Another seven for autumn: favourite balcony colours & plants
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 Here's another post inspired by Gayla's “Seven things (plus some extra fun things at the end)” meme: seven favourite colours & plants in my balcony garden these past three autumns (2007-09).
1) Purple Violas
This variety is 'Plum Velvet'. It has shown resilience and vigour -- it survived heat and drought while I was unexpectedly away from my garden for 5 days in late September.
2) Red-violet pansies
3) Yellow violas
'Lemon Chiffon', a sunny face on a grey, rainy fall day.
4) Black mondo grass (Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens')
An excellent foil for other plant colours and textures:
5) Acer palmatum dissectum 'Inaba shidare'
Both photos taken the same day showing colour variation between leaves at the top of the tree and those at the bottom.
6) Heuchera 'Peach Flambe'
Top photo taken a few days ago; bottom photo, two years ago.
Confession: In the top photo, the heuchera is in its new "home" (since spring), the partially shaded rockery in my Mom's garden. It's much happier there than in the container on my balcony where it was getting cramped plus occasionally sun-baked.
7) White Westie - Technically fauna rather than flora but he likes to plant himself in the sun between the black mondo grass (Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' ) and Heuchera 'Obsidian'.
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Your dog looks blissfully happy! I like your red maple.
Yes, he's literally soaking up the sun on a warm day in late September. I was trying to photograph JUST the plants but he wouldn't move. He literally made himself like a heavy stone when I tried to lift him. So I just incorporated him into the shot.