Ditto...roses and alyssum.

Hi

Witchazel (H. Virginania) is in full bloom. My neighbor recently planted an evergreen hedge behind the WH, so now they really pop out. Potted rosses are blooming in my garage

A few roses (La Marne, and one explorer-type)
witch hazel
some raspberries (+ still making fruit for some reason - was a weird season)
delphiniums (have been re-blooming)

Snapdragons, chrysanthemums, and a stray rose or two.

Some roses, salvia Victoria, an aster or two. I've got a mum from Bluestone called Debbie's Daisy that is still looking great and the blooms are lasting forever. That's about it...

:)
Dee

Several roses, one Phlox paniculata, Salvia leucantha, Gaura, Dendranthema in a container.

Viburnum carlesii (a/o 11/12), potted and protected Salvia elegans, Coreopsis 'Moonbeam', white Gaura, roses.

Martie

Coneflowers. And, a daylily! It's "Final Touch," a late bloomer. But I'm just stupified that it has endured some nights in the low 30s and maybe high 20s and still has some small flowers and even viable flowerbuds.

Some creeping phlox have a few blooms too.

-Knockout roses, red and pink.
-One Stella de oro daylily sporadically blooming.
-Tall cosmos, except the branches keep getting blown off. Just a few branches left.
-Tanacetum (feverfew).
-Dicentra eximia, sheltered between a cotoneaster and a virginia sweetspire.
-Nicotiana.
-Jerusalem artichoke (?).
-a few ceratostigma.
-Osmanthus heterophyllus slowing down.
-a few mums.
-various ornamental grasses.

Not blooms, but the Artemisia Powis Castle looks great. Next year I'll plant some near the roses for fall contrast.

cotoneaster and winterberry red berries/fruits. For flashy leaves, there are the cotoneasters, Itea virginica Henry's Garnet, ceratostigma, blueberries (highbush).

Claire

My Knockout roses are still going strong. If you want something that truly blooms from spring to late fall, get Knockout.

Autumn sunset rose, fall blooming crocus and colchicum, a reblooming white bearded iris that I got as a passalong plant (so I don't know what it is), a truly hardy mum that's a lovely combination of yellows and pinks that look coppery from a distance, Michaelmas daisy (I think that's what it's called), Witch hazel, and there are still a few new blooms along with the dried ones on my Annabelle hydrangea. Until a few days ago I also had an annual nicotiana blooming it's heart out, but then it got down to 25 degrees . . . And as always, those Johnny jump-ups (little pansies) are throwing a few blooms as they always do whenever not totally covered with snow or frozen solid.

Add Rudbeckia triloba to the list, in full bloom.

Roses Knockout and Fairy
Gentiana scabra-true blue flowers-one of my faves!
Daphne 'Summer Ice'
Geranium 'Rozanne'
Aster 'Fanny'
Mum 'Lucies Pink'
Ajania pacifica 'Pink Ice'
Aconitum 'Barkers Variety'
Knautia macedonica 'Mars midget'
Veronica 'Goodness grows'
Verbena 'Homestead Purple'
Delosperma/Ice plant
Allium 'Ozawa' (older flowers, but still a little showy)
Salvia 'Indigo Spires' (on one of my more protected plants)
many ornamental grasses

Fruit:
Callicarpa 'Early Amethyst'
Viburnum trilobum 'Wentworth' (just a few)
Cotoneaster dammeri 'Coral Beauty'
Malus 'Prairie Fire'

Ooh, Monique, you reminded me. I also have a callicarpa with beautiful purple berries, and I also have a handful of delosperma Starburst blooms.

I tried for 3 years to get the delosperma established, buying new plants every year since they would not overwinter. Finally, last year I gave up and bought no new plants this spring. Well, you guessed it. I had some volunteer seedlings come up this spring, and they are still in bloom. I had hoped to plant a very large grouping of this pretty little plant, but I guess it just ain't gonna happen! I have to be happy with my couple of blooms!

:)
Dee

I found what I think are a few Crocus sativa. It seems late, but these were covered with mulch in an area I hadn't yet touched. Know I didn't plant them. Bonus!!

Martie

I've got several different types of nasturtiums still in bloom, some tansy, and one or two roses. I am so jealous of folks who actually have hardy mums blooming. Mine seem never to return. My nikko hydrangea got slaughtered during the last freeze and their leaves are hanging like bats in a cave....LOL

Crazy year...because I've still got some penstemon blooming as well as some Rudbeckia hirta (black-eyed susan) seedlings which started blooming in October!

Also the usual late pink chrysanthemums, and a few alyssum and forget me nots.

