What's blooming in your garden today?

This month's American Gardener ( www.ahs.org/publications/the_american_gardener/ ) has an article on Winter's Flowering Shrubs. Your local weather and climate might be pushing the edges of this a bit.

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Floribunda Rose, Easy Going.

I grew a bed of sunflowers this summer and let them go to see to feed the birds. Once they got so eaten and ugly I pulled them out and cleaned out the bed and planted some quinoa seeds, but I guess I didn't clean out the bed enough because this is what came up! Oh well, these will do!

Passiflora x kewensis (shown with Aristolochia foliage).

I have a new plant (to my yard) that I think is really going to be great! It's Salvia guaranitica 'Costa Rica Blue',and I'm looking forward to seeing lots of hummingbirds!

Another really cool plant to my garden which is in bloom in December in San Diego is this one: Penstemon gloxiniodes 'Royal Purple'. It sounds like it needs really goo

My Rosa hybrid Day Breaker has decided this is the perfect season to bloom! The blossoms then turn into bright red rose hips (fruit)