I have been out to take pics of my autumn daffs - sternbergia lutea. When we arrived here last October I thought they were crocuses but they are, in fact daffs and have leaves at the same time as the flowers which are even better this year in the group at the foot of the wall.
This pic of a group by the well shows the foliage more clearly.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I'm assuming both but can't really say as I'm just getting to know them. I've just found some sprouting in a pot of daff bulbs I dug up earlier this year and hadn't separated as they do look just like wee daff bulbs. I shall pot them up quickly and see what happens. They aren't growing in the best soil here - heavy clay that goes rock hard in dry spells. None in the looser, more fertile bits that have been pasture before.
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Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Been chilly here too r'girl - low single figures on quite a few occasions recently. I love that kind of weather though. Love your photos too - that light is beautiful
I take it your sweet peas start a bit earlier though? We don't have enough warmth to get them going until June, but they take quite a bit of cold at this time of year and early frosts in October don't bother them. The rough, wild, wet stuff gives them a battering then, and that's what normally does for 'em. Do you ever sow some later on as well, to keep the season going?
The whites never do quite as well, even in the ground, unless they have a good bit of shade. A few of my dark ones :- with a little red dianthus that has flowered for months
and in the 'hot border'
and flopping around - in a carefully managed way, of course () in front of the little cyclamen
Pyracantha all ready for the blackbirds
Spartina starting to flower - I think it's the first time it has flowered...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I take it your sweet peas start a bit earlier though? We don't have enough warmth to get them going until June, but they take quite a bit of cold at this time of year and early frosts in October don't bother them. The rough, wild, wet stuff gives them a battering then, and that's what normally does for 'em. Do you ever sow some later on as well, to keep the season going?
No, Fairy, they start about June here too. I don't sow them in autumn - mice and voles eat anything like them over winter and I don't have room under cover for ornamentals. You're probably right that it's the cold wind and rain rather than the frosts that's done for them. It's been pretty wild here in the last week.
And no - I love sweet peas in the summer - sweet peas, basil and clove pinks are what summer should smell like - but by autumn I'm looking for new things. A bit like I don't try to grow (or buy) strawberries in August. I like things to change as the seasons roll around
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Perki - some lovely flowers there . Your 'Thomas Edison' is looking MUCH better than mine which is rain sodden and bedraggled, poor thing. And those grapes
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Oops sorry why do they go upside down sometimes and not others?
Thanks Joyce the colour is still there but it is turning very fast!
A A Milne
Even upside down it looks good.
I have been out to take pics of my autumn daffs - sternbergia lutea. When we arrived here last October I thought they were crocuses but they are, in fact daffs and have leaves at the same time as the flowers which are even better this year in the group at the foot of the wall.
This pic of a group by the well shows the foliage more clearly.
They are lovely Obelixx. Do they self seed or spread by bulblets?
I'm assuming both but can't really say as I'm just getting to know them. I've just found some sprouting in a pot of daff bulbs I dug up earlier this year and hadn't separated as they do look just like wee daff bulbs. I shall pot them up quickly and see what happens. They aren't growing in the best soil here - heavy clay that goes rock hard in dry spells. None in the looser, more fertile bits that have been pasture before.
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Those are beautiful, Obelixx. I've tried to grow them here but I think they need more sun than I can arrange for them.
They're very bonny Obelixx.
Been chilly here too r'girl - low single figures on quite a few occasions recently. I love that kind of weather though. Love your photos too - that light is beautiful
I take it your sweet peas start a bit earlier though? We don't have enough warmth to get them going until June, but they take quite a bit of cold at this time of year and early frosts in October don't bother them. The rough, wild, wet stuff gives them a battering then, and that's what normally does for 'em. Do you ever sow some later on as well, to keep the season going?
The whites never do quite as well, even in the ground, unless they have a good bit of shade. A few of my dark ones :- with a little red dianthus that has flowered for months
and in the 'hot border'
and flopping around - in a carefully managed way, of course (
) in front of the little cyclamen
Pyracantha all ready for the blackbirds
Spartina starting to flower - I think it's the first time it has flowered...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Eupatorium covered in Butterfly's and beee's again
Rudbeckia GS grown a bit mad this year just over 4ft tall.
Grape Black Hamburg
Ensete - dahlia B llandaff
Dahlia City of Alkmar but slow to flower with Canna Durban
Dahlia David Howard - Canna Australia somewhere, it got lovely dark chocolate foliage.
Mary Rose - White Admiral phlox
Actea James Crompton - phlox franz schubert etc
Dahlia Thomas Edison
Ooooh I love this thread!
thank you for sharing everyone
Fairy I had to take my sweet peas out two weeks ago
obelixx how lovely and how unusual. I have never heard of autumn daffs
A A Milne
No, Fairy, they start about June here too. I don't sow them in autumn - mice and voles eat anything like them over winter and I don't have room under cover for ornamentals. You're probably right that it's the cold wind and rain rather than the frosts that's done for them. It's been pretty wild here in the last week.
And no - I love sweet peas in the summer - sweet peas, basil and clove pinks are what summer should smell like - but by autumn I'm looking for new things. A bit like I don't try to grow (or buy) strawberries in August. I like things to change as the seasons roll around
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Perki - some lovely flowers there
. Your 'Thomas Edison' is looking MUCH better than mine which is rain sodden and bedraggled, poor thing. And those grapes 
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”