I do like the vagaries of English Weather, how seasons are never the same, how us gardeners need to plan for almost every eventuality, how one year can be different from another in how plants grow and thrive or not.
Yes I understand that others may like predictability, and that a long spell of warm possibly hot sunny weather is welcomed by holiday markers and non gardeners. I prefer cooler temperatures. The question on my mind is are we going to get an Indian Summer. There is still time...in the meantime, it is time that Alstromeria Indian Summer takes its turn In a Vase on Monday.
Joining the lily like blooms in the vase are Alchemilla mollis leaves and sprigs of Lonicera Nitida Baggesens Gold. As usual I will be joining in Cathy's weekly get together, now she has uploaded this week's post, showing flowers from our garden.
A lovely and bright cultivar, Noelle! Hope you get the cooler weather you are wishing for. It has been cool here and some leaves are already turning. I'm not ready for frost however! Hopefully, that will be farther into autumn.
ReplyDeleteSorry to have lead you astray by my fuzzy words, we are having quite a cool spell, it feel almost like autumn as the days get markedly shorter and I was wondering whether that was it, or were we going to have some warmer temperatures with this later warmth being called an Indian Summer in the UK. It would not get really hot anyway in September, just sunny without too low temperatures at night.
DeleteAhah, the Indian Summer!! 😀This is so lovely Noelle, especially having enough stems to make a generous posy. My IS has been very slow to bulk up and I rarely have more than a couple of stems - the blooms are so long-lasting, aren't they? The L nitida is such a useful foliage plant, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteYou can't believe how many flowers the plant has had, it has been almost embarrassing. From our kitchen window it has looked like the wholesaler for magicians' flowers. I grow it in a pot.
DeleteBeautiful color of the lily like, alstroemeria...I am featuring them this week too but in a whole different color!
ReplyDeleteI was wasn't able to comment on your blog Donna, so here I leave my thanks for your beautiful post and poem. I shall cut my Alstromeria a little earlier now as well.
DeleteA lovely mix, Noelle! 'Indian Summer' is one of my favorite Alstroemerias. It's reputed to bloom even during the heat of summer here, although I for one can't claim I get many blooms from it until our temperatures cool a bit. In Southern California we almost always get an Indian summer with heat stretching well into October. In the midst of a heatwave, I'm already longing for cooler temperatures.
ReplyDeleteI have been very fortunate with this Astrantia, and am always delighted to see the range of plants you grow in your climate.
DeleteThe Astrantia leaves really set off the alstroemeria. Nicely done.
ReplyDeleteHi Susie, I had reread my post earlier and realised my mistake and had changed the leaves to Alchemilla mollis, but come to think Astrantia would make good greenery in an arrangement.
DeleteI've only seen this in flower in the flesh once Noelle and it went straight onto my wish list. I must track it down. Like you I prefer cooler summers but after two months of above average rain and a definite lack of sunshine I would love an Indian Summer 😂
ReplyDeleteI have had a embarrassment of flowers as explained to Cathy earlier on. Last year I had a battle removing it and dividing it. I think it was the repotting into fresh compost which helps to give it vigour. The divisions came to nothing in the garden, but I gather from Alison to whom I gave a piece, which she is growing in a pot in her polytunnel, it is doing very well.
DeleteIndian Summer is pretty and perfectly named. I like it with the Lonicera. Amelia
ReplyDeleteThanks Amelia, it was tricky to find something to put it with and I was trimming my shrubs in the front garden and it suddenly dawned on me that it matched the yellow markings on the Astrantia.
DeleteThank you for sharing, I adore Alstromeria and seeing it in posts :-D What a clever use for the Lonicera sprigs, I'm going to have to borrow that idea in the future!
ReplyDeleteA pretty Alstroemeria Noelle. I would love an Indian Summer, and we do often get one here. Those colours are saying autumn though too!
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