Garden Bloggers Bloom Day December 2025

Welcome to my December 2025 Garden Bloggers Bloom Day post. (If you are looking for my Music Moves Me post, click here).

On the 15th of each month, bloggers gather to show what is growing in their gardens and/or homes.  In my Zone 6a garden in the Southern Tier of New York, plants sleep under a blanket of snow, including my white Lenten Rose, which blooms early. It was already budded out at the beginning of the month.

 I should have taken a picture before the snow came, but let's pretend the picture below is current because I'm not going to dig into the snow to find a photo op.

 Here is a picture from a previous year showing its buds.  Hopefully, the buds won't be killed before it can bloom (possibly in February).

Otherwise, all I have to offer is this African violet blooming in my dining room.  I guess I've lost my houseplant mojo.  In the past couple of months I've killed two African violets and seriously injured a Thanksgiving cactus.  Another Thanksgiving cactus gave me all of two buds and dropped both of them.

But strangely...back in 2019 I was given a planter by my employer that had various plants including a small Thanksgiving cactus.  The cactus never showed signs of blooming until the other day, when I saw a flower bud on it.

With plants, you just never know.  That's so much of the fun of gardening.

Joining up each 15th of the month with Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens. 

Is anything blooming for you?  If so, why not join us?