There aren’t many flowers still blooming in the garden, a couple of frosts have seen to that, but there a few stalwarts still hanging on in there.
Most of the roses have finished flowering, but Bonica keeps going.
The odd new flower keep surprising me on the hydrangeas.
Heuchera Rio is still flowering, putting up new flowers in spite of the colder weather.
My neglected Clematis Rouge Cardinal is still flowering away, it was determined to stay alive.
Fuchsia Whiteknights Blush is still flowering away.
And Fuchsia Delta Sarah is still putting out new flowers.
Erigeron karvinskianus has almost finished flowering but not quite yet.
Penstemon Snowsrorm had flowered for a good 6 months, fantastic plant.
Fuchsia magellanica is another plant that has flowered for about 6 months, such good value.
There are still quite a few Cyclamen hederifolium flowering in the woodland.
At last, Liriope muscari is flowering, it seems to be late this year.
A couple of weeks ago Jasminum nudiflorum started flowering, this should be with us for a while now.
Mahonia Charity by the front drive has just started to open it’s flower buds, these flowers will be with us for a while, they don’t mind the frost.
Not quite open, but another plant that will flower on and off all winter is Viburnum Bodnantense Dawn.
Not flowers, I know, but the seeds of Iris foetedissima are much brighter than the rather dull flowers earlier in the year.
I keep looking at the Quince by the back door, the buds have formed, but none are showing any colour yet. Once it starts flowering it will be with us until April. Also… sh…….I have some snowdrops pushing up, soon it will be that time of year again!
The winter flowers overlap with the last of the summer and autumn flowers, so we are never completely without some colour in the garden, all are welcome, especially in the dark dreary winter months.
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Oh I remember your ‘Bonica’ from previous years Pauline – she’s a star. My first snowdrops are out now namely ‘Peter Gatehouse’ and ‘Faringdon Double’ . ‘Fieldgate Prelude’ and a lost label one are not so far behind 🙂 Exciting days!
Your snowdrops are ahead of mine Anna, are yours in the garden or the greenhouse? All mine are outside and have to take whatever the weather throws at them, Faringdon Double won’t be out for a while yet.
Beautiful! Happy Tuesday ♥
Thank you Summer, I hope you have a good week!
The wonderful thing about a garden is the way it keeps giving and giving; with something new beginning its season each week almost. Along with plants that flower outside their regular season your garden seems to be full of colour. The just opening flower spikes on your Mahonia Charity are so attractive even before the flowers open releasing their perfume. It almost looks like some kind of fern.
Not full of colour Christina, the flowers are dotted round the garden, I could do with a border where they are all together! I think the Mahonia Charity will appear next week in your Foliage Day!
I think that’s a lovely selection of flowers for this time of year Pauline. I start to forget that others have ‘garden activity’ all year round! I love the Mahonia Charity – I also thought it was a fern at first! I have a Mahonia, I don’t know which one as it was here when we bought the house, but it tends to spread and comes up in the middle of the conifers!
I would imagine gardening stops for you Denise, once the snow starts, even the grass here doesn’t stop growing! I think your Mahonia may be M. aquifolium, I have one and it spreads quite a bit, low growing and the flowers are more like bunches of grapes, clustered together.
You are so lucky to never have a complete halt to the garden season. Soon snow and ice will cover the ground here but at least I can enjoy your first quince blooms and then the return of snowdrops in your garden to tide me over!
I wish mahonia were hardier, for some reason I find their blooms to be very cheerful on a not quite freezing winter day.
We are lucky, yes, Frank, but my muscles and back would like a rest please!
New flowers keep coming each month, we do occasionally get snow here but not very often, we enjoy it while it lasts and just hope that the flowers underneath are ok, they usually are. I know what you mean about the Mahonia, the flowers standing upright look very bright and perky don’t they?
We are lucky to live in climates that allow for winter blooms and constant gardening but I remember gardening in a cold climate where the garden was put to bed in September and covered with a blanket of snow for months. While that long break from gardening was nice and gave time for other projects, it truly is wonderful to have some color in the garden year round, especially during the wet dark dreary winter months! Happy belated GBBD!
I do like our 4 different seasons Peter and this time of year is just as good as the height of summer, but in a different way. This time of year is so busy with all the leaf sweeping, I kid myself that it’s keeping me fit!
Your garden keeps on giving. That is a nice Penstemon–mine don’t bloom nearly so long.
Penstemons are such wonderful plants aren’t they Susie, they really earn their place in the garden. Another that flowers non stop in the garden here is Garnet.
Here we are in mid-November – isn’t it lovely to be able to wander round the garden and find such a variety of blooms. An advantage of living in the mild, but often wet, South-West. you have some great flowers still hanging on.
I agree Sue, finding flowers in November is very special. Yes we have the wet to contend with, but we enjoy much milder weather than when we used to live in the North West!
When I opened up your post I wondered if your quince might be flowering! Good to see what’s hanging on in your garden – the frost got my F magellanica last week!
No Cathy, I’m afraid the quince isn’t flowering yet. Part of it has died and the rest really needs cutting back, but I don’t want to cut the buds off.
We had snow this morning, which is very unusual for us in November! Driving along through the next village this morning seemed really weird, beautiful autumn tints from the ancient beech trees, as though you are driving through a fire, when suddenly there was a blizzard! All gone now though, back to normal wet.
Some lovely plants here, good to have flora at this time of the year. I loved the iris seedheads, Chloris sent me this plant last year, my seedheads are well gone now.xxx
Thanks Dina, flowers at this time of year are so very precious as there are far fewer of them. The berries provide much needed colour and the Iris seedheads are so bright in the woodland where everything else is dying back.
Just got a Charity mahonia this year! So excited for its flowers… And of course, Delta Sarah makes me swoon. Really love that plant, and with every month I see it in your posts, it climbs higher on my wish list.
The Mahonia is a beautiful shrub Anna, I’m sure you will enjoy yours! Delta Sarah is favourite Fuchsia, she has such beautiful flowers for 6 months of the year, I hope you find one soon.
The Iris seeds are surprisingly beautiful. My rose ‘Cassie’ is still blooming as well. I just never thought of Fuchsias as November flowers.
The roses and fuchsias are slowing down Jason, not putting out as many flowers now, but still enough for me to enjoy, before cutting the plants back for the winter..
These hangers on are precious but look better in close-up, ignoring their companions who have not been so sturdy. Penstemons give good value at this time of the year, shrugging off the minor frosts.
I agree Ian, that’s why I took them in close up! Penstemons are such good value at any time of year, flowering so reliably non stop with just a bit of deadheading.