It may sound like bragging.....and yeah it is These are still blooming in my front garden today. I will be putting more of the Gerbera in the garden next year. They stay green all year round, even under what little snow and ice we do sometimes have in the winter. The Dallas Red Lantana is holding on. One lonely little Red Petunia. This Passionflower Vine has been growing for several years, bloomed like crazy the first year but not in the last 5 or so, until late last month.... this one opened right around Thanksgiving and there are two more trying to make an appearance before it gets too cold for them. And the Julia Child Rose is a treal trooper, it had a bloom last month and this one just might make it with the warmer weather we are having this week. Boy do they smell wonderful!! And one little bud on one of the SunPatiens is not ready to quit either.
It's a real pleasure to see your flowers Toni. Almost everything here has gone into hibernation so there's not much colour to be seen. Roll on spring!!
Looks like your garden is still quite colorful Toni. It's usually amazing to think about blooms in December, but there is Gaillardia blooming here now!
Well Toni, I am well gobsmacked innit. What a floral display...dear me. It looks so good to see that colour now. I appreciate you posting this.
These were cut from our front garden this morning. Other than the roses and the lantana, there isn't much else in bloom. The artemisia is past its prime, but I needed filler for the bouquet and cut some anyway!
I am a little green with envy now but I enjoy seeing your blooming flowers, Toni, and yours also Marlingardener. Thanks!
The flowers are lovely, but what caught my attention was the serving tray. That is too gorgeous for words. is the bottom painted or id that cloth?
Things are budding up here due to the warm weather. Today 75*. Now I worry about what I will lose when winter really gets here. I picked 2 tomatoes yesterday.
Sjoerd, that tray is Talavera, a hand-painted type of pottery from Mexico. I love it in all its patterns, and I bought a piece or two each time we went to Mexico. It is a small, but beloved collection. Talavera is so cheerful!
Blooms! What a lovely sight. We haven't got any outside, and only the Poinsettia inside. Mandatory Christmas decoration.
Oh yes! I think that I have a piece of that too from my travels, but the art style was naïve. Well, that tray of yours really is interesting-looking and quite lovely, I find. I can well imagine that it is special to you.
It's so wonderful to see all thee flowers. A sight for us, who love in the drab winterland, to behold. Toni, What are the 2 items on the side of pic 1 and 2? One is blue and the other looks like a solar canning jar. LOL
Barb, the little blue thing in the first photo is a glass lid I found in a thrift store, no bottom to it just the lid. It gets moved around the front garden every once in a while depending on where it looks best. The second is a solar canning jar. Well the top is a solar cell, the jar is filled with glass marbles that give the light a pretty glow at night. Michaels craft store was selling the lids last summer, I bought several to make Christmas gifts...and thanks for the reminder, they would have been sitting on the shelf waiting to be remembered come the day after Christmas
OK OK I cleaned up the 3 tier fountain and Annabelle Leigh with the large brim hat and put them in the up shed. So I couldn't believe that I found a flower or 2 in the up garden. But best of all I visited my greenhouse and found the Amazon Lily blooming. It is one of my favorite flowers. These flowers bow down and look at the ground to attract that special bug to their evening scent. I have 4 pots of this plant but only one is blooming.
