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Garden bloggers bloom: Quick notes
Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for December 2025.
Here in my USDA Hardiness zone 6a garden in central Indiana, we are cold and snow-covered, so the only picture I have of the garden was taken from inside looking out.
The outside temperature on Sunday morning was around -4ÂşF, and today, which is actually the 15th, it was 1ÂşF when I looked at the thermometer.
I’m grateful we have some snow cover with those low temps! But those low temps mean that it isn’t worth looking for blooms outdoors.
Yes, the Christmas roses, Helleborus niger, probably still have their waxy white blooms under that snow, but it’s too cold to go out there and uncover them to see.
Inside, most of the blooms are from the Crown of Thorns plant, Euphorbia milii, which is always flowering.
If you have one of these plants, you’ll never be without flowers!
I also have a Thanksgiving cactus that is finishing up with its big flush of blooms, and a true Christmas cactus that hasn’t produced any flower buds yet.
All the waxed amaryllis bulbs I bought this fall are budded up nicely. I hope to have blooms in a few weeks for Christmas!
Also, I’ve been watching the bloom stalk on my moth orchid. I think it is going to be blooming before the end of the year as well.
Out in the garage, the pelargoniums are holding their own, as I noted on my Substack newsletter, In the Garden with Carol. I also put the snowdrops and reticulated irises that I potted up earlier out there to see if they’ll grow and bloom for me on some dark winter’s day.
And that is it on this cold December day as far as blooms in my garden.
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 comment with a link to let us know what you have to show us.
As Elizabeth Lawrence wrote, “We can have flowers nearly every month of the year.”
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Small note — Nice take on “Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – December 20” — I’ll try that soon.
Small note: Nice point — I noticed that too.
Such a warm note about “Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day- December 20” — delightful. Love this!
Heads up – I second that — very true.
Heads up – I second that — very true.
Heads up – I second that — very true.
Heads up – I second that — very true.
Heads up – I second that — very true.