The bulblike oxalis are starting to bloom , here are a trio . And , just in fourth dimension for our first snow of the time of year . Look at how floriferous the one on the right it , Oxalis lupinifolia . Last year it only had one flower .
The clean Nerine sarniensis are peculiarly beautiful this twelvemonth .
I am beginning to opine of October as the first of my favorite gardening season . It ’s amazing what a greenhouse can do for you . Even though this is a prison term of transition , the phase angle is n’t a shift aside from horticulture , but rather a shift indoors , where there is more to do . Upon entering the autumn greenhouse , one is met with moist air , which is a fresh as an other spring day in April , but scented not with Lilac ’s , but with the ssweet cent of Osmanthus fragrans , a smell which I forthwith link with fall days in cool greenouses .
Bulbs in pots , that are all starting to acquire and blossom , and the most exciting in these October days . Nerine sarniensis , Oxalis bulbs from South Africa ’s cape region all steal the show . Oxalis ciliaris has few flowers , but their colouring is unique .
An early surprise snowfall , lands on Catalpa farewell , so betimes , they have not yet twist color for the season . Is this a signal of our winter to derive ?
A Cypella herbertii , an South African light bulb in the Iris family , begins to bloom in the greenhouse . It seems to have poor timing , either blooming at night , or when I am not around . In efflorescence , it seem very much like a Tigridia . Not all Nerine are big , this little Nerine masonorum is a tiny species which is evergreen .
The Nerine stems , when not staked turn and turn in the sunlight .
I cleaned the glasshouse walk today , and the garden in front of the south side of the nursery , which was planted with Dahlias and Colocasia , now utter with our killing frost this calendar week . Now murder and throw out in the compost , I drag over the sassanqua Camellia ’s . which can ride in their pots until it becomes too cold-blooded for them . By Thanksgiving , they too will be brought back into the greenhouse . Cyclamen purpurascens africanum beginning to bloom in the sand bed , in the back of the greenhouse . Many of my Cyclamen species are late this year , I do n’t know why . peradventure they too just want to sleep in recently given our weather .
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