Garden Bloggers Bloom Day November 2016

This is not your usual Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.

Thirty days ago, my zone 5b Binghamton, New York area front and back yard was full of flowers.

Today, it is a different sight.  Frost has done its work.

Garlic Chive Seed Head

It's necessary work in our climate, but it is painful, nevertheless.

Here is what is left outdoors.

A pot of mums.

Pansies (one of two I fall planted in hopes that they will overwinter, and bloom in the spring.)

Here's the other pansy.

A million bells plant.

Indoors, it is a happier situation.  I have two Christmas (actually, Thanksgiving) Cactus reblooming.

This one is blooming next to an African Violet plant I bought Saturday to replace three others I somehow managed to kill recently.  I don't know what I did wrong but I suspect I may have overfertilized them.

Here's the new victim African violet.

What a wonderful November it has been so far.  But I know it is a matter of time before the snow flies. In fact, snow may be in the forecast later this week. There is no way we will have a repeat of the mild winter of last year.

Or will we?

Come join our hostess, Carol at May Dreams Gardens,  for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day today and on the 15th of each month.  See what is blooming, indoors and out, from all over the world.

Day 15 of NaBloPoMo.