A Fantastic December Bloom Day

 Well, for all my laziness...Mother Nature never stops working, thankfully......if you aren't familiar with bloom day it is where garden blogger's from around the world post what is blooming on the 15th of each month.  You will want to see it on May Dream's Gardens,,,,I invite you to visit

This has been an incredibly mild winter....if I had actually took care of my garden this year, it might have really been awesome...I have literally ignored the garden most of the year but sat back and enjoyed it........  The above is Peach Drift

Now I did plant rye grass.....this is after I just mowed it

The roses haven't stopped blooming despite me.....Grenada Rose

 I wish winter were like this year for the next few months...

Encore is taking off

 This has been the most fantastic December ever!

 A misty foggy morning

Green Ice really likes colder weather

There was no end to my laziness this year.....so the rose hips are abound...

"Johnny Bear"......the first rose I got for Valentine's Day from the man I never want to take a breath that he isn't taking one too......aka my husband

Bad picture but the bottlebrush are blooming

I cannot believe the the hydragea are still blooming and this picture doesn't do justice....they are a brilliant blue

It has been weird, the spring bearers are blooming now...now encores will bloom as much as they need food

Tulip Tree

The greenhouse, the 

The azaleas that bloom in the spring are going now

The popcorn is finally losing their leaves

Journal Notes...Greenhouse Construction Continues, Polar Vortex, Colors of Fall

Well, my husband continues to work on the greenhouse.  It looks like a house!  He makes it seem so easy!  Next week the news is reporting a polar vortex.  I will be honest, when, I  feel reports on the news are highly overdramatized (to be polite) and my internal monologue thinks, you are telling me things to make me watch commercials....the more horrible, the more inclined you feel people are to watch.  I actually didn't watch the news, my mother told me of it.  I get my information online.  All that being said, it will get cold next week.

The polycarbonate is very "wavy".  I asked what will be done about the "cracks."  He said is putting a ridge cap.

I will still need to recover the floors at the least but at this juncture I will be in the way...at least, this weekend I will be.

I wanted to take a good look at the flowers before I do not see color for 3 months.  I opted not to put rye grass down this year...but I feel some has reseeded from previous years.

These camellias are to bloom in the spring, I thought.......

I think roses really like the cold.

First Prize

Don Juan

Blue Girl

Weeds are dying away, maybe that is why it looks better.

I believe this Belinda's Dream, but I am not real sure.

Granada

Black Bacarra is unusually large from what I am used to seeing.

 The leaves of trees are starting to change.

The above were taken yesterday. The ones below were taken this morning.

My peacock is named after a dear friend who died a year ago today.  Joe.  I cut some of the flowers and visited him today....miss him still.