In December, I read about garden bloggers posting photos of whatever was blooming in their garden on the 15th of each month. January seemed like a good time to start this practice. I also included our old apple tree, to track its progress throughout the year. Who knows how much time it has left; the poor thing has heart rot.
Most flowers are sparse, with just a few blooming. The alyssum is an exception; it seems to bloom year-round. The snapdragons and some other flowers were looking good until the frosts hit around New Year's. The apple is bare of leaves, with some remaining fruit looking rather like Yule decorations.
A day or two after Bloom Day, I noticed a few more flowers: creeping thyme, primula and thyme-leafed fuchsia. I thought that the TL fuchsia was finished, but there were still a few blossoms. But I decided it might be cheating to add them after the fact.
I was surprised to find a few remaining abelia blooms (left). It tends to provide food for the bees through December.
One of about three early grape hyacinth blooms and one lonely wood hyacinth/b
