Six on Saturday. After the Frost.

We had a good innings this year with November colour but here we are at the end of the month and there is not much left out in the garden to savor . So this week after construe what we can notice outside I am inviting you into my hothouse which is cram with plants as I no longer heat the greenhouse .

But first , let ’s look alfresco and detect my tree diagram fern , Dicksonia antarticawhich is usually warmly tucked up for the winter by the end of November . This year I blank out but it is still looking unspoiled and unharmed by frost . I have bought a nice cosy zip up grip to protect it this year which is an advance on the sheepskin and string arrangement which usually takes me geezerhood to assure . For now though the frosts have departed and the conditions is remarkably mild again so I can savor it a bit longer .

I have written about my darling chrysanthemum here in the last few weeks , but many of them are now look a bit bedraggled after the freeze . ButChrysanthemum‘Chelsea Physic Garden ’ is still going strong ; it is the last flowering of all and blooms well into December . It is a fab chrysanthemum and if you have n’t got it then I suggest you go and order one now . Even if you do n’t like chrysanthemums , what else have you got looking this good in December ? I brought cutting of most of my chrysanthemums when I moved but I forgot to bring one of this hoarded wealth , so my works is novel this year . I am look onward to it bulking up . It is a burn up orangeness colour with radiate yellow at its heart and soul . It is fully double with slightly recurve petal so you get to see the gold on the back of the petal .

Dicksonia antartica

I have just realised that the one in my previous garden was much darker which is odd . It makes my plant bet a mo anemic . Perhaps I took the exposure earlier in the time of year and it fades with age . It look like a completely dissimilar plant though .

In a green goddess by the front door with my other maids in waiting , I have a two yr old cutting of a China uprise which is seldom out of bloom . I am completely baffled by its name as I always consider that it wasRosa chinensis‘Bengal Beauty ’ , but now it appears to beRosa x odorata‘Bengal Beauty ’ . To make it more confusing , sometimes it is listed as ‘ Bengal Crimson , or even ‘ Crimson Bengal ’ . I am sticking with the name I bought it under because it is not red-faced at all . Reginald Farrer report winter pink wine as ‘ sere moth ’ , but these vibrant single blooms are n’t withered at all , they look more like flights of hopeful butterfly . China rose need a sheltered cheery spot to give of their effective . I find some rose wine easier than others to strike from cutting and this is one of the easy ones along with my other China rise , ‘ Mutabilis ’ . I have them planted in the garden but I also have several in pots which I shall have to rehome when they get much cock-a-hoop .

My next two plants were an impulse buy when I saw them in full unseasonal blossom in the greenhouse of my local nursery . They only cost £ 11.99 which I think was very reasonable . Of naturally the blooms of these two clematis would n’t survive outside but they sure enough add up a bit of summer glamor to my conservatory . They are both thick and well suitable to quite a little culture .

Dicksonia antartica

The first is a wan lilac people of colour with empurpled tipped stamen . stamens . It is name ‘ Bernadine ’ .

The second one is usually described as dark red but I do n’t bed why as it is actually dark pink . It is called ‘ Nubia ’ and made its debut at Chelsea Flower Show in 2018 . It is a long - flowering clematis but I do n’t conjecture that means that it flowers into December . But here it is lighten up up a gloomy day .

In the above photo , between the two clematis you could just seeGalanthus elwesii(Heimalis Group ) ‘ Barnes ’ , a nice true November Anemone quinquefolia . ‘ Heimalis group ’ just stand for that it flower before January . And that it is its claim to fame ; there is nothing unusual about it aside from the fact that it blooms early and forms squeamish thumping . Oliver Wyatt found it in his Suffolk garden amongst some wood anemone he had been broadcast by E.P. Barnes , a operating surgeon from Northampton . He named it ‘ Earliest of All ’ . I am not sure if ‘ Barnes ’ is the same one or slightly dissimilar . And that is enough wood anemone talking , I hump I am boring non - galanthophiles .

Chrysanthemum ‘Chelsea Physic Garden.]’

I brought my orange- flowered genus Abutilon into the conservatory last month and it just never stops blooming , it clear up up its nook . I do n’t get laid its name or even if it has one , but it is a gem with its balloon - shaped bloom . I have nothing much to say about it apart from the fact that it is lovely and its glowing orange flowers are just the thing for a dull , drab 24-hour interval .

So there we have my Six on Saturday hosted by Jim atGarden Ruminations . Do go and check him out . It is always interesting to see what other people have to provide , especially when the garden in this part of the universe are calculate rather olive-drab .

I shall be back in the next day or two to show you my ludicrously overcrowded hothouse . The last person to see it just gazed at it for a while and then asked me if there is a name for my exceptional variety of compulsive plant - collecting disease .

Chrysanthemum ‘Chelsea Physic Garden’ in my previous garden.

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When you find out the name for ‘ your condition ’ I hope you will refer it , as I need to add the name to the list of my other ones , not that I wish for a cure ! That is a endearing Abutilon .

Six on Saturday. After the Frost.