Fatsia are strange plants - palmate leaves like outstretched hands which fall short of being attractive or so I always thought until last year in November, when almost everything else had started to fade and I noticed their flowers which had exploded like extra-ordinary pod forms with a sense of 1950's style about them, made me smile!
Fresh colours which aren't at all autumnal, and seem to fit the elegant forms of these odd umbrels...

...from my seasonal colour sample notebook.
Fresh colours which aren't at all autumnal, and seem to fit the elegant forms of these odd umbrels...

...from my seasonal colour sample notebook.