Whats Looking Good October

With the unexpected rain over night, the garden looked even more autumnal.

If you are wondering why the Lilac tree and Tree fern are protected with bricks: That bloody fox is digging all over the gardens (neighbour told me her garden looks like a mole labyrinth)

The Tree fern has developed 17 fronds this year. Each of the leaves is 1 metre long!



The Acer is changing colour.



One of the Cosmos plants is still going.



Viburnum in the foreground changes colour too.



I had moved the primula to the bed by the crap apple tree and they are happy.



Campanula Takon Blue



Rain drops on Grass



The Heleniums are in their last stage



Still flowering the Hardy Geraniums

 

Cotinus Grace has taken the spotlight in my garden.

 

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae Andenken am Alma Potschke

 

A good memory and typing skills for that one @NigelJ .

 

And another example of taxonomists having a laugh . I think of them having a pub session on Friday. "so what mouthful shall we change a simple name to? I know - aster can become symphiotrichum."

 

I'd tell them to get stuffed, its only a few letter different.

 

@Plantminded Don't you just love copy and paste.

@CarolineL They have really taken a wrecking ball to Asters see here to see what asters really are Plants of the World Online | Kew Science
Or here more intelligible Aster (genus) - Wikipedia

 

Oh good grief @NigelJ - all those New World species now have horrible names!

 

@CarolineL I agree with you about the horrible names, the remaining Asters are Eurasian species.
As to where they get the horrible names from I really don't know.
I'd have happily stuck with Asters just as most nurseries have done. Which is another problem the taxonomists change the names and apart from botanists the majority of gardeners just ignore them.

 

Whatever happened to Michaelmas Daisies?

 

Michaelmas daisies were part of my childhood, then when I started growing my own garden the nurseries called them Asters.

 

I've just tried to post some photos maybe I need to do them one at a time??

 

Next.

 

Maybe it's the salvia pic it didn't like here goes. All very odd, they all worked this time. How do others manage to post some many in a group??