Black Forest



Trailing Lavender Lantana. Ann, do you know what this flutterby is?



Pope John Paul II // Lantana. Early in the year is mostly yellow and orange. Late year blooms tend more toward all red. Nifty, like having two different plants on one.

Lovely.the butterflies

Debra, I think it is a Clouded Sulphur, pretty butterfly.

Gorgeous colors Deb!!!

Ginny, the boat belongs to my brother-in-law.

Thank you, Margaret.

Sorry, a little behind & late. I agree with Margaret.... a Clouded Sulphur.
I really like those Gomphrenas (sp?). Cute little things aren't they? Pops a lot of color!

More pretties Debra, seems like you have bloom year round.

Betty, in normal years, there isn't much going on in December and January. However, we didn't have any winter weather last year, so I have had blooms of some kind continuously for the last 18 months. This Fall has been running 10-20 degrees above normal, which is helping keep the flowers going. Broke the record high temperature yesterday.
Waiting game to see if we get any cold this coming Winter.

Flowers for 18 months straight, outstanding!

I love mild winters like our last one, hope this winter is also mild. Although the weather forecast is for snow including some areas with blizzard conditions in our state in the next day or two which hopefully will only be rainy with light snow in our area.

I like the cold winters. Makes up for the atrocious summers. What I would dearly love now though is some rain. We are dry, dry, dry & have been so since Hurricane Matthew which only brought my area a scant 3/4" and we were dry before that came. La Nina.

La Nina won't be helping us any. Predictions of no rain until near Christmas. Finally supposed to freeze this weekend so I need to dig up my Siam Ruby banana. I said I wasn't going to have anymore inside plants but I'm lying again. I need to take the last photos of my castor bean plants before the cold gets them.

Kabby we all say we won't do something again regarding gardening and then end up lying about it I've told so many lies this summer and fall with regard to not buying more plants I'm thinking I'll have to go to confession for sure and I'm not even Catholic

Deb how's it going with your post surgery? All the kinks worked out yet? Have a wonderful day

Not yet, Ginny. Probably going to have another procedure after my post surgery checkup in mid-December. Anesthesia again, but really the surgery itself is minor stuff to take care of (unless it goes away on its own--unlikely, but possible).
THEN, I should be all clear.

Hope all goes well - cold and windy out today so I don't mind being inside. Yesterday I had an appointment in Des Moines (1 hr away) and went to lunch with my daughter. 75 when I drove home about 1:00 p.m. then, unfortunately, I had to come to work Would have been a great day to be outside! My iris was still blooming this morning - darn thing! I really need to split a bunch of iris out in the Spring that are totally overgrown, so if you would like tree mail me and I'll let you know what's there.

Frustrating to have to pass up good gardening time.

I saw the photograph on the other thread--pretty Iris. Thank you for the offer, I will let you know.

Cold front came through today. Overnight low is supposed to be around 38. Cold for us, anyway. Guess we can't avoid it forever.


Surprise this morning! Royal Maroon MDB. Just received it this summer and it is blooming already.
Gotta love those Donald Spoon Irises.

Gorgeous

Debra I agree with Ginny.