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Late bloomers

ManderMander Posts: 349
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What do you have in your garden that is blooming very late?

I placed loads of mixed flower seeds in February (the kind that comes in a packet from the supermarket with the words "easy to grow!" in big letters) and they have all been very slow to grow. No flowers at all in spring or summer but the cosmos and a couple of snap dragons are finally starting to bloom. The fuchsia is still covered in flowers, and one of the flowering quince shrubs has new flowers. Oddly these are all on the shadier north side of the house. Everything that gets sun on the south side is mostly finished.
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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I've still got fuchsias and salvias in full flow, a few dahlia flowers (I got lazy with the deadheading a couple of weeks ago or there'd be more), some pinks, penstemons, roses and a few hardy geraniums hanging on, as well as the things that don't start until Autumn - cyclamen, ceratostigma, and a chrysanthemum. And my sarcococca that was planted out last spring after several years in a pot has lovely shiny black and burgundy-coloured berries.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I have some Astrantia in flower. Never had that before at this time of year.
  • AthelasAthelas Posts: 946
    edited November 2021
    Not exactly late, as they were in flower pretty much from the start of the growing season, but long blooming — photos taken today:

    Campanula ‘Campala’


    Dianthus ‘Purple Wedding’


    Lobelia ‘Waterfall Blue’


    Rose ‘Roald Dahl’ just starting a new flush

    Cambridgeshire, UK
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Primrose - but it might be really early🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    sweet williams (have been flowering all summer), a chrysanthemum that always flowers in November, rose 'blue moon', coronilla glauca citrina (lovely fragrance), and the mahonia has started flowering in the last week.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    Two primroses, a single penstemon,  a scattering of Hot Lips and thickly covered stems of bright purple berries on my Callicarpa. It is stunning this year. A couple of spindly marigolds, so cheerful. There are still flowers on the scented leaved geranium and the vermillion Nerine sarniensis are lovely.
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    Scabious Kudo Pink, Rose Pink Flower Carpet, Alstroemerias, Daphne Eternal Fragrance, Helenium Waltraut, Anemone Ruffled Swan, Schizostylis/Hesperantha, Salvia Cerro Potosi, Geranium Rozanne.
  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 778
    Apparently the weather is turning on Sunday so that might do for them!
    I'm a runner (and a sad case) and all my runs are recorded with temperatures. I went today - 12°c and I looked at a run I did exactly one year ago - 6°c, so we're at double last year's temperature!
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Hot lips salvia, some purple linaria I cut down ages ago, having a second flowering,  a rose on the pergola. I picked a handful of ripe tomatoes this morning. Outside. They were in the mini polytunnel, but the cover blew off a couple of months ago, ripped because it was tied on, and I gave up on it.  I would have expected the frost we had to kill them off, or the deer to have eaten them, but they are trying hard. I picked some orange ones that grew from a seedling that came up in the beans. I never got round to pulling it out, and it produced quite a lot considering it didn't even germinate until June.  WE have had a frost, enough to blacken the dahlias, so fruiting tomatoes and even some late polka raspberries are amazing.
  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290
    I have a few roses, pelargoniums, salvia, sweet williams and nerines in flower ATM. Best however are the alstromeria; the flower stems last very long in the plant as well as in the vase. Last week, I had a (freak) oriental lily open. It was quickly de-petalled by the wind.
    Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

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