Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day. September

Most of my foliage is looking very sorry for itself after such a hot , dry summer . Some of the leaves on the Acer face quite crispy and my weepingCericiphyllum japonicum‘Pendula ’ has shut up shop completely . I point out a abbreviated whiff of the distinctive toffee apple olfactory perception of its strike leaves and then they were live on .

Cerdicphyllum japonicum‘Pendula ’

I go for it will be all right next yr , I lie with this little tree diagram , but it does n’t take kindly to drought .

Cerdicphyllum japonicum‘Pendula’

Next month is the exciting one for bonfires of brilliant leaf colour . So far the only things that have color in up in nicely areHamamelis x intermedia ‘ Arnold Promise ’ .

Hamamelis x intermedia‘Arnold Promise ’

And the Virginia Creeper , Parthenocissus quinqefoliawhich is sprawling all over the old garage roof along with the neighbour ’s Mile a Minute Vine . Both of these horrors should come with a health word of advice , they have designs on the whole garden . They have jump off the roof and and are trying to soak up a nearby apple tree and anybody who stand still long enough . nautical mile a Minute Vine , Ballopia baldschuanicais a relative of Japanese Knotweed and should n’t be reserve in a garden , I do n’t know why nurseries sell them . But these horror do attend pretty at this meter of the twelvemonth twine with the ivy and completely enshroud the service department and sure-enough stables along here .

Cerdicphyllum japonicum ‘Pendula’

Cerdicphyllum japonicum‘Pendula’

The bargain basementPhormium‘Rainbow Queen ’ which I embed in the wintertime garden is already quite big . I hope it does n’t get too big . I once stress to dig up a huge , ripe phormium . It was like trying to dig up concrete with a nail file . The tree with the lovely cinnamon bark on the leftover isPrunus serrula . I am proud of at how quickly this tree is maturing .

In the scope you could probably see the treeDahlia imperialis . I have had two of them in the green house for two or three yr now . They never bloom because the first frost cuts them down . If they bloomed it would be in November . I thought I would found one of them in the garden and see what materialise . They are far too big for the glasshouse , it is like keeping a camelopard in a rabbit hutch . They farm to about 8 - 10 metres . They would be skilful for an exotic garden because of the striking foliage . I turn them from seminal fluid . I ca n’t guess why now .

Dahlia imperialis

Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Arnold Ppromise’

Hamamelis x intermedia‘Arnold Promise’

This part of the garden has too many scraggy elder trees which I take to get rid of . you may in all probability see a twosome in the setting . Horrible things , I know they are supposed to guard against witches , but there ca n’t be that many witches around here . Anyway , I still have trade protection , because I shall surely keep the lovelySambucus‘Black Lace ’ with its striking black foliage .

I retrieve it look ripe with the Hydrangea andPersicaria amplexicaulis‘Atrosanguinea ’ . I was given this Hydrangea as a pot plant last year . It has lived quite happily in the garden since then . In my soil I ca n’t suppose why the blue is still so blue . I take this exposure a week or so ago , it is looking a act more autumnal now .

Now for my pièce de résistance . I have blogged about my son’sjetty gardena couple of times and show his fabulous tree fern . He is addicted to them and had 12 at the last count . This June , he and Beatrice came around and get me a most grand present . Not one , but three tree fern , Dicksonia antartica . They were just stumps with no roots or frond . He manage me constitute them and left me with instruction to water them every twenty-four hours . It has been tremendous to see the fronds appearing and expanding mean solar day by 24-hour interval .

A few weeks ago they looked like this .

But now they are looking even more fantastic with their frond all unfurled . Thank you , dear Bertie and Beatrice , what a fantastically generous nowadays . I love ferns and these are the Rolls Royce of all ferns . I am going to have to pucker them some blanket for the winter .

Christina ofMyhesperidesgardenhosts Garden Bloggers ’ Foliage Day . Do go and look at her fantastic blog and why not fall in in and show us the leafage which is enhance your garden at the moment ?

29 Responses toGarden Bloggers’ Foliage Day. September

make love the walk through your garden ( your photos are such fun ) , drouth , and hotter periods than normal have created an strange fall here as well . Some plants have done really well , but I have many that I ’m worried how they well they will do if the winter is a bit colder than normal .

I ’m still grinning at the thought of giraffe - similar Dahlias being kept in a rabbit hutch . Dahlia imperialis has tempted me many multiplication ( my favorite mail social club nursery in northerly California propose it ) but it comes with warning to protect it from unassailable flatus , which would be a virtual impossibility here . ( Oh no , I just check out with that nursery and the plant is presently available – you ’re a bad influence ! I ’m trying to strike it from my curt - condition memory . ) I hope the tree diagram ferns live long and fly high in your garden .

Dahlia imperialis

Dahlia imperialis

Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day. September