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[AnneKipanki]

Just a little fourward planning . We are all looking forward to another thread of fabulous pictures. It can be a quiet time but I am sure some of us will have autumnal colours to share . The trees are starting to turn here . I have just picked an allium from my photo collection to start the thread off .
You are very welcome to finish or visit the old thread . I do not know how to do ... this is the old thread here thing .

Loving all the beautiful colors of Spring, Summer, and now Summer extended into Fall! Azaleas are blooming here in the southern US...they usually only bloom in Spring.

I saw some Fall color since I'm visiting in the Southern US
Maybe someone knows what it is called? IRL it looks as if a prankster has dipped the leaves into red paint...it's all shiny looking, not kind of crinkled and dry like is usual for turning leaves.

It looks like a sumac. I have some and they colour to an intense red.

Holly berries are reddening

@Dhalia443
Thank you for your help.
When you say sumac, do you mean sumac as in the poisonous kind that causes great skin irritation?
I hope not as I saw this at a primary school that has been closed for ages because of covid-19😳😲

Found this beautiful delicate lavender flower in my mum's back garden. Anyone know what it's called? Hope its not poison as I cut it and put it in a vase for the kitchen table

I think it’s a staghorn sumac, which is not poisonous.
It has furry stems.

It’s very invasive and spreads via suckers and seed. I grow them in pots to stop them spreading. They have amazing autumn colour.

@Sweetpea1532 is it a thalictrum? We have several in the garden. There are lots of different types. Ours have finished for the year now but they are very pretty

@Dahlia443 Thank you for the info....I will only be visiting for about 4 more days so I hope they speed up with turning red. Maybe when yours turn you can post some photos, please.

@catwithflowers
I'm not sure of the name of them. Lots of neighbours are growing them also

I was driving to visit relatives about 3 hours south of here near the Florida/Alabama border...while on the motorway, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw tonnes and tonnes of white, fuchsia, and pink cosmos growing in the median....they were about a meter tall and planted very close together...they went on and on for at least 3miles. The photo just doesn't do them justice. There were several areas along the way like this..It was a nice change from the usual dead weeds

@Sweetpea1532 that is so lovely! Here in the UK, my local council spread wildflowers on lots of road banks... It was such a lovely sight in the spring!

Here some of my heucheras, a ligularia and cyclamen.

I have been planting a load of bulbs in between thundery showers, I have some blue ranunculus and anemone soaked overnight ready to go in today. The anemone is called "Mr Fokker"... I kid you not!

@LittleWingSoul
Thank you for the photos. Looking forward to your Mr.Fokker
I'm glad your council appreciates the benefits of beautiful flowers, too.

Unfortunately, my mum's Knockout Rose's have been infected with "RoseRosette Virus"
It is very strange to see the effects of this virus on what were once healthy bushes with luscious blooms. The photo is of a bush that is about 8 years old. The growth takes off at the end of the stalks, becomes very heavy and then hangs down because of the weight. I've tried trimming the bushes way back, but they just die a miserable death. 😢 I thought I'd share this photo of this rose's last hurrah. The info I found on Google on this virus is spot-on to what is happening in my mum's garden. She must have at least 50 Knockout roses...oh well, time to try something new.

Love the red foliage on that rose @Sweetpea1532

That's a shame @Sweetpea1532 ☹️

@AnneKipanki
Thanks for your sympathy....yes, it is a shame....50 bushes in the back, front, and side garden.
@LittleWingSoul..... I, too, love the color of the foliage. Unfortunately, though it is caused by the virus. The leaves do not mature therefore they are still the same size and color as new growth eventhough the roses have bloomed. The virus causes the thorns to come out like something from a freak show.
They are all lined up on one side of the stem and there is no space between them..think like 20 thorns lined up in a row on one side and touching each other..
Bizarre looking! The virus must affect the plants DNA...(if they have DNA)

Today...
roses still in bloom (David Austin ''Tranquility'') and red leaves on the Mountain Ash (Rowan).
Isn't October just magical 🍂

It is .

@AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet So, so beautiful

Thank for the photos, ALWAYS.
Those roses are so lovely that I could almost smell them right through the screen!

This rose really came into its own now. I don't know what it is it was a cheap one front he garden centre.

I'm trying to decide which David Austin bare root rose to treat myself to on pay day. I have boscobel and Thomas Beckett. I also have a yellow rose and this red beauty.

I have a gap earmarked for it already.

Thank you
You're welcome Sweetpea and I love your fascinating pictures and posts too!

@ditavonteesed Have fun choosing! I think based on what you already have, you should get a white one?

Here was one of my last Hydrangeas today. It was blue when I bought it, (a few months ago) and I planted it in ericaceous compost. It's quite obviously positively pink now

Your favourite colour!

@ditavonteesed
Beautiful roses...love the contrast with the little purple flowers and the dark grey slats

Just got home from my month long trip visiting DM....DH was so proud of how he was able to keep my gardens alive and even thriving whilst I was away...he even religiously fed the worms in my vermiculture bin....only come to find out, I'd forgotten to tell him that I'd downsized the bin and moved it to a different spot in the back garden. He'd been faithfully putting veg and fruit scraps in the old bin that I was now using to store dried up leaves. Poor diddums! I couldn't figure out in a phone conversation about 3 weeks ago why he was so concerned that the worms would overheat.
I'd told him "Hummm, I didn't think the spot behind your big chair got much sun". Of course, since we have worked out that we do NOT speak the same language ,(albeit, English) it was just another miscommunication...I meant his big OUTSIDE chair and he thought I was talking about his big INSIDE chair....both having had worm bins...one new one old...one empty, one full. We gingerly peeked into the new bin that hadn't had a crumb since I'd gone away and TA DA! The worms were alive and well! Sure enough my dried leaves bin was piled high watermelon, lettuce, cantaloupe, tomatoes, etc.
Fortunately, little worms can go about 2 months without being topped off with scraps.🪱

I agree , wonderful contrast of colours.
Great to hear your worms have survived.Maybe a bit of fasting will have boosted their metabolism .

@AnneKipanki
Great thought...come to think of it, they did look extra wiggly when I peeped in.