It's October now, and we're still seeing flowers - some that are new for the fall, and some that just have a long blooming season. I'm particularly interested in newcomers, but hangers-on will be fine here too. None of these came with labels, so I've been making assumptions. Corrections are welcome. Here is Berberis x media 'Charity', with fruits and flowers. I think this might be Daphne translantica, which I have never heard of - I picked this name based on what I read about blooming dates. I don't feel very confident of this ID. Some Araliaceae are blooming now. Here is Fatsia japonica. and what looks to me like x Fatshedera lizei ‘Annemieke’. I'm very fond of this plant - I pass by it often, and it always looks excellent.
I have a x Fatshedera lizei ‘Annemieke’ which I don't think is getting enough sun. The one you photographed @wcutler is beautiful. Here is my favorite late blooming perennial - Ajania pacifica (Gold and Silver Chrysanthemum), just starting to bloom now. This photo was taken on November 14 a few years ago. It is not only very attractive but also very tough. The leaves are gorgeous all season. What's not to love?
Some color is starting to reappear in my gardens... Clematis 'Freckles' - evergreen and flowering from November to March Hardy cyclamen Hardy cyclamen Hardy cyclamen Hardy cyclamen
I love the cyclamens, but it's their leaves I get excited about! Speaking of leaves, here is one of the first plants I saw on entering Dart's Hill Garden in Surrey last weekend, BC: Elaeagnus × ebbingei ‘Gilt Edge’. This is the proper blooming time. It's the leaves that are showy, but the flowers are fragrant enough to make you seek them out.
Viburnum tinus has new flowers and also fruits now. This is the same plant that I posted for ID in 2009 at Viburnum? Maybe rigidum or tinus?. Ron B suggested that it was the cultivar 'Compactus'. I was sure this Symphyotrichum lateriflorum in Alexandra Park, two blocks from where I live, was a new plant for me, but only last year I posted the cultivar 'Lady in Black': Appreciation: - Symphyotrichum lateriflorum 'Lady in Black' I was just as excited about this one. Nearby are some purple asters. Maybe two different kinds. I don't know where to begin with aster IDs. I assume these have been blooming for a while, but they look pretty fresh. And the Dahlia coccinea still look pretty showy. [Edited - see name correction in Ron B's posting below] Chrysanthemums are around now too. I found one online that looked exactly like this one, but it wasn't named.
@Nadia White Rock has come up with an ID for this plant we saw at Dart's Hill Garden last Sunday - Eupatorium rugosum. Maybe the cultivar 'Chocolate', since the leaf undersides are closer to burgundy than to light green. Eupatorium rugosum (Fall Poison, Richweed, tremetol, White Snakeroot) | North Carolina Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
The dahlia is one like 'Bishop of Llandaff'. Whereas Dahlia coccinea is said to look like this: Dahlia coccinea 'True Wild Form'
Good morning, I know this is not meant to be coming into flower on the 23rd October, but it is about to. My Lonicera Strawberries and cream.
Here are two plants with flowers at the West End Community Centre. Grevillea victoriae, which I posted for ID one year at Shrub with racemes of small tubular orange fruits (or maybe they're flowers). If anyone has a photo of mature fruits on these, I'd love to have you post them in that thread. and Arbutus unedo
I'd have posted these Aconitum photos two weeks ago when I took them, but I didn't know what they were. Douglas Justice's November 2020 in the Garden - UBC Botanical Garden, which is about plants flowering now, has helped me to identify them, though I don't know what species or cultivar they are. The stalks are around my height, well over a meter tall. There are two species shown in the blog. Botany Photo of the Day shows one of them: Aconitum uchiyamai.
Strawberry tree and Hummingbirds, not something you hear in conversations in my part of the world in gardening circles!!!! Again,thank goodness for this forum!!! And thankyou P.
I've been seeing a lot of Choisya shrubs with some flowers, but this group of Choisya ternata looked amazing last week. The Rudbeckia (?) at my building still look fresh as daisies. This was taken a week ago.
On my way to our son this morning with a food parcel, Lol. I saw this so stopped the car to take a photo. Berberis darwinii. So cheerful and bright.
Took this just as the sun was going down after a very soggy and cloudy day here in Southern England. It certainly cheered me up to see it however small. Osmanthus hetroph purpureus
This was looking very pretty and cheerful on our walk this morning. A Malva sylvestris or Common mallow nestling in some long grass.
I don’t have a daphne - but would it be blooming around now or in a few weeks at the coast? Then there is the pale pink rhododendron that blooms Dec Jan at the coast (I always forget its name - it’s mature (10yr) size is approx 4 x 4 feet .... Jingle Bells? EDIT to correct myself — the one I think of is Christmas Cheer American Rhododendron Society Blog
I don't know them very well, but this seems to have very small leaves. If it's Daphne x transatlantica, it should have been blooming all fall and will stop blooming now. I wasn't going to post this, didn't get a photo of the flowers in focus.
Walking down a lane near home, I noticed a large Camellia loaded with blossoms and buds. I haven't seen many fall-blooming Camellias and noted that no one has previously posted any in this thread; so, here is a picture from today. I checked on the Web and found that there are quite a few fall-blooming Camellias, but they do not seem to be very common around here.