What do you have blooming now?

Poor rosemary - oh, don't tread on it LOL
I love the very low creeping thymes and have them between paving etc. This is a photo I took of the thyme lawn at Sissinghurst http://plantsdatabase.com/showpicture/2794/. It's been there for years, but it has paving around it - the visitors aren't allowed to walk on it. Understandable as they are the most visited garden in the UK!

Thanks for the welcome, I have been hanging out on DG for a month or so.
My Camillias are small, I have only been on my property for two years, and I planted them this year.
It's mainly Sasanquas blooming in the fall, but the other day a Japonica opened and I have a photo of it. I don't have a name for it. I bought 10 plants with no tags cheap, so it's a suprise when they open. All are very pretty though.

That's a beauty Paintedlady
Are Sasanquas the spp that are scented? I love them, they're smaller and more delicate looking

That is a very beautiful flower. Thank you for sharing it :) Like you, I have many plants that are either unnamed or they were wrongly tagged. Finding out what they are is an interesting twist on gardening -- becoming a part-time detective!

Rosemary only grows well where the woman rules the house.

Currently having at least one flower in the garden

Acanthus mollis
Geum Princes Juliana
Borage (seedling shot up in August)
Passiflora caerulea
Buddleia Dark Knight
Trailing Nasturtium
Pansies
Primroses
Viburnum bodnantense Dawn
Solanum jasmioides has buds
Jasminum nudiflorum
Cymbalaria muralis
Calluna x3
Erica x2
Persicaria

Greenhouse
Pelargoniums
Felicia
Fuchsia Nancy Lou
Salvia elegans

Indoors
Lachenalia alioides
Paphiopedilum
Oncidium hybrid
Ludisia discolor
Encyclia
Viola hederacea (buds which won't amount to much)



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Well noone else here to dispute that one Baa ROFL

You've got a very impressive list there!!

Rosemary never grows well for me so they live with Mom.

You also have an impressive list, we tried to plant for year round interest, much of it is leaf and bark colour this time of year but both front and back gardens are a complete mess. I'd grow more indoors but I'm relegated to 6 square feet of space in the middle of the greenery as it is. I need that space to get to the kettle but the remaining worktop in the kitchen is currently stacked up with plants. It's just an excuse not to cook too many stews and pastries *G*

nice bloom Paintedlady. UH Baa where is the place where the woman does NOT rule the house..and where do you get tickets to go there?? LOL

;) kikisdad

Do you have special lights over your indoor plants Baa?
It sounds as if your 6 square feet and the surrounding area might be worth a photo........

Kikisdad

Neither of my grandmothers ruled their house, nor do I .... Oh no I come from a long line of subservient women!!!

Philomel

Calling my bluff on my exaggeration *G*. When the spring comes and half the seedlings are taking over the carpet space I'll take a photo.

Now I know why my rosemary looks so woebegone!

I'm no expert on Camellias but I love the flowers and it is nice to have them since they bloom when nothing else does.

In my garden the Sasanquas have smaller leaves, the flowers are in general smaller and many are single. On the other hand the Sasanquas usually have clusters of many buds. They bloom in the fall and early winter. If it gets really cold it seams the buds take a nap and then bloom again in the spring.

None of my Camellias have any fragrance to talk about. I'm guessing that since there are no insects at this time a year there is no reason for them to be fragrant.

This photo is of a Sasanqua called Cleopatra. Very heavy bloomer with tons of buds

Here's a Sasanqua appropriatley named Noel
Bright red and blooming around Christmas.

I have about ten Camellias at my old house that are pretty big. The girl that rents it now says they are in the way. She wants the patio area bigger so I'm going to go dig them all up soon. Some people are crazy! But it's good for me, I'm moving them all to my new property.

Paintedlady, I guarantee the new owners will sorely regret losing their shaded patio next summer! But how fortunate for you. Your camellias are magnificent!!!!

Interesting that you have no insects around now: on sunny days here, even in the 30's a few insects are flying around. Mostly flies and moths, bees are mostly dormant (just a few out and about during the winter). We also have a few butterflies that survive winters that take a quick flutter during sunny winter days. A very good reason to plant flowering things for them.


Baa, you sure do win (in the Northern Hemisphere). I am going to try to get our Southern Hemisphere friends to post here. Wonder, Cristina, Bruno, all you other wonderful friends from Australia, South America, South Africa, where are you? Let us share your gardens please!!!!!

It has been a joy to read this thread, and a learning exercise as well. Knowing what bloom in the different zones of USA during Fall, I can used that info to apply it to the area where I live.

Down south , we're finishing Spring and getting into Summer, so at the moment I have a sea of colour all around the garden. The weather has been naughty all through the year , so I was forced to sow twice some annuals (it rained and hailed so much that I lost all my Hemerocallys seedling (I'm very sorry Pardacanda!) and many vegies and herbs.

Let's see what I do have blooming now :

Roses, miniature pink, red, salmon and white.
Standard all flowering well. I've got 9 plants .
Floribundas different colours
Tea roses
Climbing roses. All the Climbers are fragrant.

Some Azaleas are still with flowers , also the 3 Rododendros that we have here in the yard, colours are white whith a pinkish hue, another deep purple and a redish pink.

I did plant a couple of Clematis that I got through a trade but it is not in flower and perhaps I will not see it blooming. All depend when I would be leaving.

