Re: Winter & What's in Bloom

Well, Jim, your "winter" sounds like a lovely early fall in MD:-)  I
have exactly 1 plant still blooming- my climbing aster; well, that's
not exactly true as the pansies the slugs haven't eaten are
blooming...all else is history.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: james singer <jsinger@igc.org>
> 
> Winter seems to have arrived. It has been getting down into the low
50s 
> at night recently. Still in the high 70s, low 80s in the
afternoons, 
> though. And the air is very dry for a change.
> 
> Lots of plants are blooming--or still blooming, especially the 
> allamandas, begonias, Mexican petunias [also called Florida
bluebells], 
> ground orchids, crown of thorns, and various jatrophas. And the 
> poinsettias are beginning to color up.
> 
> Most spectacular now, however, is the Turk's cap, Malvaviscus
arboreus. 
> There is a house not far from the plantation that has a Turk's cap 
> hedge along the street; must be hundreds, if not thousands, of
blooms 
> on it. Really spectacular.
> 
> This is also our bedding plant season. The garden centers at
Wal-Mart 
> and Home Depot are loaded with petunias, impatiens, marigolds, 
> crossandras, fibrous begonias, dianthus, and so on, as well as 
> vegetable and herb plants.
> 
>
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