It’s awesome sparse for flowers in the garden right now. But hey, it’s December!
this is the hinge between seasons. Things are budding up, others are finishing up. A few long-blooming plants plants make up the glue holding all the changes together. And a very few plants are taking advantage of the late fall to do their flower thing.
Overall here are lots of closeups, with not many plants covered all over with flowers. Click the images for a full view.
Some of the usual subjects not shown this month:
Baileya multiradiata
Dudleya caespitosa
Salvia Hot Lips
Red and orange reed-stem Epidendrum orchids
Camellia Cleopatra
Salvia discolor
Clerodendrum myricoides ‘Ugandense’
Thanks to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting Garden Bloggers Bloom Day. There’s lots of snow on the ground around the country and internationally. So once again I should stop whining and enjoy what I have to look at!
That is a nice selection of blooms. White it is in Niagara Falls.
Garden “glue” is invaluable. Nice to see some beautiful survivors clinging on. No white here, just grey, and definitely no floral porn!
You call that sparse? Oh you crazy Californian (she says while turning green with envy…)
Your “flower porn” comment makes me feel less inappropriate about describing my need for backyard poultry as “chicken lust” to someone the other day. They looked quite shocked. Gorgeous photos! Love the leonotis even though it is fading. 🙂
Many lovely flowers. I like the orchids and the Portea Pink Ice because they seem so exotic in contrast with my snow covered garden.
I love your Protea–they are something wonderful!
I saw a Carpenteria for sale, didn’t buy it, and have regretted it ever since.
I have to agree with Loree–it sure doesn’t look sparse to me.
I hadn’t realized that Eriogonum grande rubescens was quite so purplish. It’s charming!
Wow, that really shows the difference between your place and mine quite clearly. What a fine collection of blossoms! That Isomeris arborea looks like it might be a fine choice for my winter garden, which looks somewhat desolate right now.
Happy bloom day!
Any collection with two orchids has at least an element of floral porn. Quite a lot of different flowers, even if they aren’t at full bloom. I like the two Salvia spathacea flowers on either side of the stalk.
I couldn’t help but noticing what a bonanza of plants you have for attracting beneficial insects–all the buckwheats and salvias in particular. In my garden the various colorful fungi, late mushrooms and lichen are providing shots of color amongst the wet green and brown. That and the rose hips, cranberries and barberries. The only flowers that are daring to rear their heads are some hellebores–dear ones.
Nice selection of photos, James, it pays to get up close. I just have a Yuletide camellia which is blooming quite well and some red berry pyrocantha. How nice that your salvias are still going. I love ’em!
Beautiful blooms! Of course my favorite falls into the catagory of porn.
We certainly like a lot of the same plants. My garden was continuing to flower surprisingly well, despite an early cold snap, but in the past week all my perennials and grasses finally gave up trying. I’m looking forward to a few months with no pressure to garden.