October in our garden: still floriferous
Oct 9, 2012 by Tangly Cottage
On October 6th, Erin and Diego Glenn were the very last of our garden visitors. But the garden put on a good show that went strongly through the middle of the month.
Diego in the bogsy woods
8 October by Allan’s shed; plants from The Basket Case Greenhouse
8 Oct, new plant table acquired from a neighbour one street over; we saw it for free and grabbed it.
8 October, Echinacea ‘Tomato Soup’
I planted this once upon a time in the McDonalds garden back when I did that job. It would be better for a restaurant that actually serves tomato soup.
8 Oct, Salvia Africana lutea. I hope to bring this through in the greenhouse.
8 October, Lochroma (Violet Tubeflower), a cool plant from Back Alley Gardens in Gearhart. Might make it in the cold greenhouse!
8 October, Lochroma (Violet Tubeflower)
8 October, Lochroma (Violet Tubeflower) with green Zinnia
8 October, Rudbeckia (maybe ‘Cherry Red’)
garden boat, 8 October
By October 8th, I had stopped deadheading the cosmos in the garden boat. My excuse was that birds like the seeds, but really, I was just sick of deadheading.
back garden, 8 October
above: Artemisia ‘Powis Castle’. Solidago ‘Fireworks” (a well behaved goldenrod), Aconitum (monkshood)
8 October, the cat bench
8 October, Nicotiana langsdorfii
This Nicotiana (flowering tobacco), painted sage and cosmos were the plants that were repeated throughout the garden from front to back.
shade bed, 8 October
Passiflora caerulea (passionflower)
Dicentra scandens by front porch, 8 October
and two presents on the front porch…the birthday basket from Nancy and a cute little tick tock sunflower from Jenna.
I snuck back into this post at the end of October to add a few more photos:
sweet peas still blooming on the deer fence, 15 October
Cosmos on October 20th
a black Scabiosa that I grew from seed, 20 October
23 October: I did manage to grow some red runner beans
and they were quite beautiful in pink and black…
I love the Lochroma – like a cross between Nicotiana sylvestris and foxglove, in bright purple – I’ve never seen anything like it! Where did you find it? I could only find it from a nursery in Texas (in large quantities)
I grew Nicotiana langsdorfii but it reseeded multiple times in one season and threatened to take over the garden – have you had that problem? I love the look of it, though.
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I found it at a nursery in Gearhart, Oregon, called Back Alley gardens. They get lots of cool plants, often from a supplier called Xera Plants. Cannot recall for sure but I think it had a Xera tag. It is hardy to 25.
Have never grown the N langsdorgii in such quantity before (from 4″ pots) so will be curious to see if it reseeds. I did not have that happen when I grew it a few years ago. I could always inflict some I mean share some with our clients.
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