Blooming in November.

Rose 'New Dawn'. I also have blooms on Crepuscule and mutabilis.

Beautiful shots Tom, especially the one of New Dawn.

Deb, here's more pictures of "Honorine Jobert".

More HJ.

A rather blurry shot of "Honorine Jobert"; it's on the eastern side of my house and leans toward the afternoon sun.

Anemone 'HJ' is lovely. I have a great pic of it in a magazine where it is chosen as a great stand alone plant because it has beautiful flowers and foliage.

Tom, I love your Salvia madrensis. That would be a great plant to bring to the next RU,lol.

This plant is usually rabbit pruned by now in my garden but I've heard it does well throughout mild winters with little dieback and even flowers some.

Abutilon megapotamicum

Chamthy: Love your abutilon. I've been wanting abutilon for some time but was put off by the zoning restriction, but if it grows for you and overwinters, I may just give it a try. Do you mulch heavily in winter or just take your chances?

Hemophobic- I don't usually mulch very heavily but I am 7b and we haven't had a severe winter since it was planted. If I were you I would plant it as early as possible in the spring, mulch and not cut it back overwinter.

Chamthy: Great! Thanks for the tips. I will definitely be getting some abutilon next spring.

Swweetbay: Thanks for those photos of "HJ". Now I have a much better idea.

Unless the weather stays mild and I get a few unexpected flowers before spring, this may be the last picture I can post this year. Here is Brugmansia 'Rubirosa' - brought it indoors because it's cool and rainy outside.

Very nice, Tom!

Tom that is a beautiful brug.

Here is American Beautyberry. The berries long outlast the leaves!

The asters and mums are done for me now. What I do have blooming now is Dianthus. I'd love to name this Dianthus "Judy" after my mom.

I need to do a million things outside but I hate days like this. The wind is so aggravating to me. I scattered some poppy seeds and took a couple of pics then retreated back inside.

Looks like whatever's still blooming may not be after the next couple of nights. Not loving the forecast!

Gerbers are still at it, though. :)
Deb

I know, we have a frost warning up for this evening and a freeze warning for Tuesday night. Boo!

Think this guy is done for this year. Frost might not get him, we will see.

My camellias are starting to flower. This ones pretty big I'll get a good picture when it's really blooming.

Duh, I never realized that many of the sasanquas, especially the white ones, had scents; how does that pretty one smell.

Pretty, Core. Mine are just buds at the mo'.
All I have blooming this week is Tea Olive and a few very hardy Osteospermum.
Deb

Mine doesn't have a scent but you are right some do. My tea olives are blooming right now also.

Here's a paperwhite narcissus growing next to the house that survived the freeze. In general they are not very reliable here - often the foliage gets frozen during the winter and the bulbs never get strong enough to bloom reliably. I think they really need more of a zone 8b/9a climate to do well.

Lilium formosanum seedpods. I have loads of seeds to share if anyone wants them. I can't offer any special tips for germination - check over at the DG lilies forum or do Google search. In my yard they tend to self-seed and pop up all over the place. If you do want seeds, send me a SASE (my address is in the DG Address Exchange) and let me know if you want seeds of L. formosanum and/or Echinacea paradoxa and/or Baptisia australis.

I always take a big bag of formosanum seeds to propagation workshops and I tell folks to just toss them out like Mom Nature does. They seem to self sow well and I have not had nearly as good a germination rate when I try and sow them in pots.

O.k., so not exactly a flower, but curled up under a butterfly bush this morning. Eek. I think it's a Banded Water Snake (Nerodia fasciata fasciata.) They're not poisonous, but they get your attention.

Relocating Mr. Sneak to his new home in the woods, away from my backyard.

Yikes, it is mostly a bluff but water snakes can be very agressive and scary. Yours looks like he was still asleep when you found him. They even have that pointy head that closly resembles the nasty snakes.

You are sure you relocated him (or her) verrrrry far way, right??????? :-)

Ewwww! Even harmless snakes just give me the creeps. Can't help it.

On the other end of the scale, I LOVE "harmless" snakes---welcome them with open arms in my gardens! But there's no such thing as a "harmless" snake---they'll all bite you if you antagonize them, and sometimes you don't even know you're ticking them off. And even the "harmless" ones cause problems. I've been bitten by a "harmless" Garter snake (a "pet", when I was a kid), and a copperhead as a teen. Garter snake caused more localized damage, but the copperhead made me "sick all over". I still hate the species, and kill them on sight. Understand that's irrational, but that's what is...

Irrationality has it's place where venomous snakes are concerned. I have been known to be highly irrational over the good, rodent catching kinds of snakes. I am sure you can picture the scream, then the old lady jumping up and running away, then tiptoeing (why?) back to see the markings to see if she should have screamed and run in the first place........

I love snakes, because they eat the voles that eat my plants! ;)

I've sometimes thought I should hold clinics to desenstive people who don't like spiders and snakes. lol. We have so many here! Including a lot of black widow spiders, mostly outside of the garden, so I wear gloves when digging down in leaves or turning over rocks.

I'm glad to have seen only one poisonous snake here -- a foot long copperhead in the rafters of the hay shelter. I moved him with a broom because I didn't want to get possibly bitten in the face while getting hay -- he did strike at the broom a number of times.

Very glad not to have yet seen water moccasins, which puzzles me, but perhaps the river which supplies much of our water moves too fast for their liking...

The problem with snakes has to do with people and childern with active lifestyles. I'll go walk through a swamp but that's while I'm paying attention. I don't need to be not paying attention in my backyard and step on or otherwise anger one of these misunderstood animals. LOL. They're not misunderstood they simply do what they do.

I have nothing against snakes, and I let them be - by a very wide margin! LOL
They still make me shiver, tho.