Winter Blooming Plants

I am just grateful that the grass does not grow much during winter.

If you remember, I had done some coloring of my pots and planted some tomatoes and cauliflowers on them for this winter. Now the winters arrived and left before they could be of any good. I am sad about that. but the better news is that I had put up two other flowering plants - marigold and dahlia. They seem to have been doing good. Only thing that I have not appreciated, the Dahlia has just one bud as of now and the wait for the flower seems to be longer than I had expected.

Living in a tropical climate we have beautiful flowers all year--if you look at my last few pictures on my discussions you will see some of them plus I plan to do a discussion regarding the flower pictures I have taken just within the last month!

Right now, I have only my snow peas going. I wonder if they have decorative kale at Home Depot.

Those look beautiful! I wonder if the deer would find them tasty up north. We have lovely winter flowers in Florida, all in bloom, but they are summer flowers up north. I only keep flowers and herbs on my lanai in pots. We have to follow rules here in the condo, so no planting for us.

We don't plant anything, the winters are usually brutal. I live in a small town south of Chicago and in the middle of farms. What I have noticed growing and more than one crop a winter I might add is Chives. It amazes me that anything can grow in the winter. And they also grow it all summer long to, our air is very often redolent with an onioney smell.

I love ornamental kale.. They don't survive the hot climes here.. I need to keep them inside the green house with the right temperature.

Winters are too cold here to plant flowers.

They were very popular here hears ago, I haven't seen them very much in recent years. I love the colors. Not much grows here in winter.

they are very pretty - we call them flowering cabbages

We plant grams and succeed to collect some of it.

Those are pretty @LadyDuck . I wish I had the green thumb my mother had. About the only thing I can grow without killing it is cacti.

They are pretty and I have often admired them in other gardens. I live in an apartment, so don't have a flower garden, but I have several African Violets on my window sill.

I feel silly because I didn't know kale was so colorful. I work at a grocery store and we get green stuff in a bag called kale so I just assumed it was green stuff. lol

At this point I am just thinking about what I should plant, I want to take my time. I have always wondered if the ornamental kale is also edible. You know they always say that ornamental peppers are not, but they really are quite nice when I have sampled them. I have chrysanthemums in a planter. They have grown new leaves. Of course they will not bloom in winter, though.

I don't know if it would grow here, as probably to warm. Right now, I'm weeding and weeding, as all that rain really made everything grow fast. I planted some purple water iris and will get photos when they bloom and they are looking good in the pond.

Thanks for sharing this information. Didn't know that there are winter-blooming flowers.

Kale plants are very pretty and hearty. I have kale still sprouting leaves even in the cold weather we have been having.

The myriad of colors in a decorative ornamental kale is amazing. I've never seen one before

@LadyDuck I love the looks of decorative kale they bring color into a winter garden. I also plant lirope.