Yes Virginia even in December there's still flowers blooming ! Below is the very late blooming native mum 'raydon's favorite ' that persists in this the last month of the year.
December started off mild. I cleared the garden of excess leaves and began to battle an infestation of voles by spraying with a castor oil mixture.
Because I have a variety of evergreen and deciduous shrubs the garden has a strong structure that looks good even in the deep of December .
Below, Edgeworthia, aka, Chinese paperbush, shows off her December finery. Her fragrance is very powerful.
Christmas week brought a deep freeze with temperatures in the teen's. My Lady Banks rose, an evergreen, suffered damage as did other usually sturdy perennials. Overall the good news is that many plants were able to survive. The hellebores are going to be late this season.
From a daytime high of 15 to 70 degrees is predicted for our New Year's day weather.
