Thursday, November 3, 2016

November Has Come


November has come, the last autumnal month, the darkest one, with frost and snow. The bright orange Celastrus's berries between old faded leaves decorate trellises in my garden. They keep hanging on branches all winter, and I especially love them covered with snow hats.


My rhododendrons are red and green now. The evergreens usually lower down their leaves and roll them to minimize water evaporation in frost . The deciduous rhododendrons have been getting reddish and later will drop their leaves. Now, they are healthy before the coldest season comes.


We had already had first frost and snow that fast melted, my pond was covered with thin ice. I must say the first frost surprised me because I did not prepare water lilies to overwinter. Therefore having looked at ice and frozen lily leaves I quickly have put my special boots on and began to drag out the baskets with water lilies up.


It was the second surprise: the biggest red lily had two buds! It was a pity but I had been sure they wouldn't bloom in November cold water and I pruned all leaves and buds and put the baskets in the deepest part of a pond to winter.


The road from my summer cottage was deserted when I had been going back. Some people that had big harvest of apples put them in sacks and leave at the road to anyone could take. I've made many jars of apple jam and I think to do the same or put in a compost tank and the rest to leave for birds.


The low sunny rays went through white trunks of birches, their bare branches. I have been thinking it was one of the last nice autumn days, without rain and wind. 
By the way this night snow has whitened all around and I think I have to go to my garden to clear the paths or perhaps it melts tomorrow, ah?
 
What is the weather in your place now? 
What do you do in November in your garden?

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37 comments:

  1. Our rhododendron has a tew flowers! It's started to turn cold here so some of our summer pots need to go into the greenhouse. Other than that it's tidying up time.

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    1. It's wonderful when rhododendrons bloom in autumn, twice a year, Sue. Your greenhouse is large enough to store some pots inside, I remember its photo.

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    2. It is just one or two flowers that we were surprised to see.

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  2. Nadezda Hello! Where do you keep the water lilies? Here, we already have a bit of snow and pakkastakin is - 3 ° C. Hare shields are also in place. Greetings.

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    1. Oh, these hares! I know they damage a lot during winter time, Anne. I tried to translate 'pakkastakin', is it 'frost at least'?

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  3. Your autumn garden looked lovely! You reminded me to remove the water lilies!
    Greetings

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    1. It's very important to remove nymphaeas for overwinter, yours are very pretty, Ela.

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  4. I think winters are always so long in the far north. Your Celastruc berries look beautiful so do the Rhododendrons. We have a beautiful autumn this year, dry, sunny and almost no wind. Temperatures around 12 degr.C., that's nice. Slowly but sure I'm moving the plants in pots into the greenhouse as Agapanthus and Oleanders. I have not yet dug up all Dahlias but within a week or so all will be inside. I'm sure the weather will change soon.
    Regards, Janneke

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    1. Of course, Janneke, cold season comes, we want it or don't. I'm glad you have nice weather in November, it's good for plants to prepare for winter. My dahlias tubers are rolled in moss sphagnum and put in a box. You had really a nice bouquets of dahlias this summer.

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  5. November has come and it looks beautiful in your garden. The last photo is wonderful too.
    In case Anne doesn't notice your question: In her sentence "pakkastakin" means that in addition to the snow, there are ALSO three degrees of FROST. If you are interested in the Finnish grammar, I'll give you a more detailed explanation. :)
    We have some snow too and in November there's no gardening anymore, only jumping around taking photos of colourful leaves, snow, ice...
    Have a lovely weekend and a beautiful November!

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    1. Thank you Sara for good translation, because Google couldn't help me :)
      When there is snow in my garden I always shovel and throw it in the places of recent planting of bulbs, perennials, etc. I do sure snow can winterize plants.

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  6. I don't have a garden. The weather here is getting colder, slowly...then it gets a little warmer, then colder again. Some days it is 5 celsius, some days it is about 12 celsius. :)

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    1. Yes, I agree Linda the weather changes to cold season. Thank you!

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  7. Your photos are absolutely gorgeous, Nadezda! I love the beautiful Autumn colours! :)

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  8. those photos are so calm so melancholic...

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  9. Lovely autumn photos! Groetjes Hetty

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  10. Here in New England, we are still suffering drought conditions, and the temperatures are staying in the mid 40's Fahrenheit. The gardens are done for and there are leaves inches deep in every direction you look. We've cleared them twice, but you sure couldn't tell by looking out the window. I've cut back most of the perennials and grasses but still have several more hours of work left. Then, I'll just let everything sleep until spring. Your photos are lovely, and I especially like the idea of neighbors sharing crops. I'm sure it makes the end product even sweeter.

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    1. I agree Judy, the work of clearing leaves is endless until the last leaf drop down. Most of my plants are getting sleepy because of night frost.

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  11. Por aquí lloviendo, el frío todavía no llegó bajaron un poco las temperaturas, dicen que volverán a subir en dos días a unos 20 grados. Las flores con la lluvia se estropearon todas. Besitos.

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    1. Yo tambien espero que las temperaturas suben un poco, para ver los colores del otono un poco mas, Teresa :)

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  12. Me encanta este mes Nadezda. Nos regala increibles colores mientras que los árboles se van desnudando.
    es espectacular ver los campos multicolores. Tu rododendro está precioso. Fantásticas tus fotos.
    Buen domingo de otoño 😊
    Besos.

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    1. Gracias, Laura. Tienes razon, es un espectaculo del otoño,pero muy pronto la nieve se cae aqui. El otoño es bastante corto, que lastima!

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  13. È bellissimo il vestito autunnale del rododendro deciduo, qui molto spesso si ammalano e quindi il colore autunnale va perso. Qua in settimana arriverà il freddo e le prime gelate, è tempo di mettere a riposo il giardino :)

    Un saluto e buona domenica!

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    1. Pontos, can't believe that frost will soon come to your place :(, here we had first frost and snow.
      Happy next week!

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  14. I love the birch trees you have in that part of the world. We have them here too, but they are a few hundred miles north of Chicago.

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  15. You've shown some beautiful autumn photos. We've had the wettest October on record with few sunny days. Today, the sun shone and I planted tulip bulbs and started cutting off and bringing inside the tuberous begonias. Many trees have lost their leaves but there are still some that are wearing their rich autumn colors. We could get our first frost any time now but this winter is predicted to be warmer and wetter than usual so perhaps no frost until the end of November. It's sad to see the days growing so short and to know that cold winter will be all to soon here.

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    1. I agree Peter, days are getting shorter and it's very sad especially here in Northern area. I can imagine the warm weather in your place and you planting bulbs, here I've planted then at the mid-October.

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  16. Very interesting post! I always thought the season in my garden is short because of cold climate (near Warsaw). However, there was not such frosts in Poland yet.

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    1. I think the climate in Poland is warmer than here in Saint Petersburg. I'm glad to see you Jolanta on my blog, thanks for your comment!

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  17. I am so sorry I have too dry soil for celastrus - so lovely plant it is!
    Here started proper winter very suddenly. Most plants are still covered with colorful leaves and all it looks really nice - white with colors and no dark mud at all.

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    1. We have real winter here too and very 'suddenly' too :)
      I love celastrus as well, Köögikata, especially in winter.

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  18. Bom dia, sete belas fotos a mostrar a força da maravilhosa natureza.
    Resto de boa semana,
    AG

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