The Gunnera is being eased towards winter. Until the leaves are cut back, the entire plant is covered with an insulating cloth that goes over this hoop frame whenever the weather forecast is threatening for the night. After the leaves are cut off for the winter, out comes THE BOX.
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The Gunnera Gets Ready For Winter
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Gunnera manicata
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The huge, soft, hairy, pink growth tip appropriately sized for the Gunnera.
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The Hakonechloa macra is setting seeds and glowing in the late afternoon light.
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Hakonechloa macra
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Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'
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Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola' looking like it did in the Spring as if it had just been combed.
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This is it--the last of the Ligularias. All the others have finished blooming and had their flower stalks removed. But surely there will be more next year.
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Last of the Ligularias
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Nymphaea 'White Delight'
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Nymphaea 'White Delight'--an accurately named Water Lily is still blooming amidst the rippled reflections of the Autumn trees.
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A lovely Tricyrtis--but where are the spots?
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Tricyrtis sp.
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Polygonum 'Pink Beauty'
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The small coral flowers of a small Woodland shrub-- Polygonum 'Pink Beauty.'
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The wiry spikes of a Cimicifuga patch linger on in the Upper Woodland.
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Cimicifuga sp.
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The Alpine House
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I think the Alpines know it is soon to be their season.
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Native to the eastern US, I am told that this Phlox usually blooms in the Spring, but has been blooming here for the past three weeks, possibly the result of having been cut back hard in the Summer.
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Phlox bifida 'Blue Eye'
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Phlox bifida 'Blue Eye'
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'Blue Eye' is definitely a perfect name.
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The purple flowers and fuzzy foliage of Petrocosmia flaccida. The genus is derived from "petros" meaning rock and "kosmos" meaning ornament because the plant grows on rocks. But this certainly is not the only only rock ornament out there!
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Petrocosmia flaccida
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Lachenalia 'Pearsonii'
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There were many pots of tender bulbs in one of the greenhouses. With such interestingly spotted foliage, I wonder what is next for this Lachenalia--a South African native named after Walter de la Chenal, a Swiss Botany professor.We will keep watching.
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