Boy, this is where the action is today. Sun is out and the bees, moths and butterflies are taking advantage....I like these echiums so much...gonna have a lot more of them and the bees, etc. will be really happy....

Lovely blue color, really tells me cool season is here!

My blooms for this November:
Oncidium Sharry Baby:
Usually growing outdoors in my grow camp and moved upstairs to warm up and coax the buds out:

brought it downstairs now so I can see it more often. I like it when the lower lip makes those pinkish hues:


Complements the blooming Brassidium Fangtastic 'Bob Henley'

Oh, hey ! What's that? The first camellia bloom...I suppose it deserves its 15 seconds of fame...





















Huh...well, this has bloomed...I suppose that it's a cerinthe, but blah...will need to look it up....





Always reliable verbascums....





Cat blooming in the grass.....

Lots of camellia blooms coming soon for you Sherry!
Love cat in bloom

It is still blooming time for some succulents this Fall:

Faucaria tuberculosa makes more blooms this afternoon:



Haworthia truncata

Crassula capitella ssp. thrysiflora 'Pagoda Village' makes an off season bloom:

Ok, not so many blooms like Sherry's Camellia to expect this year, still mine likely will do much better than last year. Instead of only about a dozen flowers last year, my fragrant Camellia has shown "dozens" of buds this year:




And here comes a strange sight of the remains (stems) from Aloe blooms in summer:

Yes ! Lots of buds...exciting....I'm glad that it's doing well for you.

Thank you, Sherry. But now still !

My Oncidium Dancing Lady is in bloom this November

Nice, Tarev! I'm hoping to have some orchids open by the end of the month. The rest of my garden is just sorry.

Thanks Carol! It is Oncidium season for me, the only ones I can get to nicely bloom here so far like clockwork around Fall. Hope to see your orchids soon!

Cool...I have another schizostylis! (sp?)

This is the second one to come up in a clump of carex dug for me from my friend's garden...it will be interesting to see if the clumps all came from the same area, if they might all have schizo seedlings in them....and all the more to reseed!

Gotta love those freebies when they're that pretty!

I love surprises....and I'm getting lots of them here...going to get colder here over the next couple of days, snow maybe down to 3,000 ft....

Oh yeah, I saw the forecast, your area getting all the fun rain showers, all we will get will be the chill in the air.

yeah, raining now, as we speak...I'll probably be able to say that quite often....

I wish I could say that! Dry as a bone here this week. Lows never below 56 and highs ranging from mid 70s to low 90s. No rain in sight. Last week the nightly fog helped a lot, but...typical fall (though no major wind events yet) in so. Cal. Hope you northerners pile up lots of snow this winter, because us southerners are going to need it, if the weather guessers are right.

Been waiting for this solitary bud to bloom..finally it is here woohoo! My Passiflora edulis 'Frederick'. The ants surely love that bud, been going about it the whole bud formation time.



With or without flash




I see no other buds..but it did have these yellow leaves..seems like a dud set for supposed to be buds:

Pretty, Tarev! I like all those curly whiskers.