Bougainvillea
Normally bright magenta, I love how some of the brachts are turning a deep orange in response to the cooler temperatures
Arizona Yellow Bells (Tecoma stans stans)
This should be their last flush of blooms before the cooler temperatures of winter arrive.
Globe Mallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua 'Pink')
Getting ready for a big show this winter and spring.
My little Purple Violas showing their pretty faces
Cascalote Tree (Caesalpinia cacalaco)
Will soon reach it's peak bloom.
Firecracker Penstemon (Penstemon eatonii)
My favorite perennial. This is one of my first blooms of the season.
'Rio Bravo' Sage (Leucophyllum langmaniae 'Rio Bravo')
A reliable summer and fall bloomer, but is ready to stop blooming soon. *This is one of the shrubs that people prune incorrectly into 'cupcakes' and 'round balls'.
Valentine Shrub (Eremophila maculata 'Valentine')
A single, first bloom. This is my favorite shrub, which blooms winter through spring, peaking at Valentine's Day.
My other little Violas
Bower Vine (Pandorea jasminoides)
Red Globe Mallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua 'Red)
Blooming alongside it's 'Pink' sister.
Radiation Lantana 'Desert Sunset'
The last of the blooms. This plant will soon stop blooming with winter temperatures.
Mexican Bird-of-Paradise (Caesalpinia mexicana)
Ready to bloom. I love this plant because it blooms off and on all year.
November is a wonderful time of year here in the desert because we get to enjoy overlapping blooming seasons. The summer plants are getting ready to stop flowering while the winter flowers are getting ready to show off their floral beauty.
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35 comments:
Lots of pretties still blooming at your place. The violas are my fav.
Interesting to see so many pretty blooms! I'm looking forward to seeing all the winter blooms, too, in your garden, especially when mine will be under a blanket of snow. The Valentine Shrub and the Mexican Bird of Paradise are two plants I'm going to have to look for the next time I'm in Arizona.
We call that Mexican Bird-Of-Paradise
'Pride of Barbados' here. We have colors; orange/pink, and yellow/gold. Your yellow seems to be brighter than ours. Ours is kind of mousy, especially compared to the orange/pink.
Thanks for sharing all your blossoms. I know where we will need to look when winter is on us.....
This is a wonderful post. These flowers are beautiful and the photos are really exquisite.
It's just full of flowers down there. You do have a great assortment of summer and fall bloomers.
Beautiful pictures, I especially like the rio brave sage, just lovely. :)
Lovely to see all your vibrant blooms and I look forward to the winter flowers too. I love the photo and plant of the Mexican Bird of Paradise especially. Carol
You have a lot of pretty and colorful blooms, too. That Tecoma stans is really floriferous! I would like to try the Caesalpinia cacalaco and yellow Mexican Bird-of-Paradise-have to look for seed. Also like the pink trumpet vine-never saw that one before.
Your blooms are so pretty -I'm just gonna love coming to your place this winter.
vickie
Beautiful photos, I love that Firecracker Penstemon...note to self to find one!
Winter flowers, thats what we have inside the house. Interesting things to learn from you.
I wonder how is winter in the desert?
Is there snow or does everything flowering plant stop blooming?
A lovely injection of much need colour into the grey days we are currently having here ... bright and beautiful
K
Love all those blooms. It looks so vibrant there! One of my son's friends and his parents visited Arizona and brought back the bird of paradise seeds (there were in a pod-I think it was this) especially for me. Try as I might I could not grow them. Such a shame too as it is a very pretty yellow!
Wow your blooms look great!
Love the sweet faces of the pansies. Your shrubs are most interesting. The Valentine Shrub is one I look forward to seeing in full bloom later in the season.
So how cold is your winter? Guess I could look it up. Do you keep your Bougainvillea out year round?
Thanks for all of the pictures, and for telling us their names. It's nice to know what is growing in other's gardens at this time of year.
Hi Nicolle - love the flowers and I could almost feel the warmth. Recently we were in Nevada and I noticed a gray green shrub grown in the public places that some had sheared into a hedge and it had pink flowers that looked like penstemons But the shrub was large. I asked someone what it was and he said a sage. But, I don't think so. Does that describe something that grows your way? Gloria
Gorgeous, gorgeous photos. I wonder if I could grow that Radiation Lantana 'Desert Sunset' - it would make quite a statement in my big rock garden.
It's all perfection! Globe Mallows are one of my faves. thanks
Hello,
Thank you so much for your comments. I changed my blog template so that I could have larger photos :)
Hi Susie,
Penstemon are easy to grow from seed, so you might try that way. I should have some seed available from my plant in spring. I can always mail you some.
Hi James,
It does get a little cold here. It snows in the mountains surrounding us, but we rarely get any down here. But it only takes a 1 hour drive to get to the snow in the winter. We grow many tropical plants and we also have many plants that bloom all winter long.
Hi Janet,
We get down to the 30's and even the 20's sometimes. We keep our Bougainvilleas outdoors. The tops do get killed back by frost, but they grow back very quickly in the spring.
Hello Gloria,
The shrub you are talking about is called Texas Sage (Leucophyllum frutescens). Unfortunately, they are pruned into 'balls and cupcakes'. I have a previous post about them. They are beautiful, especially when pruned correctly. Their flowers are lovely. My 'Rio Bravo' Sage is closely related.
Have a great day!
Noelle
Gorgeous stuff! Well it hit 60 degrees here yesterday and we don't have hardly any flowers to show -- I'll be back next month on bloom day for sure.
What vivid, cheerful blooms! I love all the bright colors. It's mostly dull around my garden, though we did have a very saturated, medium-blue sky this morning. Thank goodness for some color from above.
Such beautiful blooms. I visited Phoenix in September, and despite the 104 degree heat, the flowers all over the city were gorgeous. Your photography is stunning. I also very much enjoyed your previous post on the hidden garden - the surprise of it had to make it so special. Thanks again for your great blog.
Wow! I love them all..I especially loved the globe mallow picture..gorgeous!! what a sparklig post!! I enjoyed it!
Kiki~
Beautiful plants, many I know will do well in my garden. I plan to go to the Davis Arboretum and check out their all stars before I plant.
oh wow! i am amazed to see that despite being so far away, in such different climatic conditions you have many of the same flowers that i have around me - the bougainvilleas, lantana, firecrackers and the caesalpinias! they look lovely! i particularily love the violas.
Wonderful photos Noelle. Bougainvillea must be so tough and adaptable. It grows well in the tropics, in temperate areas and now I see it in your desert!
The globe mallow i know as lavatera?
I also love penstemons - I grow dark burgundy ones.
The eremophila is an Australian native like me.
Mallow and violas are my favorites here, but the last image is oh so interesting!
What beautiful flowers! I must become a migrating snow bird in the future! Those Mallows are beautiful and I especially like the Mexican Bird of Paradise (I will have to read more about that one).
So very beautiful. There is such a variety of colors in your garden. It is interesting to see the different flowers there compared to here. Of course ours are all done for the year and you are ready to welcome some new ones. At least I can visit your blog and see the colors when it is snowing here.
I can't say which is my favourite...they're all so beautiful! And lovely photography! I haven't seen the yellow Mexican Bird Of Paradise. The orange/red is common around here.
You have so many wonderful photos of your blooms and I even grow some of them. I love seeing what's blooming for you, and learning names of plants.
FlowerLady
Lucky you sun and lovely flowers. Makes me warm just looking.
I think we share a lot of the same plants in our gardens.
My bougainvilleas are in bloom now too and the lantanas are always in bloom.
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