They still keep on blooming

[revmichael]

This morning I took a few pictures in my back garden.

My Rosa 'Madame Isaac Pereire' has now shot out a new bloom.
It still has it's very strong 'raspberry' perfume.




and an unnamed red hybrid tea rose that has been in my garden from before I moved here in 1979 has started to bloom again against the backdrop of my Liquidamber styraciflua which has 'finally' started to turn to autumn colour.





I just thought you'd like to see what is happening in Berkshire.
They promise us a hard frost tonight so I will have to see if my New Zealand Tree Fern will survive (it has done for the past six or seven years).


Now I must move some more tenderish plants into my greenhouse.

[Shuggie]

Do I spy a Wisteria on the right?

[shemlock]

Lovely blooms, michael, we have just a few perennial geraniums putting up an odd flower here and there. Most of the colour in our garden is berries. We have some small Rowans with white berries and the yew trees at the front of our house have made a carpet of red berries. We are sadly missing the greenfinches and chaffinches to feast on them.

[revmichael]

shuggie said:

Do I spy a Wisteria on the right?

It certainly looks like a wisteria Shuggie but the only one that I had died.
This is a plant that we saw growing in Greece whose name I have forgotten (but when it comes back to me I'll let you know).

I planted it some years ago and have never seen it again until earlier this year. It didn't bloom this year but it has obviously been keeping alive somehow, but not producing much foliage.

[ivy noidea]

Good morning Michael.

Tad frosty in Caaaaaaaversham this morning. Have your roses survived?

[revmichael]

ivynoidea said:

Good morning Michael.

Tad frosty in Caaaaaaaversham this morning. Have your roses survived?

Yes Ivy, they seem to be OK so far.

This is what that one looked like in the frost:



and my Dixonia Antarctica looks nice in the frost with the sun shining on it. It is mainly snow that makes the fronds go black. I don't cut them off until that happens and the old ones help to protect the crown of the plant.