Rainy Sunday afternoon...

Well only just started raining. The morning and early afternoon was wonderful, sunny and warm. I thought I had cut the grass for the last time a few weeks ago, but the warm weather has meant it needed to be done again today. Hopefully, this really is the last time. While mowing you see all those other little jobs that need doing too!

One of the best plants right now are the fuschias that seem to be peaking now and growing strongly. With luck they will flower until the frosts, then the flowers and leaves will all drop. They are particularly welcome as they are right by the kitchen door and there is another a few yards further on. They bring a lovely exotic touch..all I need now is a hummingbird to complete the picture!

Web updates

I've now created a new page for Cyclamen africanum based on pictures of the flowers taken in September and leaves taken this month. The page is at http://markgriffiths.org/inspiringplants/cyclamen/cyclamen_africanum.html

I've also added a number of US nurseries for Cyclamen for those US visitors looking for suppliers, they can be found under "Links".

Cyclamen are very much to mind at the moment, the season progresses with Cyclamen cyprium out now and Cyclamen elegans and Cyclamen persicum budding up nicely. Also the seed from the Cyclamen Society http://www.cyclamen.org/indexCS.html has arrived this week so there are 30 packets of seed to soak and plant.

Website updates

At last I've got some pages up using the new camera to it's full advantage. So today I've loaded two new Cyclamen pages, http://markgriffiths.org/inspiringplants/cyclamen/cyclamen_mirabile.html covers the Cyclamen mirabile a species in flower now with pink marbled leaves. Cyclamen cilicium, a closely related but easy garden plant is at http://markgriffiths.org/inspiringplants/cyclamen/cyclamen_cilicium.html
On the latter page there is also a view of the newly planted small cyclamen bed.