Because daylight savings was over mid November.,Interestingly, as difficult as the summer was on our plants what with the heat and dry, the September rains and the heat finally breaking caused a lot of greenery to develop, even some flowerings in October and now November! The plants that bounce back when it rains like Bleeding Heart, Bluebells, pussytoes, columbines, Penstemons,Heucheras Lewesias,nodding onion, boykinias and trifoliate foamflowers all came back and are still quite prominent despite the date, due to the persistent mild weather in the 50s and 60s. Fortunately the Globemallow (orange flowers) is doing great this year, it must have liked the sun and heat. It used to get rust on the leaves and fail when it was in planters. Also liking dry sun without fading first: Beargrass, Wild Blue Flax, Monardella Ordorissima, Gilia (although they don’t much like the pine needles where they are), all the Buckwheats, Yerba Buena, Sea Thrift, and Asters.
There are other plants that are still flowering, even in November. They include pussytoes, though the pic above is not from now-they are still in the bud stage right now. But Deciduous Rhodies, Penstemon Tolmei, Lewisia Columbiana are actually in bloom. The hummingbirds go after the strawberry tree buds and our feeder, of course.
Brodiaea is coming up at multiple places, as of the LAST WEEK OF OCTOBER! This pic is from last year’s Brodiaea experiment, but there are several sites up this year, too.
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