Our flower gardens continued to flower through October.    In November, we started to lose the least hard flowers (nasturtiums, gazania, zinnia, and more), some flowering plants started to go into dormancy, and a few hung on as the temperatures hovered around 0 ºC. The last flowers in bloom in exposed spots were snapdragons (Antirrhinum sp.).    We had quite a few of them, many self-seeded.  … Continue reading →