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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – November 2022

November 15, 2022 By Carol 12 Comments

Christmas Rose, Helleborus niger

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…

The Japanese anemone, Anemone x hybrida ‘Honorine Jobert’, has been blooming for awhile now.
These white fall-blooming crocus were looking lovely just a few days ago. Check out my Instagram feed to see!
These newly planted fall-blooming crocuses were also quite lovely. I expect them to return each year, bigger and better!
This flowering quince, Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Double Take Orange’ pushed out this one bloom for me this fall. I was tempted to clip it and bring it inside, but clearly, I didn’t.
It isn’t truly fall until you see a rose covered in hoarfrost on a bright cheery morning when it is 25ºF outside.
And the pansies. These have been through it all in the last few days, but as the sun hits them, they’ll perk up, don’t we all?

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

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  1. Arun Goyal says

    November 15, 2022 at 6:35 am

    Beautiful hellebores, the frost on flowers indicates quite chilly weather . Thanks for hosting Garden Bloggers blooms day.

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  2. Alana says

    November 15, 2022 at 6:52 am

    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.

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  3. LL Garden says

    November 15, 2022 at 7:27 am

    Lovely how your Anemone holds up during the cold weather. Mine are already over. But luckily we had no frost, yet.

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  4. Kris P says

    November 15, 2022 at 11:23 am

    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.

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  5. Molly Williams says

    November 15, 2022 at 11:59 am

    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.

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  6. Lee@A Guide to Northeastern Gardening says

    November 15, 2022 at 6:54 pm

    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!

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  7. Brenda K Johnson says

    November 15, 2022 at 9:45 pm

    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?

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  8. John Willis says

    November 16, 2022 at 12:39 pm

    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.

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  9. Jean at Jean's Garden says

    November 18, 2022 at 8:48 pm

    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!

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  10. Jerry says

    November 19, 2022 at 5:56 pm

    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.

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