May Dreams invites us to share what is blooming in our garden on this Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. The wintry weather may have arrived in Austin but there is still plenty to enjoy.
The last month of the year is the time for celebrating the blooms of the year or what remains of those blooms. When freezing temperatures have taken their toll this arrangement of dried seed heads reminds me of those blooms which were enjoyed earlier in the year. Poppy, garlic chives, amaranth, inland sea oats, miscanthus and little blue stem grasses all dry well and with a few berries from the pyracantha make a pleasing Christmas decoration.
Alyssum is the only flower blooming in the garden after the area was hit by a deep freeze a week ago.
Last year the Philippine violet remained green all winter. This year the leaves have turned dark brown and the spiky sepals a golden brown.
Just a faint tinge of pink remains on the drooping heads of the amaranthus seed heads.
A pyracantha seed, dropped by a bird, grows up the bathroom wall.
The berries on the Yaupon holly fully ripe.
Graptopetalum and
Sedum potosinum have both shrugged off the cold which I always find surprising since its leaves are thick and juicy. They are hardy to about 12 degrees.
In the spring this sedum will be covered with long lasting star shaped flowers.
The flower buds on the viburnum are beginning to form in readiness for the spring bloom. Winter has not even begun and already there are signs of the spring to come.
The last month of the year is the time for celebrating the blooms of the year or what remains of those blooms. When freezing temperatures have taken their toll this arrangement of dried seed heads reminds me of those blooms which were enjoyed earlier in the year. Poppy, garlic chives, amaranth, inland sea oats, miscanthus and little blue stem grasses all dry well and with a few berries from the pyracantha make a pleasing Christmas decoration.
Alyssum is the only flower blooming in the garden after the area was hit by a deep freeze a week ago.
Last year the Philippine violet remained green all winter. This year the leaves have turned dark brown and the spiky sepals a golden brown.
Just a faint tinge of pink remains on the drooping heads of the amaranthus seed heads.
A pyracantha seed, dropped by a bird, grows up the bathroom wall.
The berries on the Yaupon holly fully ripe.
Graptopetalum and Sedum potosinum have both shrugged off the cold which I always find surprising since its leaves are thick and juicy. They are hardy to about 12 degrees.
In the spring this sedum will be covered with long lasting star shaped flowers.
The flower buds on the viburnum are beginning to form in readiness for the spring bloom. Winter has not even begun and already there are signs of the spring to come.
