Don't they know its November?

These silly things are blooming...after snow and frost

and this

cleome

coral nymph salvia

is this an annual or perennial?

crocosoma,I'm sure this is spelled wrong and I'm REALLY sure its not suppose to bloom now......

Delphinium,I hope it opens all the way.....

I accidently left these in the ground,gotta get them up and in the GH

for-get-me-not

ladybells

spiderwort

and verbena...
also have tigerlilies,roses, and some other things blooming too.....

is everyone having these weird things happen?

I think it was the wacky cold spell and now the warmth. It's warm here anyway. I still have brugs on the deck-the ones that keep getting dragged from the deck to the kitchen. LOL It is about time to put them in the basement for the winter. Isn't it great to see something blooming besides mums though??? LOL

We have a couple spring flower bearing shrubs making minor blooms, Yesterdays frost will likely put an end to this. Ernie

My wierd thing was an inch of snow overnight, so enjoy it while it lasts.

Wow, you have more blooming now than I had all season! My lucifer, crocosmia, came up and then just sat there doing nothing.

When I was in D.C., Conn., and Mass. in August and visited the beautiful gardens I was very jealous. In south Texas we were struggling trying to keep our gardens surviving the heat. But now I still have dianthus, salvia, esparanza and plumbago blooming. And geraniums, snap dragons and petunias just beginning to bloom!

Well, I still have oodles of roses blooming in my part of the world..the West Coast of Canada! Elaine

Crestedchik, your corydalis looks fabulous1 Is that 'China Blue'? What do you do to it to make it look so good?

My Zebrina Malva refuses to give up! And of course, the mums are still blooming plus a few Batchelors Buttons & Forget me nots.

I didn't look at my Zebrinas today, but everything else is really gone now. The freeze hit us hard last night. It's looking pretty brown out there.

Karyn, you have some great plants. Love to look at your pictures.

I just grabbed some of the last plants from outside......

and took cuttings of the lions tail .....

the high saturday is suppose to be 33........

and lake effect starts tomorrow night........

Why OH why do I live here.......

Probably for the same reason I live here. We don't have to worry about lake effect, but it can snow a lot and be pretty darned cold. I don't care how cold it gets once it hits 10 below zero, at that point it is all miserable.

Our single digit nights finished everything off, so now I will just enjoy pictures of warmer times and happy plants while I clean up as much as I can before more snow and colder temps come.

I also have a lot of things still blooming, and a few days ago, working out in one of my perennial gardens, a lot of my tulips are up! Silly things think that spring came. Also my regular hyacinths. I added several inches of mulch, and I hope they go back to sleep. Not near enough cold yet to trigger bloom. Yep, one year they finished emerging by late December, never got any bloom the following spring. Silly bulbs!

Nothing blooming now...unless you can see under the snow....

No snow, just lots of dormant plants waiting for an Iowa winter. Sad, isn't it?

I am ready for winter. Bring me a nice Michigan blizzard.

Bird

Here's a photo from a previous year.