My plant for this month is more like my "Pot of the Year".
Our garden is still very green and lush, parts turning a brownish yellow with the first cold nights. Golden Heleniums are flowering proudly, Bistorta amplexicaule "firetails" makes up a wild red corner, high and low violet asters have their say in the garden now and Eupatorium rugosum "Chocolate" start unfolding their white tiny blossoms.
But the most spectacular display comes from the two large pots on our terrace that we replant every spring.
From my garden tour through Kent and Sussex in England last June, I had brought a sage (Salvia) "hot lips" with quite ordinary red-white little flowers. It is not hardy here but survived the last winter well in a pot in our covered light shaft in the basement. This lay the seed of the idea to try out these salvias more and get to know them better.
There is such a large variety of colours and shapes to be explored! Paul knows an Italian specialist nursery where I ordered two breeds : Salvia "Il Pellegrino" in a slightly translucent fine salmon colour that goes well with our pots and "Indigo Spires" that I had seen in England in such vivid dark blue that I wanted to grow one at home.
Pink spider flower (Cleome), salmon-coloured Salvia "Il Pellegrino", blue Salvia "Indigo Spires" and in between the dark red Dipladenia. In the background the yellowing leaves of Hamamelis pallida.
Pink spider flowers with Sage Indigo Spires
We will try to keep everything alive in our basement in winter.
Our garden is still very green and lush, parts turning a brownish yellow with the first cold nights. Golden Heleniums are flowering proudly, Bistorta amplexicaule "firetails" makes up a wild red corner, high and low violet asters have their say in the garden now and Eupatorium rugosum "Chocolate" start unfolding their white tiny blossoms.
But the most spectacular display comes from the two large pots on our terrace that we replant every spring.
From my garden tour through Kent and Sussex in England last June, I had brought a sage (Salvia) "hot lips" with quite ordinary red-white little flowers. It is not hardy here but survived the last winter well in a pot in our covered light shaft in the basement. This lay the seed of the idea to try out these salvias more and get to know them better.
There is such a large variety of colours and shapes to be explored! Paul knows an Italian specialist nursery where I ordered two breeds : Salvia "Il Pellegrino" in a slightly translucent fine salmon colour that goes well with our pots and "Indigo Spires" that I had seen in England in such vivid dark blue that I wanted to grow one at home.
Pink spider flower (Cleome), salmon-coloured Salvia "Il Pellegrino", blue Salvia "Indigo Spires" and in between the dark red Dipladenia. In the background the yellowing leaves of Hamamelis pallida.
Pink spider flowers with Sage Indigo Spires
We will try to keep everything alive in our basement in winter.
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