Garden bloggers bloom. A brief context to set expectations.
Garden bloggers bloom: Quick notes
Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for November 2025.
If I didn’t have the Christmas roses, Helleborus niger, blooming now, this would be a pretty short post.
But who am I kidding? It’s still going to be a pretty short post because here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we’ve already had snow. (Just for a day or so, it is all gone now!)
So from here on out—until crocuses show up in February—it’s going to be Christmas roses for the bloom, plus a few indoor flowers.
But while out mowing up leaves and taking them back to the Vegetable Garden Cathedral to cover those beds on Friday, Nov. 14, which was a beautiful day, I spotted a few plants still in denial, of sorts.
These snapdragons seeded themselves in the patio and have been blooming for a while.
They got snowed on but seemed not to be bothered by it.
Nearby, the very last of the autumn crocuses, Crocus speciosus, are still blooming.
Of course, many of them are done and are not blooming. We take what we can get this time of year.
This silly geranium decided to bloom one more time.
I noticed it while mowing. I liked seeing it. But I don’t expect it to bloom in November every year. It’s joined by a few blooms on the honeyberries in the back garden, which also shouldn’t be blooming now
I also caught a violet with one last bloom.
Of course I did. And yes, it’s in the lawn, and that’s just fine with me.
Elsewhere in the garden, the mums are just about done, but the pansies and violas are still doing well.
I will leave them be until they decide on their own to quit for the season.
And that’s it for this very short Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day post for November.
What’s blooming in your garden as we approach the end of the year? I’d love for you to join in for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day and show us. To participate, just post on your blog, Substack, Instagram or wherever you share about your garden on the Internet, about what’s blooming in your garden on or around the 15th of the month.
Then come back here and leave a link in the Mr. Linky widget and a comment to let us know what you have to show us.
As Elizabeth Lawrence wrote, “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.”
(Update… not sure why Mr. Linky doesn’t work this month. Feel free to put a link in a comment!)
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In November’s soft, cool light, Carol’s garden whispers life. Petals dance on autumn’s sigh, A bloom day’s gentle, quiet strife. Her heart, a nurturer’s song, In every petal, hope is spun. A moment’s pause, a moment’s bloom, In Carol’s hands, life’s joy is won.
whispers cling to the soil, amber leaves crowded at the edge of the gardeners’ pen, where the frost hums a goodbye to green. carol michel’s bloom day arrives— quiet, unstoppable, like ivy drinking dawn on a wall of text. we trudge through the garden’s archive, ink-stained hands brushing against archives of **thyme**, recording what fades just beyond the petals’ grip. still, the page remembers how to fold itself into a thousand winters.