It's the time of year, that I take cuttings from my Double Rosebud Impatiens and New Guinea Impatiens,, to root in water. After rooting, and potting up, they usually become sizeable starts for next spring.

I also planted some spinach seeds to begin growing, before winter. Spinach is hardy enough to overwinter, here, and should provide a very early picking (earlier than spring started plants, which are usually harvested in late May).

I also set out a 'Nikita's Gift Hybrid Persimmon tree, I had potted up, in the spring, to get a little bigger. For anyone unfamiliar with persimmons, they are temperate fruit trees. There is a native American type, or Diospyros virginiana, the fruits of which are astringent until mushy. There is an Asian type of persimmon, known as Diospyros kaki, Some are also astringent until mushy, but some Asian forms are sweet and non-astringent, while crisp as an apple. Nikita's Gift' was formed by crossing an American persimmon with an Asian type.



POKE SALLAT in fall..Most of the ripe berries are gone. I guess some critter ate them:


https://photos.app.goo.gl/LMsGayHqc9LXY9eE8



Two NEW palm seedlings I potted up. One is a FOXTAIL PALM or Wodyetia bifurcata (on the right), and the other is a FISHTAIL PALM, or Caryota mitis (on the left):


https://photos.app.goo.gl/ocVyJVeNRFeZDJuN9



AUTUMN CROCUS TIME !!

Unlike its spring counterpart, autumn crocus flowers with no foliage, similar to how autumn Cyclamen flowers. This type of fall Crocus is called COLCHICUM. The variety of this one is called 'Waterlily'...


https://photos.app.goo.gl/qvmdu9W3ejsBFV6u9



The SILVER DOLLAR PLANT or Lunaria annua, seed pods have ripened in the foliage of Motherwort...


https://photos.app.goo.gl/dpmGyp337hQydKBS9



TREE TOMATO/Tamarillo or Cyphomandra betacea fruits are developing. Tamarillos are a tropical fruit tree. The fruits usually ripen, indoors, in winter...


https://photos.app.goo.gl/7PWu53zxjDPZyEhv5



The BLEEDING HEART VINE, or Clerodendrum thomsoniae , is blooming:


https://photos.app.goo.gl/MCgYbFNVt6nYojJTA



JAMAICAN CHERRY or Muntingia calabura, is just beginning to ripen. The Jamaican Cherry is a tropical fruit, that is also called the Strawberry Tree, because its flowers look like those of strawberries...


https://photos.app.goo.gl/DTGirY3bQojBHqEfA



The COONTIE, or Zamia integifolia
is beginning to set a cone. For anyone unfamiliar with this plant, it is a type of Cycad...


https://photos.app.goo.gl/kxP5XJ9vrN7jHpUg9



The leaf buds are juuust beginning to break on the BOOJUM TREES, in the forefront of the pic, below. Boojums are xeric plants, that are related to Ocotillo, and are known, botanically, as Fouquieria columnaris. These plants go leafless in summer, and re-leaf in the fall..


https://photos.app.goo.gl/qxAgDp7zK9243yER9



ORANGES are developing!


https://photos.app.goo.gl/4szoRDU3WTNMaM1o6



The berries on the TARTARIAN HONEYSUCKLE have ripened! Birds love these...


https://photos.app.goo.gl/Zhknyo6GwhP1oy47A



The ABUTILONS, or flowering maples, continue to bloom amongst the surrounding foliage...



https://photos.app.goo.gl/bvHCEnBwXnrsmYwEA