way isn't it! I forget half the plants I have, or where I've put divisions etc. I'm currently wondering where I put a section of Solomon's Seal that I'd moved earlier this year. It was in a pot, but can I find it? Ehh....no...
I don't know if there are several white varieties now, but I don't remember there being more than one when I had mine. Wish I'd taken cuttings and grown them on, and I could have taken plants with me to every house I subsequently moved into. Such is life. I might see if the nursery I use has it - that's where I possibly got it to start with.

 

The other week while weeding under a buddleja I found a Dahlia merkii I'd thought had disappeared a couple of years ago after being put in the ground in that general area. Will have to mark area with cane and label for next year.

 

Hope that survives for you @NigelJ . I've done the same with a little Erythronium that someone gave me years ago. It's seeded into a border, but I had another piece I moved, and it had been in a pot for ages. I planted it recently near the pond, and it has a little tripod of canes around it so that I don't forget it's there.
I took some photos of my oak leaf hydrangeas the other day
This one is under the front window - faces roughly north west. The mild weather has meant it's still flowering nicely, so it's just starting to change colour.


and this one is at the other end of the front garden, about 30 feet away, facing roughly south east. Gets lots of sun as the site's pretty open to the west


I like having the contrast between two identical shrubs, bought at the same time, but the 2nd one was moved a few years ago from the back garden, and hasn't yet flowered again, while the other one was moved a long time before that and flowers well. It shows how the same plant can behave quite differently depending on the site etc.

 

You're lucky with the erythronium @fairygirl ! Every time I try with it, I fail. I used to have "pagoda" in previous garden, but I wanted dens canis or the white one. But they don't want me!
The sun has made a huge difference to those hydrangeas - the red is gorgeous.

 

I can't claim any credit for this as we bought it yesterday. Looks great though even if I say so myself.

 

Not in my garden but Petworth House Park last weekend.

 

I don't know which Erythronium I have @CarolineL , but I think it's probably Pagoda. It just grows/seeds here quite happily. I don't do anything special. The other one is in an east facing[roughly] border, which gets some sun early on for a short while in summer,dappled shade athe rest of the time in summer. The potted one was in the narrow border along the back fence, facing north west, and only got sun very late on in the day during summer. Other than that, shade for both, and surrounded by lots of other plants. They're supposed to like it drier when dormant, but neither of mine are in dry conditions for any length of time.
There's a white one in a quite exposed corner site in a garden near me. It must get reasonable amounts of sun in summer, although other planting and houses/trees etc will give it some shade. It's roughly north facing. I also wanted one of the whites but never got round to it. After I saw that one, I felt it would be possible, despite the info saying many of them are difficult.
That hydrangea doesn't mind sun, and the colour is enhanced by it, although I doubt full on summer sun in hot parts of the country would be so easy. The ground there doesn't dry out at all either, and it's in the path of all the prevailing weather so gets plenty of moisture etc. The one under the window is more sheltered but it doesn't make any difference to it's growth. One of my favourite shrubs.

 

Waited and waited but here it is , cup & saucer flower climbing our trellis out the back and a few ‘Ragged Robin ‘on the windowsill out the front on our living room window.