Ornamental Cucumber
Scary season is fast approaching, and we have no end of odd, creepy, and downright frightening plants for you to enjoy!
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Crocosmia
This week, it’s all about Red. Now, I love the dusky maroons and pale roses found around the Gardens, particularly in leaves and grasses, but this week, we are talking Fire Engine, Stop Sign, catch-my-attention Red. Take a look:
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Hardy Fuchsia (Fuchsia magellanica)
These pictures were all taken exactly one month ago: most years we have a dusting of snow by early October, and light frosts, but this amazing year the autumn wore on and on. But by Thanksgiving, winter rules the roost. Each year I am astonished at how utterly the landscape transforms with the first hard frosts: one day things look almost summery, with fuchsias dangling in the gentle breeze, annuals in prime form and blazing fall color everywhere. Abruptly, the leaves fall, the tender plants are crisped and hardy plants hunker down.
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Zinnia 'Profusion'
I’ve always been a gardener who has looked down my nose a bit at annuals—those flowers that need replanting every single year. Aren’t they a bit pedestrian, invented for those folks who don’t have the good sense to buy a perennial and watch it come back year after year?
Except that they are gorgeous.
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