Autumn Colour
By bulbaholic
19 comments
It is quite a dull day, today, but there is plenty of colour in the garden to cheer me up.
The leaves of the Acers are taking on a rich autumn hue and look splendid.
Rhododendron ‘Yellow Hammer’ is one of the hybrids that can be relied upon to give two displays a year, once in spring and now. Even better, the flowers last such a long time that it is almost permanently in flower.
Lurking behind a daphne I found this Cyclamen hederifolium. Note the pink noses on the flowers and the markings on the leaves.
Up the side of the shed, Clematis orientals has almost finished flowering and is now producing its amazing display of furry seed heads.
18 Oct, 2009
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Thanks, Louise. Actually, whilst the acers are relatively sheltered our whole garden is quite open and they can experience wind burn. Interestingly, one year it will be the acers in one part of the garden and the following a completely different part that will be affected.
18 Oct, 2009
I love the cyclamen BB....very prettily marked leaves...didn't know the flower ends are called noses! Your acers have a good shape to them.
18 Oct, 2009
The acers are a real blaze of colour like the cyclamen to.
18 Oct, 2009
Gorgeous Autumn colours am very jealous BB
Cant wait for my garden to have colours like these in the years to come
x x x
18 Oct, 2009
Actually Fluff, I don't know that 'nose' is a correct botanical term. It is a word I was using to indicate the bottom edge of the petal and I don't know if there is a correct name for this. Can any of GoYlands botanists help here, please?
18 Oct, 2009
Your acers are amazing. And once again I'm green with envy at a clematis. Your garden looks wonderful :o)
18 Oct, 2009
Gorgeous colour there Mr Moonbulb :) Your garden looks brilliant!
18 Oct, 2009
Nice to see your colourful garden up there in Scotland! Thanks for letting us in. :-))
18 Oct, 2009
I think the deeper pink centre of the cyclamen flower is called the 'mouth' BB. Don't know if that's botanical tho lol.Near enough to the nose, facially speaking !
18 Oct, 2009
Lovely autumn colours I like the clematis .
18 Oct, 2009
It doesn't matter if it's not correct BB...I knew what you meant anyway!
18 Oct, 2009
oh now you have prodded my curiosity. hope i can find out, but nose / mouth we knew what you meant. and very pretty it looked too. all the plants too not just the cyclamen.
18 Oct, 2009
Love the colour on the Acers BH.
Looks really nice overall.
18 Oct, 2009
Beautiful colours on the Acers, they look fantastic.
19 Oct, 2009
Lovely colours. I liked the little cyclamen
19 Oct, 2009
Trouble with GoY is there's so many [oooooooooooo] pictures that I'm running out of adjectives for "ooooh"!
20 Oct, 2009
I know what you mean, Orgratis, I keep using the same 3 adjectives - perhaps we should start a list somewhere of adjectives (nice ones, not nasty) we could use!
20 Oct, 2009
Sweet, wicked, nice-one, cool, triffic, smart...lol
20 Oct, 2009
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Those Acers look wonderful, you must have them in a nice sheltered spot.
18 Oct, 2009