Six on Saturday. Early Autumn.

Well , here we are back in the UK and summer is definitely over and tonight we transfer the alfileria . The garden is over - run with weed and the water bottom is overflowing and I miss the fall enthral of the many trees and bush I used to grow in my late much big garden .

But there is still plenty to relish . Every yr I attempt to beat the end - of - summer blue angel by cheering myself up with my two fall favourites ; chrysanthemum and nerines . In my old garden I hadchrysanthemumseverywhere and I quite often wrote aboutthem . I brought plenty of cuttings with me and many of them are brandish but I seem to have lost quite a few too . Some of them are not yet in efflorescence but there are plenty looking great and making a overnice chassis to my wintertime garden . Chrysanthemum ‘ Mavis Smith ’ was found by a appendage of Suffolk Plant Heritage in a garden she natter for her Pilates lesson . It is very vigorous and I love its quill - like efflorescence . In the picture it is growing with the pretty pink and blank ‘ Jolie Rose ’

Chrysanthemum‘Mary Stoker ’ is an old pet ; it was bred by Amos Perry in 1942 . It has lovely soft - apricot tree flowers .

Chrysanthemum‘Mavis Smith’ andChrysanthemum ‘Jolie Rose’

Another authentic and vigorous chrysanthemum is ‘ Mrs Jessie Cooper ’ . I am not certain who this lady was but her namesake has the deep , shining pinkish flowers which shine in the fall light . Having said that this photo really does n’t do it justice .

I do n’t know why more the great unwashed do n’t grow chrysanthemums , nothing can tally them for fall color .

And now on to my other passion which I have already written about quite a snatch on this web log . Nerinescome in so many luminous shades of pink and white and even red that for me they are all addictive . Some of them are hardy but it always seems that the most glittering , fulgid colours are not hardy and have to overwinter in the greenhouse . They seem to have take aim over the whole of my scaffolding because now and then I separate them or grease one’s palms new 1 and I also have quite a few seedling come on which I am very unrestrained about . I also have a duad of amarines which are like huge nerines because they are a cross between nerines and amaryllis .

Chrysanthemum‘Mavis Smith’ andChrysanthemum ‘Jolie Rose’

Outside in the gardenNerine undulata’Seaton ’ looks far too touchy to be hardy but it lives quite blithely outside . I have several wad of it in the glasshouse just in case though . I wrote about this in a former post but this is the story again . I have always think my specimen was even more beautiful than anyNerine undulataI have ever see . A few year ago , I talk to Clive Boyce who gave me this flora more than twenty years ago . Clive used to be President of the Alpine Garden Society and he knows a dependable plant when he sees one . obviously thisNerine undulata is indeed exceptional . It had been growing in his female parent ’s garden in Seaton , Devon since at least 1945 . Clive discern that it is much o.k. than the common Nerine undulataand he submit it to the RHS for assessment . After wide trial it was support as a Modern variety of exceptional virtue . Clive suggest the name ofNerine undulata ‘ Seaton ’ as that it is where it originated . It is a perquisite to own it and it is my favourite nerine .

Another fall delight is my collection of different cyclamen . In the garden I haveCyclamen hederifoliumin pink and lily-white .

But I have some less hardy one in lot . Each class I grow one or two dissimilar salmagundi . The bother is that when I moved star sign the label disappear or got muddled up and I contend to tell them apart . As well as beautiful little helicopter flowers they all have such beautiful leaves .

Chrysanthemum‘Mavis Smith’ andChrysanthemum ‘Jolie Rose’

My next flora does n’t make my heart beat faster , in fact I forget all about it when it is not in bloom . But becauseSerratula tinctoria.var.seoaneiflowers so late in my crushed rock garden and its little knapweed flowers are so dainty I am always glad to see it . I read that it blooms in August and September but in my garden it is a welcome October kickshaw .

Sternbergia luteais a delicious fall flowering lightbulb which I have in my French garden too . It flower well as long as it gets mess of sun and has a well - drained stain . It has dainty glossy leaf as well as cheerfulness - yellow heyday .

I think I will wind up with a tree . I have n’t gravel way for many trees but I do have anAcer griceumin my wintertime garden . I grow it for its gorgeous cinnamon - colored bark , but its leaf has a good fall color . I planted it less than 18 month ago so it is doing very well .

Chrysanthemum ‘Mary Stoker’

So there we have it my Six on Saturday . OK , there are more than six plants , but only six varieties so I have n’t chicane really . Do check out Jim ’s blog , Garden Ruminationsto discover the world of Six on Saturday nut .

23 Responses toSix on Saturday. Early Autumn.

Still much to love , indeed . The Mums are strikingly beautiful , and your other flora are full and profuse . Welcome base !

Beth @ PlantPostings.com

Chrysanthemum ‘Mrs. Jessie Cooper’

Six on Saturday. Early Autumn.