My favorite of course...4-nerve daisy
Show what is still green after the frost
lavender
green santolina
holly fern
How's this for blooming yet ..silly things came up after I had planted them thinking it would be spring before I saw them.
Guess that is what I get for not really thinking about being in Texas instead of Illinois lol
Paper white narcissus
Very pretty flowers Anna.
I have some paper whites blooming too. Other things that are still green are;
American Germander
Coneflowers
Primroses
Iris
Columbines
Phlox pilosa
Spiderwort
and of course the usual evergreens.
Josephine.
It was 22 degrees here last night and my lipstick salvia is green as can be and my Hawkeye Belle roses bloomed this morning :)
I've been covering my roses with flannel sheets when it gets down in the 30's...but I started doing that just to show my folks the roses when they got her on the 24th.
I wonder should I keep it up as they do have new leaves on them and it is their first year in the ground...they were plants back in Sept....but they are all still green even the ones that were here when we moved in
I am not really an expert, but most of my rose bushes are still green, one even still has intact flowers. Seems like you would be helping the new baby. How large was the root system in Sept?
Frostweed, your coneflowers are green? Is it a nice warm microclimate?
some were in 1 gallon pots and some were in 2 gallon pots that I got from the rose sales here in Tyler I would say none of them were bigger then a basket ball in root size if you were to ball them up LOL
Yes, some of my coneflowers are green but not all of them.
I forgot to mention the Salvia greggii, those are green too.
Josephine.
Yes, I love those salvia greggii too. I am tempted to trim them, but I think it is probably better to wait until Feb.I'd like to see the primrose and the phlox when it gets warmer.
Mibus2, I think the roses would be ok if they are mulched well. You can always ask on the rose forum. They are very helpful.
Can you help me with the name of this native....diamanta??
Damianita, Chrysactinia mexicana is also very nice and green at this time.
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/ornamentals/nativeshrubs/chrysactiniamexica.htm
Josephine.
Thanks, Josephine. I am trying to label my pictures so that helps.
Loveisagypsy, how is your salvia doing. It is amazing that it survived the cold. Is it in a protected area?
My greggiis are still green too! I'm trying to remember from past years. I thought they were usually one of the first to die back?
Black and blue is also still green. And the new little sages from the October swap are too. Bog sage and mealy-cup, plus two more greggiis.
All my yarrows are still green. Some of the coneflowers are. Lycoris, comfrey, buddleia, frogfruit. My pond iced over (first time ever), but several of the water plants are still green. This time of year, I really appreciate the evergreens: Japanese holly ferns, pavonia, heucheras, some of the daylilies, some of the sedums.
Don't have much still blooming besides annuals. Some petunias haven't died back yet. Pansies... some of the wax begonias. The only perennial (?) blooming is a little nemesia in a pot.
It's much more cheery inside. I took cuttings of my annuals--impatiens, angellonia, perilla, coleus, and several different kinds of begonias. They're all blooming red, white, pink, coral, yellow and purple. The little buddleia cutting has a bud. The two big tropical hibiscuses are budded out. The brugs (also from the plant swap) aren't blooming, but they look like they'd like to. I like my kitchen much more as a greenhouse than a kitchen. :)
Wow! you must have a very roomy and sunny kitchen, I envy you that.
My kitchen is not very sunny only one east facing window.
Maybe I could set plants by the 2 patio doors, but then I would have to rearrange the whole living room, and I don't know if i would like it, it surely would be better for the plants than the garage.
Josephine.
It is very sunny. It's curved on one half, with bay windows, southeast exposure. In the summer the windows are shaded, but in the winter, when the sun moves, it's just about perfect for most plants.
But no, it's not that roomy. We don't have much room left to eat in there right now. LOL!
This year I also brought all of my parents' plants over here to overwinter, so there are plants everywhere you look. I have some in the garage, too. I think some things like it better out there. Melva's thunbergia is a zone 9 plant, but it didn't do well in the house at all, so I moved it out there for more humidity. I hope it makes it! I have foxtail ferns in the house, but I think they'd like the garage better. Same with the rosemary. I'd put more things out there, but my garage has a rock band living in it, so there isn't much room.
::mutters something about needing a greenhouse in Santa's ear::
We seemed to be lucky here..lots of green left for this time of year...
Papaya tree - taken this morning.
The umbrellas in the back ground were the frost canopies for that section..all the frost blankets were used, and I have alot!
Rj
Not too much is green yet here....apple mint, passion vines Lavender Lady and caerulea, yellow butterfly bush, and hot lips salvia. My coral nymph salvia exploded this morning, the stems looked just like the pics of frostweed. I had no idea they would do that!
My hollyhocks are still green. Aren't they supposed to die back in the winter?
No, in fact they have to go through the winter a season before blooming. If you plant them this spring they would not bloom this spring, but next spring.
Rj
Mine stayed green all last winter, and then with all the rain the ended up covered with rust and mildew, they did not do well, which is a shame because the were a beautiful double apricot that I got from a neighbor.
I hope yours do better then mine.
Well, I learned something new today! Something has been eating them. Do rabbits eat hollyhocks?
Everything eats them..and the rust...if they survive past April here, the rust will finish them off.
i think hollyhocks might do better in this part of texas than in the houston area. mine go dormant in the summer though.
forgot to say that i have beautiful, lush and green arugula growing. besides the stuff already mentioned i have still green and healthy looking these plants:
red valerian
thalictrum
a yellow min. rose that is blooming today
daisies
malva..french hollyhock
coreopsis
dianthus
braz. vervain
oak leaf hydrangea
lamb's ear
some kind of fern
ribbon grass
lots of evergreen dl's
some kind of native plant that gets those little red balls...forgot the name
Yummy arugula! I can't believe that the oak leaf is green. What does the brazilian vervain look like?
Thanks for the hollyhock info. I have french HH growing everywhere.
Nothing seems to bother the French HH. Don't know exactly what I will have this spring as Josephine said, the rain just did them in and I had several colors and lots of doubles. The leaves had rust and the blooms were slimey. I actually cried. Have had them everywhere for the last 3 years and the rust didn't seem to deter the blooms. One of my favorite bloomers, unless it is a hibiscus, or a passion vine, or liatris, or veronica, or ballon flower, etc. etc. etc.
hahahahaha
check it out..what is this guy thinking.?? Not only is there green, but......
the oak leaf is up against the house on the south side so that prob. helped.
banana, are you asking what my braz. vervain looks like since the freezes or are you asking what it looks like...period?
Any picture is ok. There aren't any in the plant files.I think I have it.... Tall stems with roundish purple flowers at the top?
yep, that's it.
i have scabiosa that is green. verbascum is green.
Wild onion with Johnny Jump-ups coming up.
Gaillardia aristata still green.
Hesperantha coccinea blooming (below) now: also Fressia laxa subsp azurea, Ipheion selliawanum (now called Northoscordium felipponi), Narcissus tazetta orientalis 'Chinese Sacred Lady'. The days are getting longer....
Bronc, what kind of allium? =)
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yep, only 57 days of winter left. officially, that is.
Haven't checked the calendar.
Winter is governed by Easter. Will always have an Easter spell.
My mom used to swear that the weather down here never "settled" until after Easter--did not matter when Easter was either.
Christi, have you heard the term "blackberry winter"?
haven't heard of that Bronc. Sounds like another good indication of Spring...maybe.