Well, not a lot blooming here in central New Hampshire in November — and almost nothing now that temps have dropped into the teens at night. But for the first two weeks of the month, ten days posted high temps above 60°F, including one day — 5 Nov — reaching 74°F! So the few late-season flowers, and their insects and bird visitors, have been a welcome end-of-season sight and sound (bzzzz) here this year. I thought I’d share them with you before this website goes silent on Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day until spring.
Here’s what’s going on today, 15 November — even with temps descending below 20F last night and a winter weather advisory out for tonight and tomorrow, there are a few flowers, flower buds, seedheads, and pretty leaves worth noticing.
Andromeda (Pieris japonica) buds‘Bluebird’ aster flowersGazania flower red cloverperennial mumperennial mums‘Rainbow’ Leucothoe buds and foliageEpimedium foliage‘Autumn Fire’ sedum flowershellebore budsbuds of another Andromeda (Pieris japonica)echinacea seedheadsheather seedheadsperennial mum flower
And here’s what was going on these past two weeks of very mild weather.
Things are now pretty much done for the season here on the coast. There is one lonely geranium that we need to dig up and bring in. I’m not sure how it has survived out there.
amazing to see so much color so late in the season.
I love all the insect closeups! I wouldn’t have imagined that New Hampshire would have much of anything in bloom in November so I think you did great.
Things are now pretty much done for the season here on the coast. There is one lonely geranium that we need to dig up and bring in. I’m not sure how it has survived out there.