November Garden Blogger's Bloom-and-Foliage Day

Shall I call it that, or shall I go for the equally appropriate alternative: Garden Blogger Rises from the Dead Day? There are more flowers blooming in the yard right now than the ones I'm going to show you. I just didn't get around to photographing the others because I've been busy working 12-hour days, 13-hour days, 14-hour days, 15-hour days . . . and 16-hour days. But now there is a pause in the endless volume of work. It will definitely be all too brief a pause, but at least it happened at the right time to allow me to celebrate Bloom Day. Sort of. With an incomplete set of pictures of the current blooms.

Here is the California fuchsia (Epilobium canum 'Calistoga'), which has been lighting up the front sidewalk garden since early September.



( More blooms and pretty foliage! New plants, too! )