Top Ten November Blooms.

Here we are deep in gloomy November and seasonal flush are getting ever scarcer . Every month , I include bloom from the whole month , so the ones I boast might be past their proficient and this is the case for some of the chrysanthemum . Some of these starry stars of autumn make their appearance in September , others are at their best in October and I featured some of them last month . Here are some lovely November chrysanthemums . The first is a very vigorous , tall -growing one which was discover growing in a Suffolk garden by a member of the Suffolk Plant Heritage and it is named ‘ Mavis Smith ’ after her . I love it for its unusual quill - shaped blossom , it looks like a pinkish bird .

Chrysanthemum‘Mavis Smith ’

I have another chrysanthemum which I suppose was get a line in Suffolk but I do n’t know anything about its history . I see it a bunch in gardens around here so perhaps it has been around for a foresightful time . It is calledChrysanthemum‘Suffolk Pink ’ , it is very firm growing and a endearing bright shade of pinko .

Chrysanthemum‘Mavis Smith’

Chrysanthemum‘Suffolk Pink ’

I have a fresh one this year which is also uncommon and on the Plant Heritage Red List . It is new to me , but in fact it is quite an old one and an lovely short - growing small pompom in lustrous yellow . It is call ‘ Jante Wells ’ .

Chrysanthemum‘Jante Wells ’

Chrysanthemum‘Mavis Smith’

Chrysanthemum”Edelweiss ’ is supposed to be snowy but it is really more a lambskin shade . It is also quite rare . It is semi - double and clearly take staking as it is collapse onto the lawn here .

Chrysanthemum‘Edelweiss ’

I have a lovely orange one calledChrysanthemum‘Cottage Apricot ’ .

Chrysanthemum‘Suffolk Pink’

Chrysanthemum‘Cottage Apricot ’

All these chrysanthemums are honest November bloomers but after a few frosts and deluge they are looking a bit battered . But my favourite chrysanthemum is a belated November foul-up and go on quite unperturbed by whatever the weather throws at it . It is an erstwhile kind called ‘ Chelsea Physic Garden ’ . It is twofold and a bronzey , glow orangish shade and the black eye of the petals are gilt .

Chrysanthemum‘Chelsea Physic Garden ’

Chrysanthemum‘Jante Wells’

After all the rain and Robert Frost ‘ Chelsea Physic Garden ’ is still looking fab . I adopt the next pic in the rainfall today .

If your garden is looking dreary in autumn then chrysanthemums give endearing spots of colouring and they are long last in flower arrangements .

People who follow my postal service will know that I am demented about nerines . The last one to flower in the glasshouse isNerine undulata . The flowers are smaller than those of my other nerines but they seem in profusion and they are quite charming . The petals of the pale pink blossom are crinkled and frilly . Clive Boyce who used to be the President of The Alpine Society and has many unusual and rarified flora gave it to me more than twenty years ago and it has lived in a pot ever since . He ensure me that it was unfearing and could live out of doors but the blossom are so tardy that I intend November rime would toss off them . It has more than forty blooms and although nerines bloom well when they are flock bound I think this potful is more than ready to be split and repot .

Chrysanthemum‘Edelweiss’

Nerine undulata .

Sternbergia luteais sometimes known as the Autumn Daffodil but I ca n’t think why it look more like a crocus than a Narcissus pseudonarcissus . In fact it is neither , it belong to to theAmaryllidoideaefamily . I love Reginald Farrer ’s description of it ‘ gleaming goblets sitting close to the flat coat through the sad hours of weeping autumn ‘ . It involve a spot where it can plume up the sunshine to do well . I have a clump in semi - subtlety which I keep forgetting to move . Each year it has mountain of bright green leave but does n’t bloom . The one in the photo is in full Lord’s Day and never lets me down .

