What's Looking Good in December 2024

[Zigs]

November's thread here

 

[Logan]

Thanks Zigs

Not much in this month

 

[Anniekay]

We just had our first frost, got down to 27f, and this self- seeded Sunflower is close to the house and still untouched by frost.

Now I get a short sunflower !! The 10' from this spring was supposed to be the short variety !!

 

[Zigs]

The view at 3.25pm today Sun had just gone down.

 

[Zigs]

Sun coming up at 7.55 am

 

[Anniekay]

Amazingly, after 5 days in a row with temps below freezing, Things are still flowering !!




Hosta hasn't been affecred yet.

And the flax plant is happy.

 

[Zigs]

Cor, you got more going on than us Annie



Found one of Tetter's trees quite interesting though

 

[Anniekay]

Cor, you got more going on than us Annie

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Found one of Tetter's trees quite interesting though

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Cor !! I'm in a warmer climate than you folks wayyyy up there by the Arctic circle !!
What plant is that in the first pic with all the clusters of fruit ?
Is that tree a Prunus or what kind is it? I love the peely red bark but why is it all naked where it's peeled off? Looks like it's wearing a droopy diaper , almost !!

 

[Zigs]

Tee hee The Polar bears will warm them up

The red thingers are Rose Hips but the Green thingers are Ivy berries. They're not ripe yet, they'll turn darker as winter goes on.

I'll let @Tetters tell you about the tree

 

[Tetters]

Amazingly, after 5 days in a row with temps below freezing, Things are still flowering !!
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Hosta hasn't been affecred yet.
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And the flax plant is happy.

Fancy that! I think your last plant comes from Tasmania where a large part of my family live - ''Dianella Tasmanica'' I think it's called. Blue berries and little blue flowers?
The tree that Zigs put on is a Chinese Red Birch I think it's ''albosinensis'' There are a few different Birch trees

 

[Anniekay]

Fancy that! I think your last plant comes from Tasmania where a large part of my family live - ''Dianella Tasmanica'' I think it's called. Blue berries and little blue flowers?
The tree that Zigs put on is a Chinese Red Birch I think it's ''albosinensis'' There are a few different Birch trees

It is the Dianella Flax and I love that red birch !! So unusual !!

 

[Anniekay]

It's Still growing and flowering and we hsve had nightly frosts 8 out of 11 days this month

The honesty plants I grew from seed late this summer and I hope they'll flower this coming spring.

 

[Jersey Devil]

This is a $5 poinsetta from 3 or 4 years ago that somehow I kept alive. Keep it outside in Summer and bring it in in the Fall where it begins to start turning red again just in time for Xmas. Almost 3 feet tall and started out maybe 10 inches. IDK how long I can keep it going cause its too cold here in Winter to plant it in the ground. But I'll do my best. It was actually fuller, but a storm knocked it over and broke one of the branches off. Its fun when you grow stuff without having a clue how to

 

[Anniekay]

This is a $5 poinsetta from 3 or 4 years ago that somehow I kept alive. Keep it outside in Summer and bring it in in the Fall where it begins to start turning red again just in time for Xmas. Almost 3 feet tall and started out maybe 10 inches. IDK how long I can keep it going cause its too cold here in Winter to plant it in the ground. But I'll do my best. It was actually fuller, but a storm knocked it over and broke one of the branches off. Its fun when you grow stuff without having a clue how to

Good Job !! Poinsettia's are not easy to keep going let alone rebloom the next year !!

 

[Tetters]

This is a $5 poinsetta from 3 or 4 years ago that somehow I kept alive. Keep it outside in Summer and bring it in in the Fall where it begins to start turning red again just in time for Xmas. Almost 3 feet tall and started out maybe 10 inches. IDK how long I can keep it going cause its too cold here in Winter to plant it in the ground. But I'll do my best. It was actually fuller, but a storm knocked it over and broke one of the branches off. Its fun when you grow stuff without having a clue how to

That is amazing. I have managed to keep a poinsettia going for several months (with difficulty) but to keep one looking as healthy as that one I thought, was unheard of. Well done!

 

[Zigs]

Tetters will tell you what this flower is

 

[Sheal]

Is it Viburnum Bodnantense 'Dawn' @Tetters ?

 

[Tetters]

Is it Viburnum Bodnantense 'Dawn' @Tetters ?

Yes it is. Spot on -bodnantese Charles Lamont is also pink, and bod. debens is a whiter one with a pink tinge, but mine is definitely Dawn. I grew it from a cutting I did at work.

 

[Tetters]

It's Still growing and flowering and we hsve had nightly frosts 8 out of 11 days this month
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The honesty plants I grew from seed late this summer and I hope they'll flower this coming spring.
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Just looking back over this thread, and I thought how healthy your Honesty plants were looking. Is that the one with white flowers or purple? Mine were purple, but the show stopper is in the seed pods.

 

[Anniekay]

Just looking back over this thread, and I thought how healthy your Honesty plants were looking. Is that the one with white flowers or purple? Mine were purple, but the show stopper is in the seed pods.

Thanks @Tetters I thought it was going to be pink, but I could be mistaken. I can't wait to see the pods and hope to use them in a flower arrangement.