Tips & Tricks: November Blooms

the gas bill blooms

-- Central northish Ontario

Would you believe that my calendula are still in full bloom and I have snapdragons still blooming and budding too.The frost has totally destroyed all the others though.
Oh yeh and the hibiscus that I split into two plants are both blooming right now too only inside.And my african violets are blooming inside also.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

And I looked out my window
And what did I see?
A little pink flower
Staring back at me.

I have a single red rose in bloom. Oh so pretty and unexpected.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

I have lots of cheerful yellow mums still blooming by the door but they are starting to look pretty scraggly after some heavy rainstorms. I also have two small bushes producing beautiful little pink roses so I still have a little color left.

-- Robin, Massachusetts - "Live simply so others can simply live." M. Gandhi

My 8 ft. peach Brugmansia is still in bloom and since I covered it with Remay, it didn’t freeze last week. I also have several roses (white/blush pink, pink & orange), a purple iris (must be a rebloomer), azalea (rebloomer), rhododendrum (confused or rebloomer?), orange cosmos, zebra hollyhock – Malva sylvestris.

-- A weed is a plant that is growing where it was not purposefully placed by human hands.

malva.. I think that is what I just saw in my garden… tons of beautiful little flowers on the plant.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

Although I had to clear ice off the birdbath this am, I still have geraniums, spider plants, begonia and fushia blooming in flower pots that are too big for me to bring in. I have taken cuttings from the plants and just leave them to bloom until the frost gets them. I hate to pull the begonia until the frost does get the foliage on it. I have so many other things still blooming, little plants that apparently are protected by the fallen leaves. I have made a slideshow to show on a blog. If you have time, take a look. I think there are about 25 pics, taken this morning.

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

No flowers left in the garden that I can see. We’ve had a lot of HEAVY frost, so they are done. I did bring my brugs in and have some indoor flowers. They keep my wife company in her studio. LOL

-- jroot

that reminds me—I TOTALLY forgot to talk to your wife about her paintings when we met at the picnic!!
I had a wonderful opportunity and I let is slip by.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

The brug is beautiful, jroot. Your flowers must be inspiration for your DW’s painting. The glimpse of those in the background are marvelous!

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

That brug is absolutely beautiful Jroot.Thanks for sharing it with us.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

I thought that all was dead in the garden, but yesterday when I went to finish cutting it back, I found these surprises.

I guess there was still some life in the garden after all the frost we experienced.

-- jroot

wow nice jroot…..i still have a few, will post soon.

-- south shore montreal, zone 5a, whish it was 9

Nice shots Jroot.It’s so hard to cut back something that still looks that good.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

beautiful
that last shot looks like an inspiration for one of your wife’s paintings.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

Understanding that I am subtropical, my four o’clock just started blooming, the one that I ripped out of a shrub a month ago, then felt bad for the little black root?

A bromeliad, Billbergia pyramidalis, is blooming, but it’s the last of them for the year I think. And I think some Vriseas are finishing up. Geraniums are still going, and I’ve had early random blossoms on my azaleas this week.

I treat lots of annuals as perennials. Those geraniums have been blooming for two years steady now save when I cut them back. Ruellia and Catharanthus continue to bloom.

My hibiscus are happy that some few leaves in the tree canopy are falling. Now they are getting enough sun again to put on more than the one or two blossoms a day I had in August through October. All of my gingers and cannas have yellow leaves and no more blossoms, and my amaryllis and crinums have gone dormant for what will only be a few weeks really.

sounds so lovely!!!!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a) http://www.execulink.com/~yohan

Jroot, I especially like the photo you took of the feathery grasses in silhouette. Even though many of the flowers fade with the coming of fall in the temperate climates, there are still many non-flower colors, shapes and textures that catch one’s eye, especially now that they are not competing with many flowers. I am fond of my female Winterberry Holly bushes this time of year. The bright red berries really stand out now that most of the leaves are gone.

Thanrose, I had to smile when I read your story about the four o’clock that you felt you just had to replant. It is paying you back now for your earlier kindness.

-- Robin, Massachusetts - "Live simply so others can simply live." M. Gandhi

Sassafras albidum
Cornus florida
Hamamelis virginiana
Acer rubrum
Fraxinus americana ‘Autumn Purple’
Mums & Pansies, of course!

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-- Robert, Athens, www.vision-landscaping.com, www.adaptoedg.com

jroot, what is the name of your Brug in the picture? I do like it’s recurve.

-- N.E. Texas

She is a cross between Roth Kirch and Balao bred by Brug guru Monika in Germany. She certainly is a pretty one. I have been fleld testing her in Canada.

-- jroot