Sternbergia lutea

Chrysanthemum‘Cottage Apricot’

Of naturally there are quite a little of fall bloom crocuses , I do n’t know why I do n’t have lots more and gallery of all unlike ones . Next year I will for sure get some more . They are pronto uncommitted . They are gracious in pots in the nursery too . The one I have isCrocus specicosus‘Conqueror ’ I took the photo today and it is very gloomy so the blooms are n’t open . They are a adorable colour .

Crocus speciosus‘Conqueror ’

I showed my fall -blooming snowdrop , Galanthus reginae - olgaelast month but this month another clunk is looking even considerably with loads of blooming . I appreciate this snowdrop particularly because my other fall efflorescence ones , Galanthus‘Barnes ’ and G.’Remember , Remember ’ seem to have disappear . Reginae - olgaeis very secure and clumps up beautifully . It does appreciate a flake of bonemeal now and again and enough water .

Chrysanthemum‘Chelsea Physic Garden’

Galanthus reginae - olgae

Mahonia x media‘Charity ’ and ‘ Winter Sun ’ are undistinguishable to me . I have both , they were here when I get in and the premature owner distinctly wish mahonias because they are all over the property . I get it on a lot of people do n’t like them because they are democratic in municipal planting , but I like the structure of their spiky foliage . They have to be pruned each year to block up them let tall-growing and bring forth their raceme of scandalmongering flowers over your head . I prize them especially because they blossom in November when unfolding shrubs are scarce .

Mahonia x media‘Winter Sun ’

Chrysanthemum‘Chelsea Physic Garden’

I do attempt to feature seasonal blooms each month but in November there are slim pick so I have to resort to blossom which are looking howling even though they are out of season . I have a lovely sea anemone which should be in bloom in summertime but it is still looking stunning . It is calledAnemone x hybrida‘Dreaming Swan ’ . I have an anemone call ‘ Wild Swan ’ which is n’t about as in effect as this and anyway it finished blooming month ago . The blooms of this one are semi - threefold and white tinged with violet .

Anemone x hybrida‘Dreaming Swan ’

The flowers of my hydrangea have turned to lovely antique shades now but I have one which is as refreshful as the summer prison term flower . It is ‘ Ayesha ’ grown from a cutting from my sure-enough garden . Hydrangeas are very easy from cuttings . This is one of my favourites with its heads of little incurved flower .

Nerine undulata.

Hydrangea‘Ayesha ’

I have a little bush which somebody gave me and it is something that I have never grown before . The label saysRhaphiolepsis‘Crimson ’ . I have see it up andRhaphiolepsis‘Coates Crimson ’ is supposed to flower in fountain and summertime so I am disordered . Is this something different or does it blossom again in autumn ? Anyway it is bloom gayly in the greenhouse as I am not quite sure whether or not it is hardy , perhaps somebody could enlighten me .

Raphiolepsis

Sternbergia lutea

I have one more to go and I am puzzled as to what to compose about , after all I desire to result some blooms which have started bloom now for December . I am going to have to complete with another summertime strayer . It is a very confusedPhygelius capensis‘African Queen ’ . It should be blooming in August but shush , do n’t say anything , it is a pleasure to have it now .

Phygelius capensis‘African Queen ’

So there we have it , I just negociate ten . If you have any November blooms to share I would love to see them , it does n’t have to be ten , even one would be lovely during these ever darkening day of November .

Crocus speciosus‘Conqueror’

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Once again , I find myself envious of your chrysanthemums . I love that Nerine too . Rhaphiolepsis indica is a common foundation works here but I ’m not familiar with yours , which seems to be a hybrid smorgasbord . Ours bloom just in spring – my neighbor has large swaths of them and they ’re spectacular in heyday . The only flower we have in common at the moment is that of Mahonia ‘ Jacob’s ladder ’ . My garden is abstemious on blooms in general since I tore out the warm - time of year flowers in my cutting garden to make means for plants suitable to our coolheaded - season . The raging , dry winds in October and early November took out most of the seasonal flush in my larger garden ahead of docket , except for my knotty - as - nails Grevilleas .

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Galanthus reginae-olgae

Top Ten November Blooms.