Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for November 2025.
If I didn’t have the Christmas roses, Helleborus niger, blooming now, this would be a pretty short post.
But who am I kidding? It’s still going to be a pretty short post because here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we’ve already had snow. (Just for a day or so, it is all gone now!)
So from here on out—until crocuses show up in February—it’s going to be Christmas roses for the bloom, plus a few indoor flowers.
But while out mowing up leaves and taking them back to the Vegetable Garden Cathedral to cover those beds on Friday, Nov. 14, which was a beautiful day, I spotted a few plants still in denial, of sorts.
These snapdragons seeded themselves in the patio and have been blooming for a while.
They got snowed on but seemed not to be bothered by it.
Nearby, the very last of the autumn crocuses, Crocus speciosus, are still blooming.
Of course, many of them are done and are not blooming. We take what we can get this time of year.
This silly geranium decided to bloom one more time.
I noticed it while mowing. I liked seeing it. But I don’t expect it to bloom in November every year. It’s joined by a few blooms on the honeyberries in the back garden, which also shouldn’t be blooming now
I also caught a violet with one last bloom.
Of course I did. And yes, it’s in the lawn, and that’s just fine with me.
Elsewhere in the garden, the mums are just about done, but the pansies and violas are still doing well.
I will leave them be until they decide on their own to quit for the season.
And that’s it for this very short Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day post for November.
What’s blooming in your garden as we approach the end of the year? I’d love for you to join in for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day and show us. To participate, just post on your blog, Substack, Instagram or wherever you share about your garden on the Internet, about what’s blooming in your garden on or around the 15th of the month.
Then come back here and leave a link in the Mr. Linky widget and a comment to let us know what you have to show us.
As Elizabeth Lawrence wrote, “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.”
(Update… not sure why Mr. Linky doesn’t work this month. Feel free to put a link in a comment!)
You had 100% more outdoor flowers than I do right now, so I will still enjoy your short posts. Your flowers are survivors and delighted my heart. Your Christmas rose reminded me of my white hellebore, which tries to bloom each Dec-Jan regardless of the weather outside, and some years the buds or flowers get nipped and don’t make it. I never associated that plant with Christmas rose, so I guess I have one, too – sort of. Maybe next year I’ll plant fall pansies – if I remember.
Alana, I’m guessing that your white hellebore IS a Christmas rose, Helleborus niger of some variety. IT should bloom off and on all winter (if you count that the blooms stay on the plant all winter as “blooming.”)
I just realized your linky expired. Hopefully I’ll remember to come back later and check again.
Not sure why it expired. I’ll check into it…
I love that your Hellebores are blooming this early and that you have other blooms too, despite the snow.We had our first snow showers here in zone 7b probably around the same time you had your snow, and we are now in complete full fall mode with changing foliage and some blooms still hanging on! Happy GBBD!
Yes, back to fall mode, and I’m happy about that too!
You’ve reminded me that I need to plant some pansies now that our temperatures have settled down into the cool zone and we’re getting some real rain!
Yes, Kris! Plant a bunch so in January you can show them off and I can be jealous!
The yellow snapdragons are so cheery, I love they ignored the weather!
They are cheeky little flowers. I can see them from my window where I sit all the time so I’m going to see how long they really last!
Pansies are so happy looking! I like the littler violas.
https://thisandthatablog.blogspot.com/2025/11/garden-bloggers-bloom-day-november-2025.html
Thank you. I love pansies and violas as everyone by now surely knows. Thaks for joining in!
Hi We are seeing Autumn slowly transitioning into winter season, I am not able to link my post for Garden Bloggers blooms day . https://jaipurgardening.blogspot.com/2025/11/winter-is-on-way.html
Sorry you couldn’t link. I’ll have to check into what’s going onwith it! I do love a slow transition between seasons!
I need to check my Christmas rose! I did see a few violets outside as well. Mostly foliage though this month I must admit.
Thanks Carol! https://juliewitmergardens.substack.com/p/havenwood-november-garden-tour-e67
Mostly foliage here, too. I should hae takn pictures of Amsonia… such a bright yellow right now.
Carol, you have some nice blooms for November! I hope you’ll find a way to fix the Linky Widgett, it was so convenient, I miss it! In the meantime, here’s a link to my Bloom Day post https://mazastudio.blogspot.com
Hi Carol, I too found a number of surprises in the garden as we begin to approach winter. No hellebores here yet, but many camellias.
https://macgardens.org