Carolina Gardening: Merry Chrsitmas Carolinians, 1 by ardesia

ardesia wrote:
Each year I spend a few minutes walking around the garden making a photographic record of what is blooming in the garden on Christmas day. It helps me to remember why I live in this beautiful but bug infested spot. This morning I found alstroemeria,5 tropical hibiscus, Bolivian Sunflower, Mexican Tarragon, various roses, sasanquas, camellias, New Guinea and regular impatiens, several scutellaria, viburnum, mexican heather, hydrangea, Iceland poppies, sedums, asclepias, abutalon, bouvarida, turks cap hibiscus, lantana, geraniums, pentas and salvia involucrata (pictured below) which just started blooming for me. It will continue through May then it will hibernate through the hot months.

I even found a red tomato in the compost pile and an inflo on a plumeria.