November in the Garden

This post starts with a hodgepodge of stuff that caught my eye the Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and it ends with a look at what Dale’s bees are liking now.

Here in North Alabama, we had our first frost the Tuesday morning before Thanksgiving. It was very light. Some plants that should have been killed or knocked down for the season are still hanging on. This dwarf elephant ear (Colocasia fallax ‘Silver Dollar’) probably wouldn’t have made it, but it’s in a protected area, so only half of it died.

Dwarf elephant ear, Silver Dollar, Colocasia fallax

We still have a little bit of fall color.

Fall foliage, dogwood

The lake is a beautiful, blue background for the red leaves on my dogwood tree.

Blueberry Bush, fall foliage

My blueberry bush still looks great.

A few annuals are still alive and blooming despite the light frost. The next picture is Aztec® Violet Wink Verbena, which should be dead because it got lower than 32° F. It’s one of the free plants that Ball Flora sent this spring, and it’s been blooming since I got it in April.

Aztec Violet VerbenaSuperbena® Violet Ice should also be dead because it’s listed as zone 8, and we’ve had some pretty hard winters here in zone 7b since I planted it in spring of 2013. Proven Winners sent me this one. Like the other verbena I showed you, it was free because I’m a Plant Ho :~)

Violet Ice Verbena

I was surprised that this Lenten rose (Helleborus) is already blooming.

Lenten rose, Helleborus

This next picture is a tea olive (Osmanthus heterophyllus ‘Purpurea’).

Tea olive, Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Purpureus'

Osmanthus heterophyllus ‘Purpureus’

The sweet-smelling blooms are more noticeable on this variety of tea olive than they are on Osmanthus fragrans. A week earlier the flowers were a sparkling white, but they’re a little past their prime in this photo. Regardless, the bees still like them.
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Osmanthus, tea olive flower, bee

Can you see the yellow pollen in her pocket? It’s always interesting to watch Dale’s bees work. They’re so busy. They really like this Ajania pacifica ‘Gold and Silver’. You might know this plant as Chrysanthemum ‘Gold and Silver’, but they changed the name for some reason.

Gold and Silver

I like this plant because it blooms so late in the year, but I hate how dead and ugly the bottom leaves get. Again, the bees don’t care. They just want the orange pollen.

bees, pollen, winter

A few other pollinators were enjoying the flowers as well.

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Ajania pacifica, Gold and Silver, butterflyIt seems too late in the year for butterflies, but the weather has been so mild, they’re still hanging around. Sorry the picture is a little blurry. She was moving fast.

The other plant that the bees are all over right now is this pineapple sage.

bee on pineapple sage

I don’t think she’s getting pollen. I don’t see any in her pocket. She’s probably drinking nectar, and she’s not the only one. The plant buzzes with dozens of bees.

This was an unorganized, rambling post, but I wanted to share my favorite pre-Thanksgiving pictures. I would have posted them sooner, but we had a big family weekend, and it took me a while to get back in the groove. Hopefully you had an enjoyable Thanksgiving as well.

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