Ellen

Just noticed that the agastache is still blooming...even after a few freezing nights.

callicarpa and viburnum berries, gaura, and the bionic superwomen- corydalis lutea and geranium rozanne.
the foliage of arum italicum is so wonderful now- dk shiny green w/ moss green veining- looks like spring!

snapdragons, alyssum, chrysanthemums in the sun
I still had marigolds blooming, but I pulled them up on Monday

cyclamen, toad lilies and cimicufuega in the shade

Wow, people have a lot of things still blooming.
I've got fairy rose, 3 or 4 varieties of tender salvia, a perennial salvia, some rudbeckia and coreopsis.

The heath is just about to bloom, it's coloring up well. The stinking hellebores are in bud, and one silly Helleborus orientalis (aka x hybridus) is in full flower.

We have had a couple of nights of light frost, enough to wipe out most of the tender plants on the deck, and we're expecting a hard frost tonight or tomorrow night. I'm ready!

Yes, Rozanne geranium is still blooming. That thing is non-stop! As I walk through the gardens every morning, I notice that there are still things blooming here and there that I didn't notice yesterday...

Rozanne
Salvia N Caradonna
Agastache x2
an early yaku Rhodie (just one little blossom)
a variety of mums
Gaura
Scabiosa ochroleuca -- which have bloomed their heads off this year (my first). One has tons of new basal growth, one has a tiny bit of it, and one has none. Wondering why?

roses,
tricyrtis 'Sinonome',
geranium 'Rozanne', though I'm not as happy about its second year performance as I was after the first one,
sedum sieboldii 'October Daphne',
leucoseptrum stellipilum in full bloom right now,
and what is still amazes me, Dicentra eximia still have some flowers. This thing never stop blooming since April-May.

Beside that,
-Fresh leaves of Arum Italicum look great at this time of the year when everything is dieing,
-Next year flower buds on Skimmia japonica(male plants) look very ornamental and almost as good as in a bloom, while female plants are full of bright red berries,
-Great fall color for Clethra barbinervis, Stewartia cinensis, 'Bloodgood' maple, weeping cherry and 'Goldflame' spirea,
-variegated azaleas 'Silver Sword' and 'Arctic Rose' started fall-winter transformation from white/green to pink-red-burgundy/green,
-cotinus coggygria (smoke bush) 'Royal Purple' turn very intense burgundy-purple as it never was during the whole season,
-'Diabolo' ninebark has probably the most intense coppery-red color I've ever seen.

My Cotinus coggygria fall foliage was yellow, not purple. And my "Diabolo" ninebark hasn't changed color yet at all. Go figger.

At the moment, my non-hardy Cyclamen experiment is going splendidly. Over the spring/summer, I planted last winter's C. persicum (florist's cyclamen--the kind you find for sale everywhere, all winter) out in the garden, just to see what it would do. It's not hardy here--there's some debate about just how hardy it is, but the coldest zone I've seen it rated hardy to is 8. I figured I would lose the plants some time in December, but "hardy" Cyclamen, which are often more expensive and always much harder to find, never live through an entire year here, either, due to soggy spring soil or squirrels or both.

So, anyway, the C. persicum have doubled in size and are blooming beautifully right now, and my zonal denial is at an all-time high. I haven't decided whether to dig these plants in a few weeks and bring them inside, or to treat them as annuals, or to see how much I can protect them. They are planted in the same area as my Asarum maximum 'Green Panda,' my ultimate zone-denial plant. This plant, hardy to about z8, has made it through 3 or 4 winters in the ground here, now, including Jan. 04.

Other than that, I've got:
various perennial mums
an ID-forgotten Ajuga, possibly 'Metalica crispa'
Salvia nemorosa 'May Night'
a Lewisia hybrid, which put out buds a few weeks ago...I have no idea about this one
ID-forgotten alpine Campanula--wish I could remember its name today, because it's a beauty
various Primula
annual snapdragons
pansies & violas
annual alyssum (I think--last night's 25* low might have done it in)
last of the Crocus speciosus
remnants of Colchicum autumnale 'Alboplenum'--rain-flattened and fading, but still pretty
Lamium of various sorts
a reblooming Iris
last of the Callunas
first of the Ericas
a white Allium thunbergii hybrid is no longer putting out new blooms, but, like Monique's 'Ozowa,' its flowers still look good.
Gaura and a few lavenders seem undecided as to whether they're going to bloom some more or go dormant. Can't tell at the moment but I suspect the latter.

Waiting on:
Crocus laevigatus, which is poking out of the soil now. This is its first year here, and I believe, I believe, I believe it can actually bloom in December. (Um, yup, zonal denial...but then, the pansies and primroses bloom through to about 1/1...)
Helleborus foetidus is in bud. Wish my H. x hybridus would bloom in November! How neat, Nan.

And, yes, Arum italicum, one of my favorite plants, is at its best now.
Some Callunas are turning their winter oranges and reds, and the variegated Hedera is turning from green-white to green-pink.

This was an absolutely spectacular year for fall color, albeit a month later than usual.

Amanda

Well, Amanda, I never realized that your GW moniker was an actual plant. I finally googled your namesake (actually that's not the right word, but I can't remember the right one, does anyone know it?) and NOW I see why you chose it.

