More leaf shots

Deliverance

Frosted Dimples

Paradise Joyce

Brother Stefan

Autumn hostas

Afterglow in final autumn colors

Dark Star

Roy Klehm

Climax

More autumn hosta

Ripple Effect

Halcyon

Ben Vernooij

Touch of Class (or Catherine)

Today

Ben Vernooij

Ben Vernooij

Ben Vernooij

Paradise Glory

End of season

LS Paisley Print

Tokudama

Cup of Grace

Abiqua Drinking Gourd

View from my yard

That’s all for today.

Camellia Northern Lights

Coral Knockout rose

Chrysanthemum Matchsticks

Is the last picture of the yellow/orange flower a chrysanthemum?

Saturday 11/14/20
Pineapple sage, bog sage, and Malvaviscus

Pineapple sage, bought several years ago as an annual. Reliably perennial for me and blooms in October and November.

Bog sage. I am so glad I tried a 2nd time to grow this last year. I love it!

Malvaviscus

Camellias with unwelcome critter

Camellia Northern Lights with eastern yellow jacket.

Camellia Hiryu

Hostas Forbidden Fruit, Clear Fork River Valley, and Ben Vernooij. Gentian.

Forbidden Fruit on its 4th year. A slow grower for me, compared to its more vigorous family members.

CFRV, year 1.

Ben Vernooij year 3.

Gentiana Rockford is going purple....gentian violet.

Camellias

Moonshadow

Hiryu

Hiryu

Northern Lights

Hostas

L to R: Sapphire Pillows (Y1), First Frost, Clear Fork River Valley (Y1), Deliverance, Frosted Dimples, and Avent's Apple Pie in foreground. Spotted plan is leopard plant aureomaculata.

Same plants, wider angle adds a leaf of Diamond Lake toward the back.

Brother Stefan and Mourning Dove are going to sleep.

The other Brother Stefan. I love this plant!

Hellebore may bloom while hostas are still awake.

Cup of Grace, Mairisii's fern, hellebore 'Ice n Roses Red' with several buds starting to open.

Camellia Apple Blossom has lots of buds, and hostas Hovercraft and Jetstream keep holding their leaves up high.

The front walkway hostas are going dormant, except Monkey Business and Praying Hands. They are in their winter resting area now.

Once these are dormant, I lay ugly little garden fences and mesh on the tops of the pots to keep out the frantic squirrels. The autumn leaves are raining down from the oak trees. Collecting leaves today is pointless, as the leaves are falling faster than I can pick them up. I will get them in a couple of weeks.

Utog, can’t believe that Bridal Falls looks so good so late in the season! That camellia is beautiful!

newhostalady, I posted seeking information about vein pairs and followers told me they were a guide, could be off by 1 or 2. Also, not terribly reliable until hosta has reached maturity.

debra

The hosta season ends for me tonight with our first frost. Thanks for enjoying my garden in 2020. If you want to see my garden for the next 3 months while the hostas are dormant, just let me know. Happy holidays!

Camellias and hellebores will carry me through the next 3 months. :)

I have really enjoyed your garden all of 2020. I will see more of it when the alphabet starts on December 26th, every other day. It’s great fun!! :-)

debra

Camellias today

Camellia Hiryu, wide view.

Moonshadow camellia at noon.

Today had good flowers

Camellia Apple Blossom's flowers turned pink with the colder weather this week.

Camellia Hiryu...just wow!

Gentiana Rockford with a new bloom

Passionflower Lavendar Lady will bloom freely until we get serious frosts. This plant is marginally hardy in this zone. It was sold with instructions to bring it indoors for the winter. I did not follow instructions precisely. I separated a piece as I planted it, and grew it in a pot. I brought that indoors for the first winter and left the main plant in the ground. The potted plant did not survive. I thought the planted one died, too. Then, it awoke from dormancy the next June. It grows fast, takes over this part of the fence, blooms wildly for months, and then takes a 6 month nap. I highly recommend it.

Tough hostas, 2 days after our first frost.

Remember Me

Orange Marmalade

Paradise Glory

World Cup

A beautiful family endures, Halcyon lineage. I can grow these in pots. They wake up a little earlier and still last a long time.

Paradise Joyce (first year) with May (2nd year)

June

First Frost

June Fever

69 degrees today.

Ben Vernooij

Ben Vernooij

Camellia Hiryu with visitor.

