These are colchicums. They look blueish but are pinkish purple: The hedge is looking good: One of the bell-heathers: The dwarf Epimedium shows nice autumn colors, an unexpected bonus: They promise me sun tomorrow. Then I might find more nice colors to post.
Since we've been blessed with a nice afternoon, I managed to capture more color today: Colchicum autumnale fl.pl. "Waterlily" will bloom till frost: The latest Ligularia, with rather dark leaves: The catnip keeps at it: The seeds from my brown-streaked Arisema: The yellow Echinacea. The red one won't flower this year: This little darling Calendula has self-seeded, and is very welcome: The alpine clematis with both flower and seed heads:
Your alpine clematis looks exactly the same as mine at the moment Droopy - guess we have much the same kind of weather as each other.
Love the colchicums! Mine are putting on a show this fall! Next year I want to get some of the "waterlily" ones. I think they are so fancy looking! Deanna :-D
Thank you all. I love my colchicums for just the reason that they bloom now. I've got white ones too, but I'm having difficulties photographing them. They turn out to be white blobs, which I don't like.
Everything is looking great there. I love the colors of Autumn. I am also a fan of the waterlily colchicum. That alpine clemmie is stunning. I so love calendulas but my climate is no good for them. :-| But I get to see yours.
just love your clematis vine, I have one similiar, its flowers are purple. I have picked up an enchinacea plant but didn't really knew it would flower so your picture gave me insight to watch for it to flower-all very pretty flowers.
Thank you everybody. You are too kind. The Calendula are the childrens' project. They grow sweet peas, carrots and Calendula (almost) every year. I believe in showing children where food actually comes from, and how they can make their own hand cream. Calendula petals, oil and bees'wax makes a good cream for children.
