Well, mostly anyway! The weather since the last BloomDay has been good for the garden; rain and warm sun. Most plants have been tricked into believing that it is spring rather than the beginning of winter.
Rosa Sally Holmes is flowering more than at any time during the year
There has been a lot of rain in the last weekend; many of you will have seen images of Venice and maybe of road collapsing and swallowing a car in Tuscany. For more about the rain click here.
There is some autumn colour, the walnuts have lost their leaves, the pomegranate foliage is butter yellow and all the Miscanthus are looking beautiful but other plants are enjoying a second spring and I’m enjoying it too; in a small way it makes up for the torrid summer.
Glorious yellow of the pomegranate
Ceanothus has a few flowers the blue of the blooms matching the blue Italian sky.
Ceanothus repans
One Cistus has one flower (yes, I know that one flower proves nothing it is an anomaly). The moist ground has really prompted the roses into flower, there are more, even, than in October. During the early days of November I was surprised and delighted to see that the ends of all the branches of the Philadelphus had flowers, they only persisted for a week or so, so can’t be included in Bloomday for November but they deserve a mention.
Solanum jasminoides Album is covered in blooms and will probably continue to be until some really cold weather arrives. All the different varieties of Salvia are flowering profusely, I think I under-value them because I find it hard to get good images of them.
This post is late, yesterday I wasn’t feeling great so didn’t go into the garden to photograph the blooms, today it is very windy and the bright morning sun has made some of the colours a little strange. You can see most of what’s blooming in My Hesperides Garden by clicking on the image below.
Rosa Rhapsody in Blue
Thank you to Carol at Maydreams Garden for hosting this interesting meme, take some time to visit some of the other gardens joining in this month to see what’s blooming around the world.
I’ve been reading some wonderful posts about autumn foliage colour, please feel free to link to Garden Bloggers Foliage Day on the 22nd of each month – I think November may be the most colourful so far!
Creating my own garden of the Hesperides 
Glad that you get to enjoy so many blooms now, to make up for your burning summer.
Thank you, it does seem like a bonus that the garden is so pleasurable now, I was very down about the garden during the drought. Christina
It is good to see that your plants have bounced back. Just a little strategic pruning was needed?
As gardeners we appreciate every bloom the garden gives us 🙂 Your Rhapsody in Blue is such a beautiful colour, four flowers at once, perfect for a vase on the kitchen table!
I hate cutting flowers from the borders. I want to begin a cuttings bed so I can cut blooms without denuding the garden. Christina
Beautiful flowers, it must make up for your searing summer, your plants knew what to do for the best, just shut down and wait for the rain, hope you soon feel 100% again.
Thanks Pauline. It certainly makes up for the summer, I must try to remember this next summer. Christina
You are certainly making up from your arid summer!
I struggle to photograph Salvias as well, I have a gorgeous cream one and I have tried several times to blog about it but cant get any photos for it.
Here its all mists and mellowness, very autumnal which I really like. I love your pomegranete tree looks lovely
The Pomegrantite comes alive in the autumn sunshine and positively glows. Christina
Pretty flowers Christina – I hope you are feeling much better today.
Have a lovely weekend.
thank you for your kind wishes. Christina
Love your roses, I can’t get enough of roses and I am always loooking for some I haven’t seen before that might be suitable for my tiny garden 🙂
Ah! Christina, your garden always inspires me. Your roses are simply stunning!
Get better soon!
Thank you Christine, that’s very kind. Christina
I will certainly link in with foliage…love that your garden looks and feels like spring…with all the rain, mud and flowers it certainly looks like spring too.
Red tones salvias are almost impossible to photograph, I’m always taking pictures to the yellow and the white ones, maybe to make up for the red, the deep pink and the magenta ones! You really have a lot of roses in bloom, my very young ones have at least produced some flowers but they’re now over.
Wonderful post for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day!
Pretty roses!
And all those beautiful sunny colors in your garden!
Have a great day!
Lea
Lea’s Menagerie
Thank you Lea, this autumn has had some wonderful sunny days. Christina
Christina, so wonderful to see the charming blooms and colors in your autumn garden. Your Rosa Sally Holmes is beautiful with its soft pinkness and I love the bluish hue of the Rosa Rhapsody in Blue. What a wild ride you’ve had this year with the extreme weather. Hope you’re feeling better. Susie
Thank you Susie. Sally Holmes is an amazing rose, I have threeinthe garden all grown from cuttings, they are all now large shrubs (1.8 m x a spread of a little less). The flowers in summer are pure white while those of autumn are pink. Christina
Your garden is beautiful, as always! I enjoyed the slideshow. You really do have a lot of blooms, despite the lateness of the season. Milder weather here also has prompted roses and other bloomers in my garden to behave like it’s spring. I also have a hard time photographing salvia, sadly, because they are pretty plants.
Thanks for your comment on my own blog. Of course you may link to my posts. I would be honored!
Thanks Debbie. I’m so glad I mentioned about the salvia as it seems everyone has the same problem and so I don’t feel so bad. Christina
Wow – using Flickr really shows how wonderful your roses are Christina! You have some real beauties – are they all usually still flowering at this time of year?
I think this year there are even more than usual but yes, there are always some during November. Christina