Last blooms from the garden?

I'm glad you took a photo Wwmk2 . Olivia looks the quintessential English Rose, straight out of a Tudor garden. In my imagination anyway.

Yes and very healthy.

David Austin.

Highly recommended

Whitewavemark2

Photo of the “Olivia” old English rose I picked yesterday.

I reckon they will soon be gone as it is forecast to be quite cold in the next few days.

How beautiful. Does it have a perfume as well?

Photo of the “Olivia” old English rose I picked yesterday.

I reckon they will soon be gone as it is forecast to be quite cold in the next few days.

Yes I have always bought and planted them “in the green” in winter/early spring.

I move them then as well, even if they are flowering - they always do ok .

Wwmk2 Thanks for the advice, I will certainly try it.
They're so important to me, as a harbinger of better times, that I will try anything to keep them going.
If all else fails I shall result to buying a pot already grown on, and put it on the doorstep so it will be the first thing I see.
Gardening is a bit of a mystery at times I find.

Just picked the rose Olivia yesterday for a vase. The blooms are much smaller than I get in the summer, but there are still quite a few more on the bushes.

The snowdrops that do best are in shade in my garden - that might help?

I'm with you on the leaves situation Witzend. Very slippery on the paths.
I have large flowered begonias, which have buds still, but the flowers have dropped off as the temperature had lowered. I'm not sure when to lift the corns. Each time its dry and sunny a bud comes out!

25avalon it's a nice way to spend the dark evenings, planning next years garden.
If you remember post a photo of your rose next June.🌹

I wish my Snowdrops would just live past 3 years! I keep replacing them, but it's a fool's errand, Wwmk2

My sole potted begonia is still going strong, amid the sad wet mess of fallen beech leaves. Must do another clear up soon, though there are still masses to come.

Ladyleftfieldlover I have just purchased a bare root Bonica rose from Peter Beatles for £10 in their special sale. It’s not arriving till December. I thought it would be good. Looking forward to seeing it next year.

My sweet peas are in root trainers that rot in the ground - if that makes sense - in in a cold frame in the garden.

Soon I will see the shoots of the snowdrops. I need to move some this year as they have spread and need splitting.

Is your garden in a sheltered position Ladyleftfieldlover?

I love Delphiniums, they dont like me though beautiful blues.
If you do find that photo I'd like to see it.

It is nice to have some cheerful flowers as the nights draw in 25Avalon Funnily, I've just planted some Cheerfulness Daffs.

I havent planted my sweet peas Wwmk2 are yours in the garden or pots? If I did mine they would have to be in pots in the spare bedroom on the windowsill.

It would be nice if it were both colours Squiffy
I love having scent through the autumn and winter. I've planted a few small Wintersweet shrubs, for that reason. I think the strongest scent in winter comes from the Viburnum family.
I must try to find space for one

My Bonica rose still has a mass of pink flowers. Madame Alfred on the back wall still has a few flowers. We have one delphinium in the front garden and some purple flowers (can’t remember the name) in flower. I may have a photo.

Jasmine Nudiflorum and Mahonia are now in flower in my garden so when the Autumn blooms stop coming these start. Nice to have some cheer.

NotSpaghetti

whitewavemark - I had still got one bloom on mine yesterday when I was tidying up!

Mine disappeared with the hot summer 😦, so thought I’d sow now, and then in the spring to try to make them last.

whitewavemark - I had still got one bloom on mine yesterday when I was tidying up!

Looking forward, my sweet peas are just coming through🙂.

Sorry, I’ve only just seen your post Namsnanny. Yes, the viburnum’s scented, but it’s too far from the house to smell it indoors. The rose bush was new this year and the first couple of roses on the bush were a soft pale apricot colour, but subsequent blooms have been yellow! I wonder what colour they’ll be next year …

I love yellow Rose's squiffy (well any Rose's truth be told) yours is a nice clear yellow colour.
Does the Viburnum have scent?

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A few still going strong! We’ve also got a very ancient viburnum that is smothered in flowers. Nature’s wonderful, if a little confused at the moment!

I found some sprouting tulips in March and planted them in pots, some flowered (not all, the squirrel likes eating the green sprouts).

Callistemon21

Norah

We found a net of bulbs in the garden shed yesterday. Is it too late to plant for next spring? Or plant now and pray for the best?

Should be fine, Norah.

Our lavender has new flower stalks.

Thank you. We planted, heaped mulch over the bed for winter.

Neither of us know how or when the bulbs were forgotten.

May have pretty blooms come spring.

Norah

We found a net of bulbs in the garden shed yesterday. Is it too late to plant for next spring? Or plant now and pray for the best?

Should be fine, Norah.

Our lavender has new flower stalks.

No we’re not in England Namsnanny, we’re in the Algarve’s hilly countryside.
I like your photograph too, I love periwinkles but since my clump died, I’ve not been able to grow any more.

Lovely photos dustyangel are you in the UK?
A little perfect Periwinkle still making use of the mild weather