My kaffir lily (Clivia minata) is now starting her flowering.
I believe their flower stems grow longer the warmer the room that they’re grown in? Back in my hot apartment the stem would’ve grown 3× bigger than this. The farmhouse they are in now is far colder in comparison. Also; I really need to repot this beaut sometime soon; the hanging basket container its in is leading to it being too wet (since hanging baskets are designed to hold some of their water).
New England Aster
(Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)
Good to see these transplants settling into the garden so well. Also its amusing seeing their reseeding siblings sneaking into every wild/open terrain they can find.
Showy Sedum
(Hylotelephium spectabile)
These specimens have established well in the new garden. A good autumn flower standard. Mom was just yesterday talking about dividing her specimens in the front garden. If we do I think we’ll add the divisions into the new garden with these here for more autumn ka-pow.
I’m sure this is a hoverfly (a BIG one) though idk what species/genus… I need to sometime Google around to get some leads. It was quite content feeding on the New England Asters.
Flowering raspberry (Rubrus odoratus) in the wildlife garden of the Guelph Aboretum. Definitely a gorgeous species!
If they weren’t such large plants (and such runner-spreaders like most raspberries) I’d have them in my gardens in a heartbeat!
A large columnar tree cultivar proving the name of the term at the Guelph Arboretum
Acer saccharum ‘Temple’s Upright’
A Sugar Maple if you can believe it!
Red Baneberry (Actaea rubra) in the wild areas of the Guelph Arboretum. Their poisonous berries were not quite ripe at the time I photographed this. Good to know for when comparing to specimens closer to home though.
(means that harvesting them in autumn is TOO LATE IN THE SEASON, late summer is more ideal)
My sister’s lawn still has Ajuga repens, and it still plots to dominate said lawn.
Imo these are the survivors of the garden (potentially a shade garden) from a property owner long before her. If i knew the cultivar I’d take some to add to my perennial selection with how much of a proliferation there is of this groundcover!
Dianthus ‘Little Bobby’
The one cultivar I’ve had the longest (an irony with its short life expectancy) and is one of my favourites. Collected seed of it a good while ago (prolly a couple of months ago??), I highly doubt it comes true from seed but I’d like to see anyways! Plus it’d be some genus-based seed startng experience.
Black Raspberries (Rubus occidentalis) wild in the drier nook of the woodland garden. The photos make them look tasty but nooo they’re tiny, seedy, tastless lies! Pretty fruits at least but not worth the lanky thorny canes lol
Interestingly this species is supposed to be rather thornless? These specimens contradict that description.
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