Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day. November.

When all our remaining bloom are get to appear a bit sad and soggy , then we really appreciate the leaf which endure on brightening up the garden through the gloomy month . Christina ‘s Garden Bloggers ’ Foliage Day meme encourages us to take care at our leaf and its donation to the garden every calendar month .

I have a newNandinawith wine carmine foliation . It is calledNandina domestica‘Plum Passion ’

Nandina domestica‘Plum Passion ’

Nandina domestica‘Plum Passion’

If you look at it from underneath , it reckon even more jewel - like . Also still very cherry is thisAcer palmatum . NearbyCotinus‘Grace has lost most of its leaves now , but theAcercontinues to glow . I love bronze leave-taking at any fourth dimension of the twelvemonth . Cryptomeria japonica‘Elegans ’ is green in summer but in wintertime it snuff it this colour . Unfortunately there was no sun yesterday and it was rather misty when I took this photo , but it sparkle in the sunlight . ‘Cryptos ‘ imply obscure in Greek and ‘ meros’means part . So I consider this works sounds attractively mysterious . I love this grass , Uncina rubrawith the lovely colouredHeuchera ‘ Ginger Peach’which is a sister to ‘ Marmalade’The leave alone ofCornus sanguinea‘Midwinter Fire ’ are still hanging on by the big pool but when they pretermit they will bring out the lovely orange stem turn .

Cornus sanguinea ‘ Midwinter Fire ’

Every Autumn I like I had bought aGinkgofor its buttery , yellow leaves . In the meantime the common larch tree turns very chicken too .

Nandina domestica ‘Plum Passion’

Nandina domestica‘Plum Passion’

Larix decidua

It is expert to have plenty of shiny light-green leaves in the Autumn too , like this wildHelleborus foetidus . Its apple light-green flower are already begin to open .

Helleborus foetidus .

Another wild plant which I have never plant isDaphne laureola . It has small green , insignificant flowers which are not very exciting , but I like the leaves in winter .

Daphne laureola

The next tree;Podocarpus salignusis an evergreen which has go sign with me a pair of times and it never seems to grow very much . This tree amount from Chile and I believe it is the only place where it is native .

Podocarpus salignus

Some fern keep looking good in winter and my favourite is the very desirablePolystichumsetiferum‘Pulcherrimum Bevis ’ . This is quite difficult to find and I have been drooling over it in my admirer ’s garden for year . In the end she took pity on me and divide hers up so that I can have a bit too . That ’s what I call friendship . I will tell you the story of how this lovely fern was found . Polystichumis a aboriginal fern and this beautiful and very unusual form was found near Axmimster in Devon in 1876 . It was observe by a farm worker call in Bevis and he have it to a collector telephone John Wills who was naturally delighted with it . It was a one -off and has never been discovered since , so we owe thanks to the sharp eyes of Mr. Bevis . I desire he was suitably rewarded .

Polystichum setiferum‘Puclcherrimum Bevis ’

There are hollies all over this garden and they are a nuisance . Still , I guess the berry are quite useful at this time of the yr . This one is quite a good mounting form for one of my rose seedling . I am always growing totally inappropriate affair from seeded player . Plants that are too warm for my climate and will in all probability get kill by frost , like this treeEchium pininana . It would be lovely if it would produce towering spike heel of blue flowers next twelvemonth . I suppose it will be killed by frost though . I did wield to develop it years ago , but that was when I lived on the seacoast .

genus Echium pininana

Even crazier , and I really do n’t know what possess me , is the gargantuan treeDahliaimperialiswhich I acquire from seed a duet of years ago . It is tender , and comes from Mexico . My greenhouse is just not tall enough . It wants to get to 20 fundament and the pathetic thing is sample to escape through the roof . The bow are like bamboo canes .

Dahlia imperialis

If we had a strong enough mood to grow this outside it would be tremendous and have pretty pinkish flowers in November and December . I grow it in my far nursery with an apricot tree , a grape vine and various other borderline sturdy plant life . It looks like a giraffe being kept in a dog kennel .

My endearing Nipponese grass with the unsufferable name : Hakonechloa macra‘Alboaurea ’ will soon be break down , I am surprised that it has held on so belatedly .

Cornus sanguinea ‘Midwinter Fire’

Cornus sanguinea ‘Midwinter Fire’

Hakonechloa macra‘Alboaurea ’

I must save some foliage to show in the coming wintertime months but first this lovelyPittospermum tobira‘Variegatum ’ which dwell in a grass by my back threshold . It has fragrant peak in Spring but the leaf is adorable all yr around .

Pittospermum tobira ‘ Variegatum ’

Larix decidua

Larix decidua

And to finish here is some adorable foliage in the untimely place . The unloved ( by me ) hugePrunustree with the bragging flowers like blowsy pinkish knickers is losing its leaves incontinently all over the lawn . I think the Pianist should go and rake them up as he is so piercing on the tree .

Do link in with GBFD and show us what foliation is cheer you up through the gloomy month of November . If you go over to Christina atMyhesperidesgardenyou will see what others are enjoy at the moment .

Helleborus foetidus.

Helleborus foetidus.

56 Responses toGarden Bloggers’ Foliage Day. November.

You have loads of gorgeous foliage there … very gullible too still . I think the combo that caught my centre was the grass and Heuchera….beautiful !

Well , the Prunus foliage on the ground is very pretty with its mixed color ! You could likely mow it into the grass as a nice fertilizer – actually , the carpet of leaves does n’t look too duncical . I also enjoyed the Heuchera / Uncina combination ! And the Acer and Nandina are stunning !

Funnily enough I was look at that very same nandina online last night Chloris and debating whether to go for it or another form . I was going to settle today but am still dither and will probably pother more after reading your mail service 🙂 It is such a mythic colour . I like the effect of the prunus leave carpeting the ground but then it ’s not me who has to chew over removing them .

Daphne laureola

Daphne laureola

I get it on the colouring variations of your twilight foliage , Chloris ! I ’ve never run across a Nandina that shade of purple – I ’ll have to scout about to see if it ’s uncommitted here . I actually have 2 of the plant you presented : the Uncinia and the Pittosporum . regrettably , the Pittosporum was used as hedge fabric here and has lose its natural shape ( and tends to develop a pitchy contraband mold , perhaps due to the constant sheering ) . I laughed about your giraffe in the greenhouse – it seems that all gardeners do have an unsatiable need to push the bound of our climate .

Yet again a lovely selection of plants from your garden , Chloris . Like everyone else , I ’ve fallen for your Nandina – the usual ‘ Fire Power ’ seems to be everywhere these days so to see a more subtle cultivar is lovely . Will it be evergreen in a balmy wintertime ? I seem to recall the Nandina shrub at college keep on their colour through the winter …

Podocarpus salignus