I'm still hunting for time to do my fall clean-up and finish mulching the dahlias. We also have only had a couple of hard frosts, and a lot of stuff was sheltered enough to survive them. The "Sunny Border Blue" veronica is still blooming and sheltered rosebud or two is still hanging around. Larkspur and ammi majus that self-sowed are sprouting all over the place, as well as some annual phlox. I have some stuff coming up that I don't recognize as weed or sown seed. Think I will pull most of them out and leave a few to see what they turn into in the spring. I'm thinking some of them may be seeds that I planted 2 falls ago that didn't germinate then---but who knows? I don't keep up with a garden journal or plan like I always intend, and my gardens are extensive enough that I often forget what I did with seeds.

We haven't really had a mild fall, but we sure haven't got the killing frosts that we usually have by now.   

Pansies and violas are putting on a good show in the pots leading up the steps. All I planted in the fall veggie garden were kale, salad greens, leeks and garlic. They are all doing fine.

I traditionally finish my fall clean-up, plant spring bulbs, sow larkspur, and transplant seedlings to better locations over the long New Year's weekend, and plan to do the same this year.

Soon it will be time to set-up the grow lights and start seeds for early spring transplanting.

I have one camillia. It usually starts blooming in very early February, but has several fully opened blooms on it now. It is going to get nailed by the late winter weather.

Janie