What's blooming today?
Wordless Wednesday
I can’t believe it. With this extra warm October weather we’ve been having I think my roses are blooming even more than they did through most of the summer. The garden looks lovely.
We’ve also had a lot of rain in the last week. Much needed rain, and it’s really helped give the garden a much needed boost.
I thought I planted a clematis.
I’m sure it’s flowered for the last two years and that it produced flowers that look very much like a clematis’ flowers.
This is the first year that I’ve ever noticed berries on the vine.
I’ve even got another “clematis” growing with one of my honeysuckles and it too appears to be producing berries.
I tried doing a search to see if any clematis produce fruit or berries and I didn’t have much luck in my search. Does anyone know if this is a clematis and if it’s not what could it be?
This is so strange!
I’ve got to admit that whatever this is the berries are nice and plump and healthy looking.
I’d like to wish a Happy Thanks Giving to my fellow Canadian visitors. It’s a long weekend here and that’s one of the reasons why my GTS post is a bit late. I hope that those celebrating Thanks Giving are having a fantastic long weekend.
Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.
So far October is shaping up to be more like the end of August or early September temperature wise.
It’s been no less than 10 degrees higher than the average temperatures for this time of year and often a lot higher than that.
This weekend is Thanks Giving here in Canada and the temps are supposed to be close to 30 Celsius each day. That’s the mid 80’s for those of you who are stuck in Fahrenheit.
I remember Thanks Giving weekends when we’ve had snow or when it’s been so cold and rainy that you don’t want to step outside. Luckily most aren’t like that, but neither are most as warm as this one will be.
There’s also been quite a bit of humidity. On Wednesday night I was out with my husband shopping and when we came back to our car at about 8 in the evening the car was blanketed with moisture. It wasn’t cold out so it wasn’t condensation due to temperature change. It was warm and sticky wet humid.
Then, last night at about 6 pm a strange fog descended on the city. You can see photos at BlogTO if you’d like to see how dense the fog was the blanketed the city during daylight hours. The CN tower has clouds at half it’s height! Very strange.
As much as I’m enjoy this strangely warm weather I’m worried that it’s giving my plants the wrong message. How are my roses ever supposed to get the message to stop growing, leaving out and creating new buds if it doesn’t begin to cool down?
Many plants need the gradual cooling of temperatures to signal them to go into dormancy. Without beginning to slow down and become dormant before the harsh cool weather of winter comes along the plants might end up having more winter damage.
How’s the weather in your area? Do you wonder strange weather in your area might affect your plants health?