‘I’ve moved house earlier this year and planted some fuchsias in the garden. I bought these from a local nursery and they are described as ‘hardy’. Can I leave them in the ground over winter and if so do I need to protect them in some way?’
‘Dull dawn, grey day, and early comes the night,
‘The mellow year is hasting to its close;
Sedum (common name ‘Stonecrop’) is a wide genus of some 400 species, encompassing annuals, biennials, deciduous, semi evergreen and evergreen perennials, subshrubs and shrubs- from both hemispheres! What you might call a botanical success story!
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Today it rained; across the evening sky
Grey, ragged ranks of cloud now slowly pass
After the rain away, and out to sea.
Where near the old wood; from a dripping tree
Leaves, damp and yellow, fall upon the grass,
As startled pigeons from their cover fly.
A pheasant calls; gnats dance by ivy blooms;
Among the bracken blood-red brambles run.
The daylight fades, and in the scattered homes
The little windows light up one by one.
In cottage gardens now the beacons glow
Of white Chrysanthemums, defying night;
Pale, cold, the moon glides slowly into sight,
And trees across the fields faint shadows throw.’
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Aster alpinus
The Hungarian revolution of 31 October 1918, became known as the ‘Aster Revolution’ due to protesters in Budapest wearing this flower.
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via Woodland Trust
Cotoneaster frigidus – leaves and fruit
The majority of Cotoneaster species are shrubs from 0.5–5 metres tall, varying from ground-hugging prostrate plants to erect shrubs. A few, notably C. frigidus, are small trees up to 15 metres tall and 75 centimetres trunk diameter. The prostrate species are mostly alpine plants growing at high altitude (e.g. C. integrifolius, which grows at 3,000–4,000 metres in the Himalayas), while the larger species occur in scrub and woodland gaps at lower altitudes. Cotoneasters are very popular garden shrubs, grown for their attractive habit and decorative fruit. Many are cultivars, some of hybrid origin; of these, some are of known parentage.
Cotoneaster franchetii
Cotoneaster horizontalis
C. adpressa = close, pressed-down growth or fruits closely pressed against the branch
C. applanata = the branches lie flat or in a plane
C. bullata = wrinkled, referring to the leaves
C. buxifolia = box (buxus) -leaved
C. congesta = crowded, the plant’s habit
C. divaricata =spread-out, forking , referring to the branches
C. franchettii = after Franchet, a French botanist
C. frigida = cold,frosty, probably referring to its native habitat
C. harroviana = after G. Harrow, a nurseryman once of Coombe Wood Nursery
C. henryana = after Dr. Augustine Henry, a 19th century Chinese customs official and ‘plant hunter’
C. horiziontalis = horizontal, its growth habit
C. humifusa = spread on the ground
C. lacteus = milky, probably referring to the milky white flowers (the ‘Late Cotoneaster’)
C. lucida = shining, referring to the leaves
C. microphylla = small – leaved
C. multiflora = many flowered
C. pannosa = woolly, the foliage
C. rotundifoilia = round leaved
C. salicifolia = willow (salix) leaved
C. simonsii = after Simons, (The ‘Himalayan Cotoneaster’ or ‘Simon’s Cotoneaster’)
Cotoneaster adpressus
Cotoneaster lacteus – flowers
Cotoneaster simonsii
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