What's Looking Good In October 2013

Thread for photos of plants looking good in October 2013.

For anyone wanting to look back here are some related threads:

What's Looking Good In September 2013

and what everyone thought was looking good in:

October 2012
October 2011
October 2010
October 2009

What's Looking Good Index

 

Doesn't time fly... Here we are in October already....

Begonia and busy lizzy are cheered on by MrH's greenman carving


Irish bell (molluccella) got started late, but better late than never ...


Aster - always there to brighten up the garden in the autumn


A couple more berries, Callicarpa


... and holly berries changing colour quickly

 

You've still got some good colour there HusH. The Irish Bell is quite unusual - looks like a spiders web!

 

Loving that! How hardy is it?

 

These look good to me - buds forming on my Tricyrtis Lasiocarpa (Royal Toad Lily) which were grown from seed.......................


And a solitary bud forming on my Passiflora alata...................

 

They're classified as half hardy annuals. I always grow mine from seed. They make very good dried flowers.

 

A few more;

Blue pollen on Fuchsia colensoi.....................


Abutilon x hybridum......................


Passiflora "Amethyst" continues to bloom!


And finally, Tricyrtis ishiana is at last being left alone by the earwigs..................


Close up of the inside.....................

 

Achillea Cerise Queen.

 

Aster 'Little Carlow' love this aster fab colour and never suffers from mildew

A new purchase Aster novi-belgii 'Chatterbox'

Don't know the name of this one given to me by my Dad many years ago, the colour is actually much darker but the flash kept going off.

 

Beautiful colours Simbad and healthy looking plants too!

 

The virginia creeper looking good at this time of year

 

I like Virginia creeper but have been wary about investing in one, do they create any surface damage to buildings and are they easy to keep under control please Mowgley?

 

I think that it can be invasive but mine gets a good cut every year.
Mines growing on trellis upto the bottom of the small window then it finds it's own way on the roof. No damage to my walls

 

Thanks Mowgley.