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30 September through 13 October 2019

Autumn is here. The garden is slowing down. The first leaves on the Nyssa sylvatica are putting on their fabulous fiery show.

Last week Louisa and I sewed the wildflower meadow with poppies, chamomile, corncockle and cornflower and barley. It will be nice to see how it turns out in the spring.

This week we started moving the tender plants in pots into their winter homes, mostly into the tropical corridor. The citrus were put into the polyhut to overwinter. Winter protection has started.

This year we are going to do our best to stop using single-use plastic (aka zip ties), returning to twine. It will be interesting to see how much longer this takes. Last year we erected all the structures in record time due mostly to the fact that zip ties are so much faster to utilise than sewing twine through bubble wrap or fleece.

Friday after work I headed to Kew to collect a long-awaited Kerria japonica for the Asian woodland garden. They are surprisingly difficult to find; only the various cultivars are readily available and I only want the species and this one was wild collected, so bonus!

Plant ident of autumn climbers by Louisa

Cannabaceae Humulus lupulus 'Wye Northdown'

Convolvulacea Ipomoea lobata

Curcubitaceae Lagenaria siceraria

Curcubitaceae Luffa aegyptiaca

Geraniaceae Pelargonium [Antik Violet] = ‘TikVio’ (Antik Series)

Leguminaceae Lablab purpureus

Malvaceae Abutilon x milleri

Polemoniaceae Cobaea scandens

Ranunculaceae Clematis tibetana subsp.vernayi

Vitaceae Vitis coignetiae

A funny story about the Ipomoea lobata. When I posted this to Tumblr, their idiotic algorithms thought it was adult content!

We are preparing for the Christmas Fair held in November, so we harvested 200 quince for one of our volunteers who will make delicious quince jam and sell it at the fair.

This stunning sight is on my way home from the station...

Last weekend I was in Paris visiting Lucien and François simply because “Paris is always a good idea.” (Audrey Hepburn) This weekend started with taco and jacuzzi night at Elizabeth and Rob’s on Friday. Saturday it never stopped raining which made doing all my errands a little wetter. I also booked some last-minute trips to see friends before the end of the year.

This morning I found these interesting mushrooms growing in the back garden. I fear it is hone fungus; a neighbouring Prunus suddenly died this summer!

Plant of the week 4 October

Convolvulaceae Ipomoea lobata (Cerv.) Thell.

common name(s) - Spanish flag, firecracker vine synonym(s) - Convolvulus mina Kuntze, Ipomoea mina Voss, Mina cordata Micheli, Mina lobata Cerv., Quamoclit lobata (Cerv.) House, Quamoclit pallescens Brongn. ex Neumann conservation rating - none native to - Mexico location - dicotyledon order beds, accession _____ leaves - three-lobed flowers - crimson-flushed stems bear one-sided racemes of small, tubular, dark red flowers which fade to orange and then a creamy yellow in summer habit - fast-growing, deciduous, twining climber to 5m tall habitat - no information found pests - galsshouse red spider mite disease - generally disease-free hardiness - to 5ºC (H1c) soil - moist and well-drained sand, chalk or loam sun - full sun, sheltered propagation - seed pruning - none nomenclature - Convolvulaceae - entwined, a name in Pliny; Ipomoea - worm-resembling, the sinuous twining stems; lobata - with lobes, lobed, lobus NB - AGM

References, bibliography:

Gledhill, David, (2008) “The Names of Plants”, fourth edition; Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 978-0-52168-553-5

IUCN [online] http://www.iucnredlist.org/search [13 Oct 19]

Plant List, The [online] http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro-8501920 [13 Oct 19]

Royal Horticultural Society [online] https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/45959/i-Ipomoea-lobata-i/Details [13 Oct 19]

Plant of the week 11 October

Araliaceae Tetrapanax papyrifer (Hook.) K.Koch

common name(s) - rice-paper plant; Chinese: 通草 tong cao synonym(s) - Aralia mairei H.Lév.; Aralia papyrifera Hook.; Didymopanax papyrifer (Hook.) K. Koch; Didymopanax papyriferus (Hook.) K.Koch; Echinopanax papyriferus (Hook.) Kuntze; Fatsia papyrifera (Hook.) Miq. ex Witte; Panax papyrifer (Hook.) F.Muell. conservation rating - Least Concern native to - China, Taiwan location - revolutionary fibres in the useful garden, accession _____ leaves - rosette of large leaves at the top carried on 400mm to 600mm petioles, the leaf blade orbicular, deeply palmately lobed with five to eleven primary lobes, the central lobes larger and Y-forked near the end; stems and bottom of leaves are covered with an indumentum which can be a lung irritant to some people; avoid looking up while cutting off a leaf above you because the indumentum will fall into your eyes, nose, throat and create quite a painful situation flowers - large panicle of hemispherical to globular umbels near the end of the stem; have four or five small white petals; fruit is a small drupe habit - semi-evergreen, to 7m tall, with usually unbranched stems habitat - forest in subtropical or tropical moist lowlands pests - generally pest-free disease - generally disease-free hardiness - to -10ºC (H4) soil - well-drained sand, chalk or loam sun - full sun to part shade, sheltered propagation - seed, removing suckers pruning - damaged, dead, diseased nomenclature - Araliaceae - aralia - origin uncertain, could be from French Canadian, aralie; Tetrapanax - four-partite, describing the floral structure; papyrifer - paper-bearing NB - monotypic genus; pith from the stem is used to make a substance commonly known as rice paper; more properly termed pith paper.

References, bibliography:

Gledhill, David, (2008) “The Names of Plants”, fourth edition; Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 978-0-52168-553-5

IUCN [online] https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/147626842/147626844 [13 Oct 19]

Plant List, The [online] http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-202449 [13 Oct 19]

Royal Horticultural Society [online] https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/191283/i-Tetrapanax-papyrifer-i-Rex/Details [13 Oct 19]

Wikipedia [online] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapanax [13 Oct 19]

#Ipomoea lobata #Tetrapanax papyrifer

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