{"id":1940,"date":"2016-10-20T03:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T17:27:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T21:27:11","slug":"fun-fall-tasks-terriers-and-couple-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2016\/10\/fun-fall-tasks-terriers-and-couple-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Mum Season Begins with Early Blooms and a Feature in Martha Stewart Living"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A very random bouquet of late fall blooming rarities from the garden. Tricyrtus hirta, Saxifrage fortunei, Allium thunbergeii, Cuphea viscosissima, a white bottle Gentian clausa var. alba and Daphne transcaucasica – all post-freeze survivors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Our first hard frost arrived last Friday, which knocked out the dahlias and most of the tender annuals. One season ends, while a new one begins in the greenhouse.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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It seems that every weekend has been booked since June, but I think my schedule slows down a bit beginning this weekend, which I cannot wait for. For example, this past weekend I attended a Dahlia Society demonstration, hosted the Primrose Society for a lunch, bought paint to paint the house, needed to sow seeds of bulbs in the greenhouse, and had to attend Joe’s pet project, a Halloween doggy dress up party in Connecticut.<\/p>\n
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The earliest of the large exhibition chrysanthemums are beginning to open. Derek Bircumshaw is always the first one to bloom on the large dis-buds. Keeping them dry requires fans, and time under glass at this point.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
I really wanted to drive down to the New York Botanic Garden for a personal tour that some officials offered me so that I could see their Kiku chrysanthemum exhibit which is up until the end of the month (I know that it is incredible as I have seen it before), and I wanted to attend the Tri State NARGS meeting – which I always seem to miss, but I just couldn’t find the time to do it all.<\/p>\n
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Last summer and autumn, the editors at Martha Stewart Living wanted to come see the chrysanthemums. I felt that they were not the best (this years are much better) but they still came – the results of that photoshoot can be seen in this months Thanksgiving issue.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nI’ll share much more about my ongoing chrysanthemum projects, and as I hinted at, they are being featured this month in the Thanksgiving Issue of Martha Stewart Living (I added some screenshots at the end of this post). I won’t be exhibiting any this year, since it seems that our northern grown mums bloom a few weeks later than those on Long Island, which happens to be where the nearest chapter of the American Chrysanthemum Society holds their exhibit. Maybe next year. For now, my chrysanthemums will stay in my greenhouse (but I may exhibit a few at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in mid November, so that others can see them up close).<\/p>\n
So, for now – some catch up on what’s been happening around the garden, and greenhouse.<\/p>\n
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We hosted the New England Chapter of the American Primrose Society last Saturday, and our friend Amy Olmsted from Vermont brought these treasures for us! – These hardy orchids have long been on my wish list. Spiranthes cernua ‘Chadds Ford’ will be set out in a special damp spot in the garden next weekend when I can find some time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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At my friend Mike Fusaro’s house this weekend in Connecticut, a lovely white fall-blooming Japanese Anemone reminded me about how much I love this plant. Any late blooming perennial, for that matter. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n