In this area the Fuchsias grow very well. I have Bush or upright Fuchsias, Trailing Fuchsias and the 2 native Mini Fuchsias , the flowers of the minis are very small but they cover the bush completely.

Another that grows like weed, in these area are the Pelargoniums and they are getting heavy with all those lovely and colourful blooms. They're all fragrant.

Another peennial that is blooming , the Hydrangea macrophylla , Hortensias mop-head they do very well in this area. I've got whites, pink , some blues and they do tell me how is the pH of the site in the garden where they are.Blue in highly acidic soils and lilac to pink in slightly acidic to alkaline soils. I haven't add anything to the soil so you can see the difference that can be found in a garden. The areas where I have been adding compost and mulch are more into the alcalinne side.

If anyone has them and want to change their colour you can add aluminum sulfate to the soil to make the flowers bluer or add lime to the soil to make the flowers pinker .Now you're just in time to treat the soil well in advance of flowering, as in late autumn or early winter is the soil is not covered with snow, otherwise in early spring you can still do it.

I will leave it up to here. Someone is at the door. I started this yesterday and I was interrupted so I did leave it for today : so I better send it as it is.

cristina

Cristina, how beautiful your garden sounds!!!! You have pelargoniums that have scented blooms???? I can't even begin to imagine. And the roses just beginning to bloom. In my mind's eye and nose I am with you in your garden. Thank you for sharing.

Everyone else in the Southern Hemisphere, please, please, share your gardens with us!!!!!

Just took up gardening in March this year after we did a complete garden installation. We have a 'cottage garden' look with many different plants for variety. Here in Nor. California, post-Xmas, is what's blooming:
-purple pansies, pink stock, yellow primroses in planter pots; pink pelagoniums/blue lobelia/white bacopa in planter
In the yards: pink coleonema, 3 leptospermums (1 white, 1 purple, 1 'spoon daisy' type), 2 rhaphiolepsis, several white-flowering heuchera, dwarf loropetalum (Chinese fringe flower), pink leptospermum, rudbeckia, iberis sempervirens, linarium maroccana 'Northern Lights', helianthemum 'Yellow Symphony', clethra alnifolia, gentian sage, tagetes lemonii, Argyran 'Ruby Slippers', Meyer Lemon, lavender 'Hidcote', white and purple alyssum, geranium 'Johnson's Blue', convolvulus mauritanicus, euryops, lantana (white and purple trailers, red and 'peaches & cream' shrub types), scaevola, purple hardenbergia vine, dwarf plumbago, dark red daylilies (unnamed), solanum aviculare (purple-flowering potato shrub), solanum crispum (white-flowering potato vine), pink-flowering variegated pelargonium, helianthemum 'Orange Symphony', bougainvillea 'Ruby Ice', yellow and red kalanchoe, red-flowering pentas, cuphea hyssopifolia, brachyscome multifida, ground-cover ageratum, polygonum capitatum, dwarf marigolds, abutilon (dark red 'Naples' and variegated leaf 'Thompsonii'), white calla lilies, orange canna lilies, New Guinea impatiens, bidens ferufolia, about a dozen cyclamen, heliotrope 'Black Beauty', shrub cestrums (red- and orange-flowering), dwarf dianthus, gazanias (white, purple, yellow and orange), erysimum 'Bowles Mauve', nemesia 'Blue Bird', pink-flowering angel's wing begonia (yup, that's surprising everyone!), tibouchina urvilleana, white-flowering begonia semperflorens, hydrangea, and an unusual yellow-flowered variegated vinca minor.
Whew! but really, it's winter here and there'll be much more by March (which is our springtime). Saw a pretty green hummingbird last week, sipping at the cestrum and abutilon. This is snail-fighting time too, get out the Sluggo!

Are you SURE you live in US? *giggle* I envy your long season. Are you frost-free? Your garden sounds wonderful *sigh*

We're very close to the coast, about 25 mi. away, so we get a few more days of frost (San Francisco gets 3 frost days/yr, Oakland gets maybe 7-10). But we're up near the hills so one problem is twice a year we will get very strong winds. Some of our plants really got knocked around recently, a beautiful 5' tall centaurea was literally ripped out of the ground so I'll have to take it out or cut it back completely, it just looks awful. And all my beautiful Pennisetum Rubrum clumps fell over too. But California really is a great place to garden. We just ignore the earthquakes, that's all [grin].

Look at the down side -- it's hard to grow the stuff that needs winter chill, like decent apples, bulbs like tulips and hyacinths, or forsythias, for example. We have a maple tree in the backyard, and because it never gets truly cold here, the leaves don't turn nice colors, they just get an ugly yellow-brown, then wither completely and fall off. Yuck!

On 12/29 the sky cleared up, the temp shot up to almost 50, and the snow all melted. I went out to try to get some more fall chores done and I discovered 2 more plants still blooming:

hardy plumbago
monkshood (aconitum)

This morning I was out cutting up evergreens for mulch, and I discovered my first Snow Drop bud (galanthus nivulus). Not open, but definitely above-ground! Yippee!!!! Hopefully soon the snow iris will start showing, also the winter aconites and species crocus :)

Almost worth going out in the winter to see these beauties.

What do you mean "almost" Kathy LOL!
Nothing like being outside on a crisp winter's day - and it's so nice when you go back in again too :)