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In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin in Motown, z6 on October 20, 2024, 12:45 am I'm trying again to re-post... Can anyone guess what the plants are in the pic below? They love blooming in cooler fall or spring weather. https://photos.app.goo.gl/VWRyqdKQFmFEwLxy9 Recently (late September), I posted a pic of The first Camellia sasanqua flower, of the season, to bloom in my garden. The variety is October Magic Rose. https://photos.app.goo.gl/yNNqbievt5ySXQzH8 In late September, I mentioned that I would post another pic of the plant, when more blooms opened. Since then, I moved the plant indoors to encourage more buds to open faster, rather than than spread the bloom cycle out, with intermittent freezes. Flower buds have opened all over the plant now. Several years ago, this was a 4 inch potted plant, that is now a 3 gallon. https://photos.app.goo.gl/h5aDhmyVHWsFQpkL9 If you have never gotten a whiff of CORKSCREW VINE blooms, you are missing a treat. Very sweet scented, they are. Snail vines are a close relative, but have no scent. Actuallly these plants are related to beans and peas, and grow like pole beans. Yet, unlike annual beans, I have had my snail AND corkscrew vines, for several years. https://photos.app.goo.gl/duVNZPvmTVwVpS2u8 - NEW PLANTS - Now that Halloween is getting close, I decided to add this BLACK BAT, Tacca chantrieri, plant to my collection. The leaves can get kinda large, like those on a Peace Lily, but have unique, "whiskery" blooms. In addition to "black", there are green and white types, as well. https://photos.app.goo.gl/FhMzwRZU9cYxziyn7 Below is a pic of a CRANBERRY COTONEASTER, plant I got. Cotoneasters are either semi or fully evergreen (BLE), hardy plants. They produce red berries, in fall, that birdies adore. The cultivar of this one is: Tom Thumb. https://photos.app.goo.gl/aPy3fJQNHaAiCVNJA

Alvin’’s garden Posted by Fred SC on October 20, 2024, 7:18 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Alvin, it is about pansy time in the garden for sure. The October Magic is nice. Little Tom Thum is a keeper. Corkscrew Vine is obviously in pea family. I like it. I bet the odor of the bloom is nice. We have had several light frosts but none have damaged the impatiens along my dry creek. I will post a picture. The Chrysanthemums are all blooming. Frost doesn’t hurt them either. I notice the Cyrilla is blooming like little clouds in vacant areas along some roads. Teo of my zHydtsnges macrophylla are still in bloom for second time.

Re: Alvin’’s garden Posted by Alvin, z6 on October 20, 2024, 12:22 pm, in reply to "Alvin’’s garden" Thanks, Fred. You nailed the Pansies. They truly are fall and spring plants. They are winter bloomers, as well, in mild climates. The long range forecast shows no hard frosts, for the rest of October, at least. incredible, when you consider the average first frost, here, was October 1st.

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