Some last hurrah from me. Cosmos just finishing. The abutlion hasn't looked better all year. It's probably best red I have in a garden with a lot of red. The dark intensity of the colour doesn't show so well in this picture. Nabob is glossy blood talon red. Quite extraordinary. There aren't many flowers I know where the petals are actually shiny, but this is one. They reflect the light. It's new to me this year - a guilty, exotic pleasure. I resisted for years.
Fleecing the abutilon Nabob? Well, that's the question. I have a neighbour that has grown it outside for years and says it's been fine. It's flowering better, at the moment, than it has all year, as I moved it from a dry bed to a pot (in the shade !) with the intention of putting it to bed for winter. In our area we haven't gone down much below zero yet and it seems very happy. If we get low temps or snow is forecast, yes I would probably fleece it, but I'm so enjoying the flowers at the moment - and that shining dry-blood red.
I planted some winter flowering calendula seeds some years ago. I was astonished today to see it actually flowering in winter. No one more surprised than me. It doesn't die well, which is a shame.
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Hard frost here today, the garden looks magical with all the glistening spiderwebs.
sounds like a criminal activity or a euphemism.