Love all your blooms Suga!

The tippy tops of Pineapple Sage in a large pot outside my bedroom window so I can watch the hummers....

OK here's some blooms from today.
1. Bilbergia nutans (Queen's Tears)

2. Red orchid

3. Yellow orchid

Tuberous begonias

Stapliad gigantea (Starfish Flower)

The Stapliad is really blooming late, and if it gets cold tonight I'm NOT bringing it in. It smells like a dead thing!
I do keep it inside in the winter though, after the blooms are gone.

That Stapliad is a beauty ! Your orchids are Epidendrums. I have three...a red, an orange, and a mini purple. I don't know where you are, but mine live outside, year round. I got some pics today, but I'm to tired to fight the pc tonight. I'll try to post mine tomorrow.

Beautiful blooms DomehomeDee

Gotta love all these November blooms!!! I just got in an order of daffodil bulbs that my mission this coming week is to get them in ground

Dee, that must be the stapelia gigantea? gorgeous.....
gotta love the things that bloom in November!

My Bougainvillea 'Raspberry Ice' is still holding on to its bracts and leaves..before it is quick to go deciduous:
I move it nearer to the house at night, then move it back to its usual location during daytime to get better sun:

I'm feeling guilty about not posting any pictures of my pathetic gardens so I got a few yesterday before my camera started acting up.
Pink Plumeria, mini Epiphyllum ellipticum, and a Mum that's trying to take over the place

Zygopetalum cynosure 'Bluebird', Gerberara Snow Ballet, Epi. Secundum


Couple of Gerberas and Pentas


Euphorbia Geroldii (not a pretty plant, but always in bloom) Autumn Salvia with Hesperaloe 'Brakelight' in the foreground. There is a sport on that purple Salvia that is almost the same color as the 'Brakelight' but I don't think it shows in the pic., and Rosemary

And Last
NOID Dendrobium and a very bad pic. of Epi. Radicans (and the house across the street) In the lower part of the pic. you can see the color

I love all your photos Carol! I cannot get my epidendrum to bloom ever Maybe I should put it in more direct light.
Hey, how is your clivia doing at this time? I did not bring it out to feel some nice chill this Fall, wanted to see if it will still try to form the bloomstalk. It is chilly in our room anyways.

well, everyone has more in bloom than I do....I'm just now realizing that I'm maybe going to have problems here with Autumn blooming plants. I do remember others mentioning hoping their certain plants bloom before it's too late. We've head a couple of light frosts that have not bothered much, but I'm waiting for seeds to ripen on my salvia atrocyanea and salvia rhinosina and my salvia azurea is just now blooming... I'll just have to be happy with things that do well here that did not down South...

Tarev, The Epis. get lots of sun, and will take temps down to freezing, at least briefly. That being said, mine are species. The one hybrid I tried was not as tough. The Epi. Secundum has been with me for about 30 years, and is just recovering from repotting. The Epi. Radicans has been around about 20 years. Both are about 4' tall
My Clivia seem to be done for the winter. All of my plants except the warmer growing orchids live outside year-round, but we rarely get very light frost here. So far, the orchid shack hasn't gotten below 51, but I'm watching the forcasts closely, and have a little programmable heater in there, in case.

Thanks for the info Carol!

Hey Carol, nice plants. I'm in Arroyo Grande, that's next door to Pismo Beach. I'm inland enough to be in zone 9a so I get a light freeze every couple years. I leave the Epidendrums outside year round too. They are under the trees so they do alright. I used to have an indoor orchid enclosure until I got scale bugs so bad I just gave up.
I bring the best looking of the Staplia Gigantea in when it gets cold but I've so many plants from cuttings, well I leave all but one outside.

Oncidium Sharry Baby has started to bloom..got three spikes this year..excited to see the rest of the blooms later!

What a pretty red Oncidium. I love red flowers.
And Carol, you sure have a lot of blooms for November.
I'm shocked at what's blooming in my garden. Several daylilllies are blooming today and that giant stapliad is working overtime.
I have a yellow Brugmansia that just decided to bloom again. It's supposed to get cooler at night tomorrow, maybe my plants will finally figure out it isn't spring.
I looked out the window this morning and this little deer was munching on a Nicotiana, ick.

Love your blooms DHD! And though it just munched on your plants..but bambi looks cute

I am really happy with the echium vulgare / Viper's Bugloss. We've had a couple of good frosts and it's unfazed, flowering away at a time whem not a lot else is and the bees are liking that. It's tough, drought tolerant, can be invasive, but that can also be controlled from the beginning by not letting it 'go wild', cutting the seedheads before they scatter. I'm thinking that it will be my repeat performer in the front border, weaving through the grasses and shrubs. In the lower left hand corner of the first pic, there's a bee on it....









Just look at this digiplexis! It not only has never stopped flowering, here it is in the midst of November and frosts and it's still putting out new buds...Super Plant!

Hmm. My Digiplexus are all resting. Maybe they need that frost.