Took these photos in our garden yesterday. Just as well, we had a frost overnight, so some aren’t looking quite as happy today.
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Here the choisya is flowering like mad, fuchsias and geraniums are still going strong, the autumn crocuses have been and gone and there a few stalwart roses still in bloom.
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What is this? never heard of it? I’ve been very negligent of my garden this year (particularly with water) but my beloved cosmoses are amazing (and in fact I have new self seeded ones popping up every where!).
I have some gorgeous huge head mums that I bought in a pot and I love them! They look fabulous. Will they keep somehow until next year or are they an annual?? I tried to look up but read that chyrsanthynums are either / or - which really helped new gardener from the southern hemisphere 
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Our neighbour has a beautiful hedge of this dividing our garden’s 
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I quite like the effect of that small rosemary, both my bushes are the much bigger ones, I might look out for one ofthose in the spring (or take a cutting from my neighbour!
So pretty! Does it smell like oranges?
I’m so happy that my cosmos have survived the frost, today the small one at the back had 2 bees and a butterfly on it!
I had no idea there was a choice of Rosemary… my bush is rather old and straggly now.
Do you mean the leaves and/or flowers are bigger on your plants???
@toryroo
Choisya smells a bit like orange blossom but not as strong, and the leaves are aromatic when crushed too.
I get very few flowers but the stems are much thicker and each ‘leaf’ is also much bigger and spikier, massively pungent as well, amazing for cooking. I’ll upload a pic tomorrow and if you want some I’ll send you some cuttings, I did some last winter and they all took (well maybe 80%) until I then left them in small pots and didn’t water them even then they hung on for months and months over the summer waiting to be planted, poor things!
I shall have a research and see if I can find some as I love the look of it! I’m sure one of the pepineries in Bergerac would have them?