Poncirus trifoliata hedge planted 4 years ago.

Will we see garden photos in December???

debra

Debra, I saw your comment about vein pairs. You mentioned that in regards to vein pairs, "followers told me they were a guide, could be off by 1 or 2. Also, not terribly reliable until hosta has reached maturity." So if I count 10 vein pairs on my "Catherine," then it is not a Catherine and I don't need to wait for maturity? Then it looks like my "Catherine" is not "Catherine" but it is Touch of Class instead. I have to wonder if the vein pair listed as 8 for Catherine is incorrect? I see in the Hosta Library that the 4th picture (which is a leaf photo) has 10 pairs. So not "Catherine" either? Confusing!

Raking day 11/22/2020

World Cup is architectural, beautiful.

Lemontini in the sun

Brother Stefan in fall glory. The corrugated texture is awfully photogenic.

Sugar Plum is a show off! It is 11/22/2020 and it has been unfurled since 3/21/2020!

Autumn-blooming camellias!

Moonshadow

Hiryu

11/22/2020

First Frost

Camellia Moonshadow with my glove for perspective

Camellia Hiryu with my glove

The garden in the dry creek bed, after some raking.

One last survey

Camellias

Paradise Glory with blooming autumn camellia in background

Apple Blossom has a pink flowers now.

Camellia Apple Blossom (or stow away in the Apple Blossom pot)

Camellia Northern Lights

A fine day
Camellia Hiryu

Hosta Deja Blue

Paul's Glory

I love your camellias. Show us whatever is looking good during the winter--I need the flowers to keep my spirits up during the winter so I have Autumnal cherry, Winter honeysuckle, Lenten roses, and Edgeworthia to get me thru until the bulbs start blooming.

undertheoaksgardener..I was a week or so behind on your post and caught up today..we had some beautiful days too but instead of taking pics of beautiful blooms we moved the snowblower into the garage and the potted hostas and garden items into the shed Lol..the weekend was rainy but today is sunny..I'd like to look around the garden and see what's left..my potted Autumn Frost went into the shed with leaves but the other pots were dormant..glancing out a window this is what I see..boxwoods, a yellow June, hellebores, tan leaves on the beech trees, dried flowers on the Annabelle hydrangeas, Autumn ferns and epimediums..not bad but no pretty blooms..I'll try to start a post with pictures..

November 26, 2020 after a gentle rain.

Sweet Olive

Hosta Lemontini is saying good-bye.

Passionflower Lavender Lady

Knockout rose

It happened. Hellebore has opened its flower while Cup of Grace is still up.

Camellia Apple Blossom has two separate trunks. There are different color blooms, with one trunk white and the other pink. Nice!
I think I have 2 camellias in one.

Also, I love the aroma and perfume of the garden. I planted sweet olive in the front and backyard several years ago. Home sweet home.

May your day be full of hope and self-restoration. Camellia Hiryu and soon to bloom Camellia japonica NOID.

Your so lucky to be able to grow Camellia---and so many varieties! It would be too challenging to grow them in southern Ontario. I love the Apple Blossom!

NHL, one day I will visit Canada. Ontario seems to be a similar growing zone to mine. Not that you need to shop, but there are several camellia varieties hardy to zone 6a...Look up Camellias April Remembered (incredible color), April Rose, and Londontowne Blush. Camforest.com has been good to me this month.

undertheoaksgardener..unlike yours my hybrid hellebores aren't blooming..but I'm happy to have the foliage in my garden during the winter..

The hostas are almost gone, though First Frost is hanging on.

Camellias

Penultimate flower for Northern Lights

Last flower bud for Northern Lights

Moonshadow

Fall colors in my yard

Camellia Apple Blossom

Apple Blossom is a winner! Thanks UTOG for the link to the camellia site and the suggestions. I did look at your suggestions. I wouldn't be able to decide! And then there's Spring Frill. Gorgeous. I will have a look out at my garden nursery in spring to see whether they carry any camellia.

First Frost is certainly living up to it's name!..

Newhostalady, as I said I was told in a post I made earlier this year that the vp count was a guide but not a determining factor. I think the information in the HL is all a guide to help us ID hostas. I think you answered your own question. By looking at the #4 picture of Catherine having 10 vp, it shows the variability that exists in each hosta.

debra

11/28/20

Camellias