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I just walked around the garden and spotted some Love-in-a-mist in flower ... crazy!

You have lots of colour still in your garden D.Lily.
I actually have a Choisya which has started to flower again!

You have a lot o colour showing. I have Penstemons, the Pensham types, Erysimum 'Bowles's Mauve', pots of yellow Begonias, pink Nerines, a couple of Roses and the bright berries on the Pyracanthas, so I'm a happy bunny!

I have a large tub waiting for something special to go in it and this one is just the thing!
Did you buy it online Karen?
Thanks for all the info.

Thanks Daylily, the pollinators are attracted to them too.

There's still quite a lot of colour to enjoy, D'lily. All our asters have disappeared this year! The persicarias are definitely the stars of the show at the moment.

Thanks, Sheila. I hate its name, but I love the plant!

Thanks, D'lily.

Absolutely lovely garden Karen just like your others :-))

Looks lovely :-)

Four photos now uploaded to my pictures!

I removed the Geraniums & Fuchsias from this planter & took them home. I had some Primroses on the balcony railings that were just starting to flower but the plants look horrible besides which they won't flower much during the winter & I don't fancy just looking at green rosettes when I could be looking at some colourful Pansies!

I first dug out the plants & dug over the soil while adding some spent compost from the balcony. When the Town Council put the planters around the cash machine they didn't add any more soil. That is why the plants look so low. I've now raised the level a bit more by adding spent compost from the growbags that had tomatoes growing in them on the balcony all summer.

I planted a bag of 30 Daffodils & then overplanted them with the Primroses. Though they are not very good looking plants I think they will still grow & flower in the Spring.

This is the first planter that I put some Daffodils & Primroses in. The Geraniums & Fuchsias I took back home & put in pots on the balcony. The white Petunia had to come out as well but couldn't be saved.

This is the 2nd planter which I put Daffodils in & then planted some Cyclamen over the top of them today. I dug up all the variegated Geraniums I'd planted in them & took many cuttings & put the the plants in pots on the balcony. The cutting I potted up in the kitchen but if they all root, (about 40!), I don't know what I will do with them!

The white & green variegated ones root ever so easily! Even the one with the bright yellow leaves roots very easily as well!

This is the 2nd planter after I added in some Pansies. I planted out some Cyclamen over the Daffodils but I only had4 Cyclamen plants & they were totally lost in the planter so I put in half the box of Pansies my son had got for me over a week ago. There are 12 Pansies in there now, the other 12 Pansies I put in the first planter as it too looked a bit empty! But I forgot to take a a 2nd picture because they hadn't been planted out yet when I took the first photo of the first planter I did yesterday! I shall have to go back tomorrow & take another photo!

Thank you all for your comments & likes on the Cosmos. They are certainly growing very well & they have been flowering for several months now. They began to flower on 16th August only 3 weeks after being planted out! So it's nearly 4 months now they have been flowering & they have never looked better than they do at the present moment - which makes it all the sadder that I shall have to pull them up on Friday to plant some Daffodils & possibly Pansies in their place!

I've already done the first 2 planters but this one I've been leaving a bit longer because of the great show the Cosmos are giving! You will find a few photos in my photos after I upload them shortly.

Thanks, FF! But I'm afraid for only a few more days!I will probably be pulling them up on Friday as I replant the the containers with Daffodils & other plants. Have a look at my photo page to see what I've been up to this week!

It is, isn't it, Shirley? It's a variegated Geranium called 'Madame Salleron' & it roots very easily. Just yesterday & today I've taken lots of cutting from it. I still have the mother plant I bought a couple of years ago when my son took me to a nursery & let me choose some plants as my birthday present. The plants I dug up were from cuttings that I had rooted earlier in the year but didn't really have room for on the balcony.

I've taken out the plants in the first 2 planters & put Daffodils & other plants in their place. I have the one with the Cosmos still in it to do yet but I think that will now have to wait for Friday. I'll upload the photos I've taken today & yesterday.

My idea as well, Janey! So I'm in no hurry to see new growth, much less flowers!

I do like this one :-)

Agree with Shirley...they aren't the easiest plants but your care has obviously paid off Janey.

Great. The taller Cosmos is best in those planters.

Nice that your planting is continuing to brighten that area up.

Wow Ange it’s gorgeous.

Very rewarding … lovely!

Well done David, they are really thriving!

The foliage is so pretty.

I was wondering how they would fare, being planted so deep, but they're looking good!

That's a glorious sight for early November ... or any other time of the year!

Janey, luckily for us the neighbours are rarely outdoors!

Amazing to see it doing so well in November Balc. You must be really pleased with it..:)

That’s a real stunner! Who wouldn’t love to have that colour in November!

Wow Janey, it loves you! Looking good. Mine are incredibly leggy and bending over …

Thanks Sheila and Janey. Every few years I take cuttings from the cacti and this is four years old now. I gave my neighbour a potful of cuttings too and her plant has even more flowers than mine....The orchid has had four lots of flowers this year. We give it orchid feed in the summer. We soak the pot in rainwater we collect, from the tub outside, then let it drain out so that the plant isn't too wet. When the flowers have finished I cut down to the next node on the stem and it starts all over again. Hope this helps....

Thankyou for your lovely comments Karen. Glad you liked the scene. I'm having a go at another barge picture at the moment, (with a bit of artistic license....

The Cosmos seem to be enjoying their late flowering.

Yes, it’s very happy! Some stems are 7 ft tall.

This one is very tropical, but there’s one that looks pretty similar and it’s very hardy. I think it’s Hart’s Tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium).

You've reminded me I have to have a tidy-up/clear out of my houseplants. I have far too many and some are only hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Not the green glory I hoped they would be... :-(

Thanks, Sheila.

Love this Linda. It’s just idyllic! And you have captured so much joy in it.

Well, I watched it tonight. I used to have the start of a passion flower obsession. The truth is they are huge plants and the tender ones cannot be contained in a domestic setting (conservatory) . They also leak sticky sap. So my advice would be stick to the hardy ones! Interesting propagation hack!

Thanks Klahanie.

It must be making new roots Balc, which is a good thing. You'll be looking forward to spring to see everything in flower!

Though it's been in the new tub for almost a month now there is no sign of new growth. That's probably a good sign as it wouldn't have time to harden off before the frosts begin.

There are 10 or 15 Daffodils planted under it as well as a few other bulbs that were in the tub when I emptied it out & put new compost in its place.

A few weeks ago I also planted some Violas around the rose. Now the tub won't look like a tub with a twig in it all winter! 🤣 🤣 🤣

My son is going to bring me some bags of old compost to put in the planters & I also have a few bags I am planning on putting in them.

Now that I haven't got an allotment I'm finding it difficult to get rid of the used compost. But when I changed the compost in the hanging baskets this year - after several years use - I took all the old compost & put it in one of the planters around the cash machine, (that was before I put plants in them back in July), it soon became the local WC for the cats around here!

As I didn't have enough at the time for all 3 planters the other 2 escaped the cats' attention! When I put the Cosmos seedlings in the first planter I wore gloves but the plants were unfazed! The cats didn't harm the little plants either using it as their toilet.

I may make a start on Wednesday with removing the Geraniums & Fuchsias from the one nearest the road & work my way through the 3 tubs over a few days.

Of course Shirley, and the best way to be. You could plant something quite tall to privatise yourselves, if you haven't already..:)

I think they can get quite woody. Maybe a good prune would help it..

Janey, I'm resigned to it now ... :o(