In a Vase on Monday. Glamour from the Greenhouse.

I meant to drop a line a post about the greenhouse in October and tomorrow will be December and still I have n’t puzzle rotund to it . To make certain there is some flowered treat to look forward to all the year round , I attempt to have something particular for each calendar month . During October the nerines in the greenhouse make my heart sing . I have Nerine bowdeniihybrids in the garden too but some of the greenhouse ones are crossed with the scarletNerine sarniensisand they are not audacious as they grow their leaves through the winter . In any caseful , I like to have as many varieties as I can corral together in the greenhouse for maximal impingement . Most of them are going over now but they have been a joy for weeks .

Here are a few .

Nerine‘Lipstick ’ is a new one this year and is so pretty with its flowers of pinkish and white .

The headliner as common is my vast pot ofNerine undulata.which used to be calledNerinecrispa . I divided it this year so I have a few redundant pots . I have always thought my specimen was even more beautiful than anyNerine undulataI have ever seen . Recently I spoke to Clive Boyce who contribute me this works more than twenty years ago . Clive used to be President of the Alpine Garden Society and he knows a good plant when he sees one . Apparently thisNerine undulata is indeed special . It had been growing in his female parent ’s garden in Seaton , Devon since at least 1945 . Clive spotted that it is much finer than the usual Nerine undulataand he had it submitted to the RHS for judgement . After panoptic trials it was confirmed as a raw variety of particular merit . Clive suggest the name ofNerine undulata ‘ Seaton ’ as that it is where it rise . Apparently it is hardy but it looks far too slight and ethereal to take its probability in the fall garden . Besides I care to keep it in the greenhouse where I can gloat over it .

So I put a few of the linger nerines in a vase today to join in with Cathy ’ s popular meme ‘ In a Vase on Monday ’ .

As I am have blooms from the greenhouse today , I have filled a vase with the gloriousChrysanthemum‘Salhouse Joy ’ which has been delighting me for several weeks now . And asCathyhas featured a chrysanthemum in her vase today that I invest her , I would like to return the compliment with this adorable chrysanthemum which she gave me last class . I set the flowers off with a ruff ofEucalyptus gunnileaves . The gaga , curly petals remind me of my hair these day after nine month of cutting it myself . But whilst my fuzz seem the most awful wad , this chrysanthemum is sublime ; many thanks Cathy .

Ther are a few more goodies still looking good in the greenhouse . I love this late- flowering heat heyday , Passiflora‘Silly Cow ’ which I judge in the garden a few years ago and it was n’t quite dauntless . It is supposed to be hardy though and it has been bred to have bigger flowers than the ordinaryPassifora caerula . I shall keep it in the greenhouse for the winter and then examine it again in the garden next year . Who can resist a heyday call in ‘ Silly moo-cow ’ ? I went to a talking a few year ago by Myles Irvine who breed this cacoethes flower . He said he named it after a friend , which is rather a double - edged compliment .

I have several brugmansias in sight and I have brought them into the nursery and trim back most of them down but this one , Brugmansia‘Pink Lady ’ is still blossom . I buy it on eBay sooner this yr . It was a rooted film editing but grew to bloom size of it very quickly . I fuck these plants are deadly poison so I handle them with great respect .

I have charter cuttings of all my sage and abutilons and most of these are still fill up the greenhouse with colour . As this is a ‘ Vase on Monday ’ post and I seem to have gone rather off piste , I will bound myself to just one abutilon bloom which is peculiarly pretty and I do n’t cogitate I have mentioned it before . It isAbutilon‘Fool ’s Gold ’ .

Thanks to Cathy fromRambling in the gardenfor hosting this meme and dedicate me the lovely chrysanthemum for my vase today . I hope you will forgive the slight deviation , but I wanted to show one or two greenhouse lovelies before they go over .

46 Responses toIn a Vase on Monday. Glamour from the Greenhouse.

Well , these delightful beauties look to me like December efflorescence , particularly inside a control - climate greenhouse . You ’re right on metre . I unremarkably keep to a regular writing docket ( except during bouts of economic crisis ) , stemming from my old newspapering years . That path , I have a deadline to assemble — at least within a day or two . Works for me !

I ’d love to spend some time in your glasshouse , Chloris – I imagine I ’d be totally ga ga ( not to be confused with the Lady that uses that name ) . I have a individual Nerine ( ‘ Stephanie ’ I think ) , picked up at a botanical garden ’s fall industrial plant sales event in the days our botanic gardens held plant life sales . While I appreciate my wraith house I still long to have a nursery , even if that ’s hard to justify with temperatures at 74F/23C at the end of November .

Oh your nerines are absolutely beautiful Chloris . The blank ones invoke to me most . Are they sweet-smelling ? That heat flush is most spectacular . I wonder whether Myles Irvine confessed the naming of it to his friend 😄

In a Vase on Monday. Glamour from the Greenhouse.