I’ve been out in the garden with my camera to take a snapshot of how it looks in November. It’s still quite passable, provided you don’t look too closely. I’ve done a bit of cutting down and tidying up, need to do more, but the great thing with a camera is you can choose what not to show. Filmed 15th & 16th November 2023.
The garden in November
garden ruminations 
Who would think we have had storms and heavy rain, your garden is looking great and it was good to enjoy many plants that I would not have room to grow. The Cyclamen hederifolium were from seed from silver leaved forms I have had for several years now, and also ones such as ‘Lysander; silver arrow forms, silver shield and others that I bought originally from John Massey’s nursery. They do make great ground cover in the winter, and the silver ones do shine out on gloomy days.
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The cyclamen really are great. I thought I had two potfuls of your seedlings when I planted them in their summer dormancy, but there must only have been one. I was planning on growing others in pots. They’re doing well though so I’m hopeful that come next summer/autumn they’ll flower well and I can get another batch of seedlings going. I’ve several pots of seedlings from Cyclamen Society seed going but none look as good as those from you. Thank you again for the seed.
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Thanks for the November tour of your garden – it’s still looking great!
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Love your garden stories
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Very nice visit with a rainbow blessing.
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I enjoyed the tour. Especially the grasses. I had Miscanthus and loved it but it always flopped into a flat blob! The idea of Camellias in full sun is mind boggling! They look great as does the greenhouse.
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One of the problems with the internet being everyone’s first port of call for information about growing things is that you lose the local growing conditions element. Light levels are often quite low here and that can need compensating for when compared to more southerly or dryer places.
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Camellias are ubiquitous in the Deep South US, there must be more or stronger light here. You are right about the internet, I think there is this idea that plants can be somehow classified to make it easy to select what will grow where. Not so.
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Thank you! Love your videos of your garden.
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