Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for November 2022.
Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we’ve suddenly been plunged into winter. If someone came here from another planet, they would probably be quite confused because just a few days ago, it was almost summer-like.
But for those of us who’ve been here for a while, well…
How about that Christmas Rose, Helleborus niger blooming already?
This is probably one of the plants I bought several years ago at a local grocery store during the Christmas season, when we can sometimes find them in the floral department in full bloom. I kept it alive inside long enough to plant it out the following spring.
That lovely Christmas Rose and this lovely Thanksgiving/Christmas cactus blooming inside round out the true blooms for me on this bloom day.
But would you like to see what might have been if we hadn’t had snow on Saturday, cold on Sunday, and an even colder morning on Monday when I took pictures for this post.
Alrighty.
Here they are…
And that’s my garden on Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day for November 2022. What’s blooming in your garden as we reach the middle of November? We’d love to see, so please join in! Post on your blog about what’s blooming in your garden, then leave a link and a comment here so we can go check it out. Don’t have a blog? Post on Instagram and show us there!
We can have flowers nearly every month of the year. – Elizabeth Lawrence
Beautiful hellebores, the frost on flowers indicates quite chilly weather . Thanks for hosting Garden Bloggers blooms day.
We had a similar introduction to winter – brrr! I should have thought about taking pictures with hoarfrost on them. I enjoyed your frosty flowers and your lovely Thanksgiving cactus.
Lovely how your Anemone holds up during the cold weather. Mine are already over. But luckily we had no frost, yet.
I love the hellebore, as well as the pansies, which struggle in my part of the country. Born and raised in coastal southern California, I’m not sure I could adapt to the sudden onset of winter – or really a true winter of any kind. I like the idea of a respite from gardening but a few weeks would do as opposed to a few months. I complain about the reduced number of blooms in my garden anyway but your winter garden presents a whole different reality to the change in the season.
Oh gosh, hellebores blooming in fall! Mine here in Zone 4b actually have buds, because we had temps in the 60s most of the first two weeks of the month, and now our lows are in the teens and highs in the 30s, with snow tomorrow. Poor plants.
Your Hellebores are beautiful and it is so unusual that they are blooming so soon. We have had a crazy plunge in temperatures too from in the 70’s (almost 80) degrees one day to a daytime high of 49 degrees! Yes…the plants are confused! Happy Bloom Day!
Hellebores blooming off-season could be an erratic season result. Some mature lilacs in our region, a sign of spring, bloomed a few years back in fall. What’s next?
Hi Carol. late as usual. Feeling somewhat blessed that we are still bringing in peas and lettuce from the garden (not to mention flowers). I can see that colder days are on the way.
Carol, We had the same dramatic change in weather here in Maine, but I didn’t have as many flowers left in my garden to be caught unprepared for the cold. Happy Thanksgiving!
Frost can definitely add some excitement to our usual flower palette. Your white crocus are lovely. I need to plant some more fall blooming crocus next year if I can find them.