Whats lookin' good in October 2016

[zigs]

 

[DeborahJane]

Is that a magnificent climber a Boston Ivy, Zigs?

 

[zigs]

Is that a magnificent climber a Boston Ivy, Zigs?

Think it's a Virginia Creeper Debs, but i'm just veg and wildflowers department

 

[DeborahJane]

Thanks zigs.I do get Boston Ivy and Virginia Creeper confused. I think Virginia Creeper has a bigger leaf. I am trying to grow Boston Ivy to come up the front of the verandah which is elevated. I've planted 2 and they are looking pretty dismal.

 

[zigs]

Saying that, I've just looked at Boston Ivy and they are very similar. Just not heard it mentioned over here.

Hawthorn berries with Lichen growing on it, the air is very clean here in Dorset, Lichens don't thrive where it's polluted.

 

[DeborahJane]

The berries look great, really bright. One of the two supermarkets we have in my town has a couple of bushes with berries and they are shaped into rectangles with their woody bases exposed. It looks good, bit different.
Found a pic of where I have planted my Boston Ivy, the one of the left is visible but a long way to go til they look like the creeper on your barn photo, zigs.

 

[zigs]

They taste nice too, make a great wine or a fruit leather

Just remembered the card of Lichens I got in college.

 

[Beverly]

This bush is in its first year of growth, a foreigner to my garden from Southeast Asia. The common name is Orange Jessamine (Murraya paniculata) and it is just starting to bloom. These blooms are small but have a heavenly fragrance. The plant is of the Family Rutaceae and is a host plant for the Giant and Black Swallowtails. I chose a plant from SE Asia with the hopes that the predators will not know it, but the butterflies will. There is a plant native to Mexico (Choisya ternata) that is similar to this one and although it is native, it is not grown locally. I grew a Choisya last year and the predators did not bother the 4 generations of caterpillars on that plant at all. But this plant didn't make it through the rainy season and rather abruptly up and dropped dead. The Orange Jessamine is my new experiment and i hope it continues to grow well.

 

[DeborahJane]

I have a couple of Choisyas growing well in my garden but i I'm pretty sure I didn't choose the frgarant one i had intended to. Pretty but no fragrance. Good luck with your Orange Jessamine Beverly.

 

[Becky]

Gorgeous, @Beverly! I can almost smell it through my screen

Our Euonymus Planipes is looking rather lovely at the moment:

 

[Beverly]

I can't resist one more photo of the Murraya in full bunches of bloom. I am so delighted with it

 

[zigs]

Not a flower this time, but the autumn sunrise over Somerset, with the mist in the valley

 

[Becky]

Wow @zigs, that's beautiful!

 

[zigs]

Had to do a detour on the way to work to take a pic, hill I drove up is called Badger's Glory

 

[zigs]

Centranthus ruber