Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?
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I leave the plant as is for the winter; the birds love to eat the seeds. Sometime in late March I cut it way back and as soon as it starts warming up it takes off and grows like crazy all summer. After a mild winter it may still look pretty green but it seems to do best with a hard pruning each year.
All about clematis:
https://gardenerspath.com/plants/flowers/clematis-types/
The Late Mixed Group contains the late-flowering, and often heavily scented, species such as C. flammula (aka fragrant virgin’s bower), C. mandshurica, C. potanini (old man’s beard), C. recta (ground virgin’s bower), and C. terniflora (sweet autumn clematis).
Vigorous climbers and scramblers, the robust vines flower from late summer into autumn, producing masses of small, one- to two-inch flowers in creamy white, mauve, and pure white followed by ornamental, silky seed heads.
Plants in this group grow between six and 30 feet, and most are hardy in Zones 5 to 9, with C. mandshurica being hardy down to Zone 3. All belong to Group 3 and require a hard pruning in late winter or early spring.
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And for scale, that arch is 55" across and about 90" tall. It's a cheap thing that you have to assemble, but it is steel so with a little bit of care they should last for quite a few years. I bought a whole bunch of them and used some of them to grow my beans on!
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We've had a couple of frosts these past 4 days yet my roses are blooming. Not big blossoms, but blossoms indeed.
This pretty white one is the one I accidentally strimmed down to nothing--not once, but twice!--this summer. I felt so bad. But look at it! It's come back and putting out flowers. I will be extra extra careful next year.
This is the one that lost most of it's canes last winter to frost damage. It's grown a whole set of new ones.
These two bushes are both sporting a flower.
Now is when I get really confused, though. I want to protect them for the winter and we've had a few frosts, but their leaves are still looking healthy and green. Do I wait another month before covering them? I don't feel I should cover them now when they've got blossoms and green foliage.
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Asters and mums here.
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@rustyfingers, I was perplexed when I first got here about how to upload images directly to this forum. It's not immediately obvious.
When you click on 'reply' to someone's post, you may get a mini version of the input editor. At the bottom of the input box is the "Quick reply" button. Immediately to the left of it is a diagonal double arrow icon. If you click that you'll get the full editor. On the full editor toolbar, the next-to-last icon on the right is the upload image tool.
If you're already in the full editor, just click the upload image icon (second to last on the right).
@Bernard said in Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?:
@rustyfingers, I was perplexed when I first got here about how to upload images directly to this forum. It's not immediately obvious.
When you click on 'reply' to someone's post, you may get a mini version of the input editor. At the bottom of the input box is the "Quick reply" button. Immediately to the left of it is a diagonal double arrow icon. If you click that you'll get the full editor. On the full editor toolbar, the next-to-last icon on the right is the upload image tool.
If you're already in the full editor, just click the upload image icon (second to last on the right).
@Bernard Thanks. I'll try it. I've been wanting to post pictures.
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A few things still brightening the garden
What's this?
Yarrow
Fuchsia
Verbena
Helibore
Prickly Bush planted as deterrent...
@AndyD Nice! You're lucky to actually have flowers in November.
Here everything has died back to the ground except for the odd anemone. Most of the trees and shrubs are devoid of leaves, except for an oak leaf hydrangea that is remaining stubbornly green and a fothergilla which has been slowly changing colors for weeks now.
