Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day November 2017

On the fifteenth of each month, Carol at May Dreams Gardens hosts Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day.  Click on the above link to see what's blooming all over the world this month.

Here in my zone 8 Pacific Northwest Garden, I can usually find something in bloom year round but blooms are becoming fewer at this time of year. There are some summer stragglers that keep going like these.








Salvia 'Hot Lips' has been blooming up a storm all summer but this is the first time it's been included in one of my GBBD posts.




Okay, these are seed capsules of Euonymus europaeus 'Red Ace'  but they're much more showy than the flowers of this plant.

It's always a race to see if Tropaeolum tuberosum will get to open it's blooms before frost.  Most years it makes it.



Arbutus unedo has just started opening scads of blooms.  Usually there's also cool red fruit hanging around with the flowers.

It's hard to resist putting a few pansies in pots by the back door as they bloom all winter.  The plants may lay flat on the ground and look dead during a freezing spell but they bounce right back up as soon as it thaws.




This will probably be the last month for hardy cyclamen flowers.  Fortunately, that fabulous foliage will hang around all winter.






This poor brugmansia has had a very difficult summer, loosing all of it's leaves at least three times due to spider mites and whitefly.  I think we've got things under control now and  there are a few leaves and even more blooms.