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Show us what’s growing out of season in your garden
Jacquimcmahon
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So I went out and took some photos of the “unusual” growth on my terrace. I found quite a lot ranging from the odd flower which has opened too early, to re growth of plants which were happily dropping this years foliage and self seeded things which would normally given me early spring colour… here are a couple of collages of the plants. 
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
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I kept seeing something cream/white near the self seeded rowan in the back corner of my garden, but forgetting to investigate. Yesterday I went and had a look, and it's a flowering stem.
I've still got Crocosmia in flower, and the last flower on one of Jap. anemones is hanging on in defiance.
These were all taken at the end of October, but still look much the same apart from the foliage on the Amelanchier.
Tip Top Mahogany nasturtium - they fade to that burnt orange, and I like both stages.
Clematis Star of India still flowering, but it hasn't been there long, so it may be different next year.
Not an unusual sight, but I love the rowans at this time of year. Another present from the birds, and the foliage is gone now, but so much for them leaving the pink and white berries till later in winter. The starlings have been at this one and taken loads off it so there's not many left
The ivy is flowering nicely too
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have never seen so many berries on Ivy before, I grow Hedera helix Ice Cream difficult to find but a lovely plant.
Love that nasturtium, and good to know it's still going strong with you.
I see that Chiltern seeds do it .... and I have a few things I want from them so that will be going in the basket.
I've got some huge dark green glazed pots with agapanthus in, so the nasturtiums should look fab trailing around the edge of those next summer.
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The bronzes and golds work very well with that nasturtium, and yes it was Chilterns that I got it from @Bee witched, although I saved some seed last year too. I had a similar one whose name I can't recall [Black Magic maybe?] but they didn't have it, and neither did anyone else, so I tried it and it's been really good. I've got bronze fennel and a few other things in there, and a pot of crocosmia to go in too, and that Uncinia on the corner is a great foil, and self seeds. I've got another patch farther along but there's a few rogue orange ones in with them which have taken over a bit. I like orange so it's not a problem.
The clematis is a fairly recent purchase @Jacquimcmahon, but I had to move it from the site it was in as it wasn't thriving well enough. It was a bit too shady. It's been quite happy there. Flowers are small, but it may be because it's only been in a short time
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Plus these are in flower too, the blue and white bee delphinium are never this late
Don't think I've ever had Achillea 'Moonshine' flowering this late before.
Helenium 'Mardi Gras' in the same bed
The last of the Persicaria 'Dharjeeling Red' flowers
And this Cirsium rivulare that I've tried to kill off by digging it out but it's taken to flowering again in it's temporary pot.
This Agastache 'Blue Boa' has recently put new smaller flowers out near the base
And the Anthemis 'E.C. Buxton' still has the odd flower
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful