What's holding up in the late garden.

[redcrx]

Many plants have fallen apart and given up for the season. Some are still standing out - here are a few. The Velvet Moon was shown in another post a couple of weeks ago but looks as good as ever today.

[Linda P]

Ed, I will have to go around and look today. We've gotten in to a long dry spell, after having rain
2 or 3 times a week all year long. I have not watered, just haven't had the time or energy.
I have a lot of hostas that suffered in the heat, many of the white or cream edged ones lost
their edges long ago, including some that never have before.
I just told someone the other day that I need to stop moaning about the ones that look awful,
and just look at the ones that are still holding up. I'll see what's out there today, and get back to you!
That Velvet Moon is looking spring fresh!!!

Linda P

[jgh]

My hail-damaged garden is looking mighty tired - but yesterday I noticed Avocado looks absolutely terrific. Magnificent plant, and still giving me some nice fragrant flowers, even though the fragrant ones bloomed very early this year and are mostly done...

[redcrx]

A couple of shots of a Tokudama Aureonebulosa that I got from Chris last season.

[thy]

Halcyon , June and her off spring are allways a pleasure late summer, so is Blue Mouse Eyes.
Emerald Ruff Cut had shown to be a good one the last years and it is still very lovely in the blue pot
Bolt out of the Blue and Deja Blu...it had a microscopic white line in one leaf this year LOL are holding up well too

[redcrx]

My Deja Blu has never had that white line - probably not enough sun on it. I did pick up El Capitan which has that white line. Li'l Abner has it but I didn't get a good picture this season. I picked up Toy Soldier this season - it's supposed to have a thin white line but it's too small. Found a Gold Standard sport that put up a white line.
(Some of thse shots may have been on other topics.) This probably should have been a separate topic - "White Line Separators" - not counting the obvious Striptease and its sports.

Crystal Moon is still showing well. It looks like Fragrant Bouquet. I didn't see any flowers on it to compare with my FB.

[Chris_W]

Things sure look good in the garden Ed. Have you been getting a lot of rain this year? Seems like most of your pictures the plants look wet. I'm envious!

That Crystal Moon looks like a dead ringer to Fragrant Bouquet so I looked it up in the registration and it says that it has fragrant flowers which is basically impossible. The leaves aren't right, the flowers aren't right, bloom time not right, veins and substance not right, etc. I'd bet any money it was just a mislabeled August Moon that someone mistook for a sport when it was young and this is just Fragrant Bouquet with a different name. It has happened plenty of times before and will likely happen again.

Chris

[redcrx]

Hi Chris, I have a sprinkler system. I get the best light in the morning when they are still wet.

Would you know if Don has a list plants with that white highlight separating the center from the margin?

[thy]

Very nice sported leaf on Gold Standard, your El Capitain is beautiful, how old is it ?
Pia

[redcrx]

I picked up the El Capitan this season. It was a large pot from a local grower. I had a problem with the ID and posted the question here - Dave (DBoweMD) came up with the ID.

Here is a picture of that Gold Standard leaf earlier in the season:

[redcrx]

Some more late photos with some of the late bloomers:

[irawon]

I was doing fall clean-up chores today and noticed that the following plants were showing no deteoration in my zone 5a garden: 'Halcyon', 'June', 'Pewterware, 'Captain Kirk', 'St. Paul', 'Yellow River', 'Brother Stephan', 'Dream Queen', 'Aristocrat' , 'Blue Jay', 'Nancy', 'Queen Josephine', 'Rhino Hide', 'Touch of Class', 'Frances Williams','Risky Business' whereas others such as 'Plantagenea', 'Alex Summers' seem to have colder weather damage. My observation is that the thicker foliage varities fare better as colder weather approaches,and that some hostas may be located in more protected areas of the garden. Some of the thinner hostas such as the Tiaras don't do as well in colder weather in relation to plants such as 'Mauii Buttercups and 'Cerveza'. As I'm no expert, this is my humble opinion.

