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This photograph was taken at lunchtime today 10th November - it is a standard rose and I took the chance and gave it an extra feed right at the end of the feeding period and here we are with a lovely display. Had a look around the garden and found there was still quite a lot of other summer colour still about as well which hopefully will make the winter seem a lot lot shorter when it gets here!
My roses seem to be having a late bloom too - not given them any feed, but did a light pruning at the end of the first flowering period in the hope they might come again. Not as many as yours though!
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Lovely roses lucybob - they seem to be thriving.
We haven't anything new flowering, but we do still have lavender in bloom - funnily enough the ones out the back have gone over and we have trimmed back, but the ones in the front which are a mixture of Old English and French are still very much in flower - whether or not they will stay that way as we woke up this morning with a touch of frost everywhere so perhaps for not much longer.
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Kerry
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Many of my summer bedding plants and pelargoniums are still flowering, together with roses and Welsh Poppies. p.s. Beautiful roses and photo, Lucybob.
The necessity of bird-watching is a really good reason for avoiding all forms of housework.
The dust will still be there tomorrow - the birds may not be!
Lavetera still looking good, some flowers on the cosmea, allysum flowering again (I think from self sown seed from early planting) - and I have noticed some road-side blooms having a second flowering - but maybe not since yesterday's frost!!
That rose is fantastic - hope it will bloom for you next year - or will it think it's already done it?
Ospreys Rule OK, but Goldfinches come a close second!
Wow that's some rose Lucy!! Gorgeous! Is it scented?
I have a lobelia that flowers all year round! Even had flowers on it when we had the snow in Feb! I too have a few small roses, and what surprised me most was that my camelia has large buds on! Perhaps it does every year at this time, but never looked before!! Lol! Usually they do end up burnt though as they open very early and the frosts get them!!
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Lucy, beautiful rose. Our potted summer bedding flowers are still looking good. Geraniums still growing strong. Roses and Fuchsias are still flowering. We haven't had any frost yet but it is yet another wet and dreary morning.
Lovely to hear there are so many flowers still in bloom - until a year ago I lived above the snow line and we had very short summers and very long winters so this is all very exciting for me! Rhodedendrons and Camelias produce their buds well before winter and maybe that's why they are so suseptable to damage from the weather - especially camelias - lots of people cover them each night with a fleece but I am not that dedicated! Unfortuntely this particular rose is no scented - all the others in the garden are but its definitely making up for it with a late flourish of flowers - we will see what happens next year! I have a miniature rose that was given me on Valentine's day in full bloom - I potted it on and left it outside for the summer - it shed its leaves in August and then just a few weeks ago started to put on a growth spurt and fresh leaves so it is now in a cold frame and fingers crossed it will bloom again in Feb. We have had no frost yet perhaps a frosty morning would bring back the sunshine!
You've had no frosts yet? I'm amazed as I'm not that far away from you and have had 3 I think now! (Incl last Saturday 7.11)
Perhaps I slept through them Marjus - I used to live where you are I think - my Dad was a civilian attached to the RAF and I think it was supposed to be one of the frost pockets but that was a long time ago. No doubt you're up and out long before me - we have had a lot of very foggy mornings which of course keeps the frost at bay.
Yes it's true that Shawbury has recorded some of the lowest temps in England over the years!! Not sure why! Not always a bad thing to sleep through them! ;-) Although I rather like them, especially the hoar frosts!! January this year was superb!!
Thanks also for the info on the camelias! Just shows the little notice I've taken of mine previously throughout the autumn/winter!