What a plant! Hmm, it's marginally hardy here, I wonder if I should give it a try. They've got it a Plants Delight, a mere $14.

Here is a link that might be useful: The Other Asarum Green Panda

Nan, yes, 'Green Panda' is exquisite. The flowers are really striking (I'll see if I have any pictures of mine), but I love the leaves even more. They're a dark, metallic-y black green, very smooth, beautifully shaped--even among asarums--and quite slug-resistant. I wish I could share my plant, but it has grown very slowly here and isn't much bigger than it was when I planted it. (Still, not complaining.)

Mine is growing under the outermost leaves of some Helleborus x hybridus, which overhang it and collect fallen leaves over the winter. It's about 18" away from the wooden stairs to our deck, which are against the north side of the house. I make sure it's covered in leaves each fall, but don't do anything else to protect it.

Oddly enough, I found the plant at a local nursery. There was only one 4" pot of it, for something like $2. I bought it for the leaves, and because some people actually do call me Panda. (Rhymes with, etc.) I didn't know anything about it, then, and assumed it was hardy. Out of pure luck, I planted it in my warmest micro-climate.

If you can wait until spring or even next fall, perhaps mine will have increased. If it hasn't, PDN seems to have this guy on a regular basis. There's also a variegated form, A. maximum 'Ling-Ling.' Maybe they'll have that one at PDN, too, and you can order both, thereby handily meeting the minimum order...

Have you looked at the Asarum listings at Asiatica Nursery? I've never ordered from them, but...(No, no, no, I've already blown my gardening budget! I'm not even going to the site to provide a link here. Sorry! I think it's asiatica.com)

Now, fellow zone-denial person, any thoughts on what I should do with my Cyclamen persicum? I won't hold you responsible for their outcome, of course; I'm just curious.

Amanda, visions of assorted Asarum dancing in head

I could not resist finding the nursery's web site - they have a remarkable assortment of asarums, 110! That's way more than I knew existed.

I'll probably wait until spring and then order some Green Panda - and see if I can resist the other hardy and near-hardy ones. Looks like the kind of website where certain types of gardeners could get into a lot of trouble.

Here is a link that might be useful: Asiatica Nursery

I just glanced out the window, and I saw a primrose in bloom! I've had them in November before, which is always a treat, but this was kind of unexpected this year. Kind of a nice surprise!

:)
Dee

Dee -- How Cool!

There's a dandelion blooming on the south side of the house and at this point, I'll take that :-)

Martie

I could finally report that there is nothing in bloom OUTDOORS, but....

...I have a first bloom on amaryllis today!

Would you all please join me in a moment of silence, to commemorate the annual retirement of Rozanne, Bionic Geranium and beloved friend to all perennial lovers lucky enough to have known her this year.
May she rest peacefully and come back in full vigor next year!

Hey! I've got some fall crocus in bloom! I noticed them blooming yesterday.

Earlier in the week, I raked out this area, which was just absolutely matted with leaves. I raked up some dead purple petals from the crocus, but some still lay flat on the ground and didn't rake up. I figured, oh, they're dead, but they're just still firmly attached. Well, it seems they revived and stood back up and decided to open up! There's only about 4 blooms, not a big deal, but a nice surprise.

I am a bit concerned as I see about a dozen little nubbins poking up through the ground around these crocus, and I wonder if these are more trying to come up now. If so, I hope they don't get damaged when they inevitably get hit by the cold.

:)
Dee

Ooh, Dee, that's great. And it reminds me that I'd better go clean out the hellebore beds - they're completely covered with maple leaves, a real mess. I know there are blooms under there, so I'll just lift out the clumps with my hands as well as I can.

My cyclamen leafed out well but I have not seen any blossoms on them; I'd better check that they're not also covered with leaves now.

I noticed some self-sown flowers in the "wildflower" garden outside my office building in Woods Hole this week. There were what looked like wood aster - pale blue - and some white achillea. Brave souls!

I am going thru withdrawal from taking pictures everyday, so I couldn't pass up an opportunity to take the camera outside today with the fresh coating of snow. I found a mum 'Lucie's Pink' still in somewhat bloom. I brushed a little snow off of one flower and grabbed a photo.

Oh Monique, how pretty! What a tough little bloom!

:)
Dee

Here is another post from the fall of 2005...that was amazing to have plants still growing that late.

That's only 3 - 4 weeks from now! I suspect we'll have a similar array this year.

Claire

Wow! That is a pretty flower in the snow!

Right now I have Zinnias, Bachelor Buttons, Nicotiana, Chrysanthemum, Pansies and Violets, Dianthus, Coreosporus, a few Spider Flowers, Evening Primrose and Black Eyed Susans. The Love Lies Bleeding is still putting on a display, but it looks a little spooky about now.

One lady was telling me her daffodills always blossom twice. I never knew they did that! I never get any this time of year.