[irawon]

It's a beautiful fall day and I thought I would try my hand at downloading some pictures from my garden. Here,goes! Sorry, I'm having trouble finding that browse button I'm supposed to click. I have an IMac. As you can clearly see I'm not too computer literate!!!

[Chris_W]

Hi Irawon,

Sorry about the confusion. Actually, on the Mac (Safari), they realize that the word "Browse..." doesn't really have any meaning. So on that system it says "Choose File". So click the tab that says "add picture or file" and then click on the button next to filename that says Choose File. From there hopefully you can figure it out, but if not just let me know.

Good luck!

Chris

[irawon]

Thanks for your reply, Chris.
I think the reason that I'm having difficulty downloading my pictures is that their pixel size is too big. I have not been able to find a way to reduce the file size, either on IPhoto or on Photobucket. If ViolaAnn is viewing this thread, perhaps she may have a suggestion for me???

[Chris_W]

Hi Irawon,

In iPhoto:

1) Double click to select the picture you want to use.
2) Go up to "File" and select "Export...".
3) The screen should be on the File Export section
----- For Kind select JPEG
----- For JPEG Quality select Medium
----- For Size select Custom and then use Max dimension and enter about 800 to 1000
4) Click on Export and then rename your filename so that it ends with .JPG

For example, here is Hosta 'Spinach Souffle' using these settings with 800 pixels wide, medium quality, and it is an 88kb file size. Looks pretty good

Hope that helps!

Chris

[irawon]

Thanks for your patience ,Chris. I followed your instructions to the end. My file of H. 'Risky Business' was moved to my desktop. I copied "img" from above and tried to insert the jpg file in the spot where the cursor was flashing. I previewed my reply but no image showed up. therefore, I'm trying the URL method above, to direct Hallson's to my hosta pictures taken on October 5, 2010. Hope that works.http://s1025.photobucket.com/home/irawon

Glory Hallelujah! It worked.

Sorry,redcrx, for temporarily hijacking your thread with my problem.

[renaldo75]

Amazingly after all of the excess water in the garden and then the heat and then more excess water.... you get the idea.
What looks the best are the fragrants [although a lot still look pretty good - while others are fried] - Iron Gate Glamour looks like spring
and sent up a scape that's about halfway thru blooming. Stained Glass & Avacado look perfect. Shiny and beautiful. And today I noticed
that Invincible looks very good too. Bright, shiny and finally sending up a scape!! It gets a lot of midday sun, shaded in the afternoon.
Everything else around it has either been singed or fried to a crisp. Ginsu Knife especially didn't hold up there at all.

[Linda P]

As I've been making the rounds of my garden beds, dragging the hose; yes, watering, after a summer
that gave us more than twice the average amount of rainfall, but not a drop of rain for the last couple of weeks;
I've noticed a number of late year standouts.
Two that come to mind are Athena and Ming Treasure. They look positively spring-time fresh, at the end
of the most humid, hot, blistering summer we've had in a while. As Reldon mentioned, everything in the
Fragrant Bouquet family is still fine; Stained Glass, Cathedral Window, Holy Mole, Guacamole, Fried Bananas,
Fried Green Tomatoes, and Fragrant Bouquet herself. Many of these are in 5-6 hours or more of sun a day, and
didn't burn or fall apart in the extreme heat. Kiwi Full Monty, and indeed most of the
Striptease family, are all looking fine. I was looking at Antioch yesterday, and noticed that it has not lost a
single edge anywhere on the entire huge plant. Talk about an oldie but goodie! Of course, the Halcyon family
is also holding up well. I particularly like Katherine Lewis and Paradise Joyce in the fall...they get brighter
as the year wears on, where June gets darker. Touch of Class still looks great, too.

[renaldo75]

Linda is right about the Halcyon family too. I noticed back in August in a friend's garden that while most looked a bit fried even if they were in bloom that anything in the Halcyon/June family still had the substance to look good.