Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day February 2017

Snowdrops (and grateful to at least have these)

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day is hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens.

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day December 2016

Do freeze-dried blooms count? Haha

Astilbe (assorted)

Grama Grass - Blond Ambition
 

Sedum - Autumn Joy

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day is hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens.

Red Fountain Grass Cuttings and “Christmas” Cactus

I like to dig up a clump of my (annual) Red Fountain Grass and bring it inside for the winter to start pots for next year. I usually dig the clump out of a large outside pot, cut the top off, shake most of the leaves and debris off, put it in a large plastic bowl and bring it inside. Where it usually sits for at least a month, often longer. Last year, head hanging in shame, I didn’t deal with it until March. This year, because of last year, I dealt with the clump a mere 36 hours after I brought it inside!! I now have 6 pots of roots with skinny stalks. I know they don’t look like much, but just wait. I have confidence they will become beautiful, full, clumps of Red Fountain Grass just waiting to go outside in May.

And, because nothing else is blooming outside, here is my Halloween Cactus. Yeah, it is supposed to be a Christmas Cactus. However, every year, for the last 25 years, it has bloomed earlier and earlier. This year, first bloom on Halloween. It is almost done now, but still pretty. I have a younger one that has just set buds. I think it will open in about 7-10 days.

~~ All is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin. ~~

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day November 2016

Hardly anything blooming – we’ve had a hard frost.

Honeysuckle Vine

Spring Anemone (with crispy leaves)

Snapdragons

Mums – although well past prime showing

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day is hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens.

Blooms on my Honeysuckle Vine

We are having an unusually mild fall – it is 70 degrees on November 6^th. Sometimes we have snow flurries by this date. My Honeysuckle Vine is blooming (just a few blooms, but still).