It really shouldn't be like
this. It has gone past the middle of November and flowers that have
been blooming since the summer are still in bright colour.
I took all of these
photographs yesterday in my Yorkshire garden. Like many people in the
UK we have had only one frost this autumn and this wasn't
particularly hard. Last year was a very mild winter and if you
believe the weather reports it seems rain rather than snow will be
falling from the sky in the coming weeks.
I'm very conscious of the
weather everyday as I drag the kids up and down the road to school
and nursery. This time four years ago I had a two and half week old
baby and a couple of days later the snow came and didn't melt until
after the new year. Then there was the year it seemed to snow every
week from January to March. Thankfully by then I had an all-terrain
pushchair.
So still going strong are
the geraniums both the red ones and the pink ones still in bud. I
took the petunias out of the pots weeks and weeks ago but decided to
keep the geraniums in as they still looked nice. Even with that one
frost they don't seem to be showing any signs of blackening.
We have fuchsias in pots
which we never took in last year and they survived the winter. Then
there are the fuchsias planted in the ground. These are all very
different varieties but seem to be thriving. One of them we bought
from Chesterfield Market and it was grown on a nursery in the High
Peak. If it was able to cope with those conditions no wonder there
are still flowers on it now.
Mr JibberJabber has a
particular fondness for fuchsias and on our visits to the Isle Of
Wight he kept seeing delicate pink and white fuchsias. On a visit to
a local garden centre last year we saw one for sale. It was just a
single stem but has thrived in a sheltered spot in our front garden.
It's not just geraniums and
fuchsias that are still flowering. On my daily walks I have spotted
roses of all colours and varieties. There's even a row of white
Japanese Anemones with no regard to the fact it's November. What
flowers are still blooming in your garden?
Your hydrangea looks exactly like mine and our geraniums are also still flowering :) The weather doesn't know what it's doing at the moment. We seem to have a very mild day followed by a very cold one. Lovely fuchsia pics!
ReplyDeleteYesterday was warm and sunny but today was cold and raining. I never know what to wear!
Deletemost of my flowers are gone now but my miniature fuchsia are still doing the well like yours .. so pretty x
ReplyDeleteAll fuchsias seem to be doing so well this year. I don't want them to stop flowering.
DeleteWe've had our first hard frosts and our hydrangea has completely wilted, as they do! I adore fuchsias, one of my favourites, lovely to still see yours flowering x #HDYGG
ReplyDeleteLovely photos. We too still have fuchsia and geraniums blooming! We've had no frost as yet though... I had a baby in Nov 2010 and it snowed that year, and a baby in Dec 2012, and it also snowed! We must be due more snow this year I think (although no baby for me this winter ;-) )
ReplyDeleteAfter two winters in snow (in the US), I'm enjoying the milder weather here...and like you have fuchsias still growing like mad in the garden. Lovely photos
ReplyDeleteYes, I noticed some bulbs I planted earlier have begun to sprout-so if it gets very cold they are going to suffer I think.
ReplyDeleteIt's bonkers weather isn't it? Our fuschias are still out but the dahlias have had enough. And the begonias still going strong. I am happy though to still get a bit of fuschia love this late into the year :)
ReplyDeleteIsn't it crazy! We have fuchsias still flowering here too, very odd! Our Spring bulbs are sprouting already, will be interesting/disappointing to see what becomes of them
ReplyDeleteLove the hydrangea, must really add one to the garden
The weather is so odd, but it is giving us lots of lovely colour now :)
ReplyDeleteIt's lovely to see the flowers still going strong but then I do like some cold crisp days and wish they would arrive!
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing to still be seeing flashes of colour in the gardens. I just hope we don't get a frost as I'm enjoying seeing colour again x #HDYGG
ReplyDeleteWhilst our garden does not have loads of flowers even in summer those we do have are still flowering thanks to the mild weather ... will we pay for this later though or will we have another mild winter? The boys want snow but I don't!
ReplyDeleteWonderful to see so much colour in the garden at this time of year. Good planting.
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