What do you see on your garden walks?

[Hoy]

Trond, did you get a new camera?  The clarity of your photos is tremendous!  What plant is shown in these shots?

Thank you Mark.
No new camera but a sunny and warm day
The plant is Hedera hibernica helix, Irish or Atlantic Common Ivy. It is a dangerous plant as it grows tremendously and swamp all small neighbours and climb every vantage point and tree it can find.
However, it blooms in fall and the flowers are much appreciated by both humans and insects and visited by many kind of the last category. It has a pleasent but faint smell too.

Here's a part of the flowering shrub. (The flower-bearing stems are very different from the trailing and climbing ones.)

[RickR]

Hedera helix is such an interesting plant to me because I knew it for so long as only a houseplant with juvenile foliage. I knew it had an adult stage and foliage, but I hadn't realized the flowering stems were different, too.  

At work yesterday, a man from central America (or was it South America?) was looking at the houseplants, and he mentioned that the common Heartleaf Philodendron (Philodendron scandens) was thought of as "evil" in his country.
This, because of how the vine often makes abrupt turns at the nodes, causing it to tangle and look unruly.

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And what do I see in my garden today?

     Uh Oh.......

              

A confused Podophyllum hexandrum.

[Hoy]

All my Podophyllums are still in green leaf.
A single rose (can it be 'Chinatown'?) by the garage wall:

[RickR]

My other Podophyllums are still green, too (well actually turning autumn yellow now).  But this one is in a very dry part of the garden, and went dormant in July.  While I have had ample rain all summer, I received just over one tenth of an inch in all of September, when we normally get 3 inches of rain.  About a week before the pic was taken, I watered heavily for the first time.  I guess that was a mistake...

[Hoy]

My other Podophyllums are still green, too (well actually turning autumn yellow now).  But this one is in a very dry part of the garden, and went dormant in July.  While I have had ample rain all summer, I received just over one tenth of an inch in all of September, when we normally get 3 inches of rain.  About a week before the pic was taken, I watered heavily for the first time.  I guess that was a mistake...

I hope it will survive! Normally 3 inches of rain in September? It is about what I get every other day nowadays

I found another plant in flower today: Impatiens omeiana. It is always blooming very late.

[Fermi]

Right now in these parts it's Iris Time - by which I mean the Pogons or Beardies!
This is a MBI called "Arianna"


DBI "Buster


DBI "Kiwi Slices"


A dwarf species one which came form the SRGC Seedex as I. schachtii but it may be I. pumila


cheers
fermi

[Fermi]

Other plants in flower include:
Sprekelia formosissima


A couple of our native paper daisies


And a coppery African Daisy


The next was outside where I work where the landscaper planted a New South Wales Waratah


cheers
fermi

[Lori S.]

So much of interest still happening even in the most northerly areas! 
And it's spring in the southern hemisphere - how wonderful!  We're going to be counting on you to brighten our winter doldrums, Fermi! 

[Fermi]

Well, Lori, there'll be plenty for awhile, but we hit our "doldrums" in summer when it's too hot for much to flower!
Here are some Pacific Coast Iris - the first lot are seedlings raised from seed from Diane W. in Canada!


The next two show the variation in colour in some seedlings of PCI "Big Money"


cheers
fermi

[Jandals]

Hi . Pictures from my place today and yesterday

Clematis marmoraria



Dicentra spectabilis alba



Lewisia tweedyi alba



Paeonia lutea

[Lori S.]

Clematis marmoraria is gorgeous!    I'm glad your are brightening our days too with spring flowers, Jandals!  Drizzling rain here the last couple of days really brings a feeling of finality to the season.

[RickR]

Yessiree, that Clematis marmoraria is something to behold!

It supposedly has a suckering habit?

[RickR]

Those Pacific coast iris are sure beautiful and varied.  They say the Pacific coast native iris species are still speciating.  Would be nice if I could grow them here.
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A nondescript pic of the garden today.  If you look hard you can see what is left of the Colchicum agrippinum that began bloom about 14 Sept.

               

I am moving bulbs around in the gardens, and I thought this was interesting.  Look at how (where) the roots emerge from the bulb!

Hyacinthoides sp.

               

[Hoy]

Seems the fall has arrived at your place too, Rick!
The Hyacinthoides bulb has to have a (short) stem inside where the roots grow from. Have you ever made a longitudinal cut through the bulb?

[Jandals]

Thanks Lori . If I could steal your drizzle I would . Even in september I could walk anywhere on the property in my jandals and not get stuck . Spring was the same last year but as soon as everyone went on their summer holidays at Christmas it started raining .

Rick - The Clematis marmoraria do sucker around and they can be propagated from these . One of my plants has about 100 flowerbuds on it . If I can get a good picture when it flowers I will post it