A Feeling of Suspense

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Almost every garden blogger I read (in the northern hemisphere anyway) seems to be writing about the same thing, it's what Eleanor  Perenyi describes as "... a feeling of suspense: When will the curtain fall?".
The weather is still mild and and the cool evenings have given certain plants the conditions they like best. The Arums have taken advantage of  cooler conditions to throw up a fan of dramatically marked leaves, that grab the last few days of autumn sunshine.
 Helleborus niger 'Preacox' has sent up flowers as well as foliage and will be in bloom well into early December. It can take the cold winter weather and will still have a few flowers left in the Spring, however the marginally hardy Mexicans Amicia zygomeris and Salvia leucantha will have to be lifted soon and brought into the greenhouse before the curtain falls.
Arum italicum

Arum italicum 'Chameleon'

Helleborus niger 'Preacox'

Amicia zygomeris

Salvia leucantha

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