Mid-December in the garden. You can tell we’ve been spared an early winter because the strawberry plants are just now turning color…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The lavender and rosemary are still happy, but the rosemary’s unlikely to make it through January…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Somehow, the Nicotiana (Flowering Tobacco) is still making flowers…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Euphorbia ‘Blackbird’ is psyched about the cooler temperatures, as is Dryopteris erythrosora ‘Brilliance’ (Autumn Fern)…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All three of the Cynara cardunculus (Cardoons) are growing like mad…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Ratibida columnifera (Mexican Hat or prairie coneflowers) recently bloomed again…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the bottlebrush flowers on the Sanguisorba tenuifolia ‘Alba’ (Great Burnet) are still hanging in there. Believe it or not, I spotted a few local die-hard honeybees on it just last week…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As usual, Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’ is going gangbusters. Temperature doesn’t seem to affect it much. Although it hasn’t taken on its typical fall coloring yet…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New growth on the Acanthus molls (Bear’s Breeches) is about 3′ across now…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My poppies are suddenly popping up again. And the Conradina verticulata (White Cumberland Rosemary), Festuca glauca ‘Elijah Blue’ (Blue Fescue), Origanum libanoticum (Cascading Ornamental Oregano) and Euphorbia myrsinites (Donkeytail Spurge) are still green (click to biggify)…

 

Even though it hails from the Mediterranean, the Marrubium rotundifolium (Silver-Edged Horehound) still looks good — though it’s missing its namesake silver margins. At its fee, the Thymus Pseudolanuginosus (Wooly Thyme) is still thriving…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turns out that if I wanted to, I could make holiday mojitos. The mint is still happy…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After I shot this, I ate the last two (wimpy-looking) raspberries…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nom nom nom. That’s pretty much it for the season.

Tags: garden, plants

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